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dispute with mario and other students, and ronald reagan, who was running for governor at this time and made campus protests a major issue in his campaign and who was at odds with clark kerr and mario savio. what you can see in the book is that behind the scenes of many of these well-known events, the fbi was deeply involved with these people and the university of california and was secretly tampering with history trying to influence public policy behind-the-scenes. >> why not give a little background. how did you start this? i remember you as the young undergraduate. >> those were the days. , i was a reporter for the daily california, my editor asked if i was interested interested in what the daily cow had gotten under the freedom of information act. i knew the fbi had been deeply involved in domestic surveillance elsewhere as a result of hearings before the, i knew berkeley had been and i was intrigued to know what the fbi was up to behind-the-scenes at berkeley so i looked at these documents and consulted a role, and the vietnam committee, researching those stories, i realize the

to be in a great dispute with mario savio and other students, and then ronald reagan who was running for governor at this time and made campus protests a major issue in the his campaign -- in his campaign and who was at odds with both clark kerr and mario savio. and what you can see in the book is that behind the seens of many of these -- scenes of many of these well known events, the fbi was deeply involved with these people and with the university of california and was secretly tampering with history, trying to influence public policy behind the scenes. >> so why don't you give a little background, how did you start this quest? what got you going? because i remember you as a young undergraduate living next door to me on herr street. >> yes. >> innocent. [laughter] >> those were the days. well, i first got interested in this when i was a student here at berkeley in the late '70s. i was a reporter for the daily californian, and my editor asked me if i was interested in taking a look at some fbi documents that the daily cal had gotten under the freedom of information act, and i jumped at the chanc

an economic standpoint that produces more prosperity, how would works under ronald reagan and how jack kennedy did that. but you don't hear the same argument coming from this administration. they can't argue the fact is because the facts do not back them up. they also can't come forward and have an honest discussion about what their objectives are whereas conservatives will argue our objective is to elevate everybody by increasing prosperity, by and reaching the private sector from overbearing not reasonable but overbearing the government regulations so that everybody can prosper. we believe there is an unlimited devotee for prosperity that it's a fixed amount, it's appalling and free but it's a slice of it and is never going to get any bigger that is and how we see things. but you don't hear the left articulating a response to that discussion because what obama wants to do is force the redistribution, and if he were honest about that, honest about his goal of not just equalizing everyone, but bringing them down because that is what happens when you try to equalize income you bring everybody d

. and ronald reagan institutionalized it. he founded the white house office of political affairs which every president since has had, and that's given us the situation we have now where you are used to having the key mpaign advisers like david axelrod and david plus and karl rove who are in the white house on the government payroll. they are there to help the president do his job, but there are certainly the concerns that you have a perception of a politicized white house and a politicized presidency. >> brendan doherty is a professor of the u.s. naval academy. this is his most recent book th rise of the president's permanent campaign, university of kansas is the publisher. professor, do states and aren't battleground states, do they ge the short shrift because of this? they do. they certainly do. and in chapter four of the book i look at places the president' never go or at least rarely. the states that systematicall neglected by the partie

to honshu. the uss ronald reagan, the first effort was to save lives. eventually it would come underneath the plume and protect the radiation in the atmosphere. next slide. this eventually became a hubs and spoke approach to providing support in northeast honshu. as we provide that support, what you are looking is our own way of working with u.s. aid. these other rapid response teams, developing a picture of who is in need so that we can have a better understanding of situational awareness on the ground and act on that information. it allowed us to address the directed needs of the people of japan. what the people wanted was to return to normal as soon as possible. meaning they wanted to clear the schools. they wanted to address the human needs of the population. which meant showers. it also meant providing use it to help to relieve the tension and the pressure that had built up on people. now, to the consequent management. while the humanitarian assistance operation is in place, we need to get through an understanding of what goes on. in other words, we needed to build a reactor. we need

george bush had moment against ronald reagan, until in the debate in new hampshire, there was a moment where reagan looked strong. >> i am paying for this microphone. >> that moment helped change the campaign. >> some o some of them you can . >> read my lips. no new taxes. >> the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull, lipstick. >> other ones, you got to depend on your candidate seizing a moment you didn't expect to happen. >> there you go again. >> most moments so far this election have been poorly phrased comments. >> if you've got a business, you didn't build that. somebody else made that happen. >> i like being able to fire people that provide services to me. >> they'll put y'all back in chains. >> the media call those gaffes, but often the media don't know. when ed musky lost the '072 primary because he looked like he teared up defending his wife, everyone said candidates can't career, because that's week, but then in 2008 hillary clinton cried. >> you know, i have so many opportunities from this country. >> she began to tear up. >> don't want to fall backwards. >> she sho

in job creation and last night's debate. governor romney explaining how ronald reagan's economic recovery created twice as many jobs as president obama's has been exactly the same period of time. the governor argued that he would use some of the very same approaches. the amount between that period, the equivalent. lack of time, ronald reagan's recovery created twice as many jobs as this presents recovery. 5 million jobs doesn't even keep up with population growth. the only reason the unemployment rate seems a little lower today is because of all the people that have dropped out of the work force. the president has tried, but his policies have not worked. he is great as a speaker and describing his plans and visions, that's wonderful. except that we have a record to look at. and that record shows that he had just has not been able to cut the deficit and put in place reforms for medicare and social security to preserve them and to get us the rising incomes that we need. the median income is down. 23 million americans out of work. that is what this election is about. it is about who can get

? caller: yes. ronald reagan is going to be remembered for that forever. he had a great sense of humor. host: a comment on twitter. however says a sense of humor is very important. obama often makes me laugh. he has a great delivery. here is what john says -- having a good writers is not the same as having a sense of humor. thank you for all your calls, coming up next we will. campaign 2012 and a foreign- policy. where the candidates stand. and later on jonathon turley of george washington university law school. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ >> i have to be honest with you. i love these debates. these things are great. and i think it is interesting that the president still doesn't have an agenda for a second term. do not you think that it is time for him to finally put together a vision of what he will do next four years if he is elected? he has to come up with this over the weekend. there is only one debate left. >> let us recap what we learned last night. his tax plan doesn't add up. jobs.lan doesn't create deficit deduction plan adds to the deficit. everybody here has heard of the

that was at the end of the association between the republican party and me, i think ronald reagan best put it when he said, years ago, when he was a democrat, did you know ronald reagan was a democrat? he was. as ronald reagan put it, he did not leave the democratic party. the democratic party left him. but let me assure you that the republican party, in 1980, when i was elected in the senate, was a vastly different republican party than it was as we moved into the 21st century. when the stimulus vote came up, i was convinced that if we did not have an confusion of funding, that we would be heading for a 1930-style depression. we had seen a few months earlier, when george w. bush was the president, that he came up with a $700 billion package to assist the banking and automotive industries. $700 billion was a twin brother to what president obama came up with a few months later. a hundred and $78 billion -- $878 billion. the bush wrote -- the bush program was voted down. this got me to the stock market brought down 700 points in september of 2008. -- the stock market brought down 700 points in septembe

that is the model for making a big thing happen. amazingly, think of this, in 1986 when ronald reagan put on tax reform on the table, you had a bill that cut the top income tax rate down to 28 percent, it got rid of the special interest loopholes and here is the amazing part, that bill passed the united states senate 97-3. that is bipartisanship. call me optimist but i think there is the opportunity to get that deal. >>neil: conservatives were critical of ronald reagan for giving away allowances and breaks. but he did so to get a deal. that was called "negotiating." >>guest: in the end it was a great deal. the only problem was what has happened in the subsequent 25 years we keep adding to the tax code all of the garbage and all of the termites that are destroying the tax system. i like the idea of a reform and i would not, i do think there is a chance we could get entitlement reform which is harder than the tax reform. >>neil: i think you are right, steve. thank you very much. >>guest: optimistic today. >>neil: call it a demand for apple's iphone with sales chiling more than 1 percent, with the

where i think the president needs to focus on more. you hear con strabt reflections on ronald reagan governor romney said that last night and ronald reagan led us out of that recession. he didn't mention, tamron, that ronald reagan had tip o'neill. so he had a congressional partner who understood that the country was in peril and needed help. but what president obama has had is an obstructionist congress that care more about damaging him than they do about the damage that the country's suffering. the president has to lay that out. he has the american jobs act. he will talk about it more and more. it would generate 1 million jobs. republicans in congress including john boehner fought him tooth and nail on fundamental items, tamron, like infrastructure and could have yielded another 1 million jobs. we know that infrastructure is how you put people back to work. >> right. >> the american recovery and reinvestment act, 10% went to inf infrastructure and generated 35% of the verifiable jobs. we don't have a tip o'neill because the republicans want to defeat barack obama. he has to lay tha

of the union message. today we're used to that. that was not done until ronald reagan did it for the first time and every president since then has used these people as an example of their political goals and their philosophy. so i find that one. close to home i did a biography of brian lamb. i've got a lot of work with educators and c-span people kept saying, what is the real brian lamb lake? and he did not want a biography done. and i pumped him and and i pumped him i finally got a contract to do one. i came in and i said well, what do you think? and he said well, i guess that lets you do one. i can't say no. the station is committed to open access to information. how can a close things down? and he didn't interfere, kind of open doors for me, give me a list of high school friends and buddies, so that was kind of fun to do. prior to that i did a book that looked at individuals who change national policy. so it's called citizen democracy and is a bunch of profiles of an elect, unappointed individuals who went out and created things like major legislation because of their action. >> host: i teac

carter left office and just after ronald reagan had taken his oath of office. >> was that the incident all? >> of course not. obviously this was the last slap at jimmy carter. they figured it cost him his presidency know they were going to deny him this satisfaction of seeing our release while he was still president. there is a conspiracy theory that says there he was in fact coordination between the iranian side and the republican ronald reagan campaign of 1980 to prevent us from being released before the election. it's an interesting theory. i've never seen anything, any documentation. i would think after 30 some years something, if there was anything to eat something would have come out. >> where did you fly out of on what kind of plane? do you remember seeing your fellow hostages and what was your reaction? >> these things i remember well. as i get older sometimes i can't remember where i left my car keys but i can see things of 32 years ago i remember well. they took us to the airport in tehran. in buses i think i was blindfolded, but i think they shoved me into the bathroom of th

have been good at this. booming their way out, ronald reagan or in the case of bill clinton you can lay a path, chart a direction. you don't have to overnight start telling people i'm going to eradicate that 16 trillion immediately, but if you show the markets, for example, the way, jon, that you are on a way to getting this under control they'll reward you. bill clinton found that out. in the case of ronald reagan if you can show leery markets that tax cuts can in and of themselves create a boom and we know then the government took a lot of that revenue and spent it, so the boom was quickly washed away in terms of the revenue, but we do know that you can make a compelling case on the stump that this can go your way. if you can present an argument that what you're about to do will set the wheels in motion for an improvement and the markets buy it and by and large those in the know are beginning to buy it, folks will get more confident, you'll see a return that looks favorable. bill clinton found it out, ronald reagan found it out and the trend becomes your friend and you then start to b

carter was more popular and better remembered by americans than ronald reagan. 20 years later you say how could that have happened? can you talk about the reagan experience and what lessons presidents can draw from that in terms of their own reputations in history. >> oftentimes if you have one president that the party looks back to, oftentimes there's not been later presidents or candidates that really captured the party's imagination. if people were in love with george w. bush or some republicans in love with mitt romney, i think you'd hear less about ronald reagan than you do. same thing about fdr. you went to a democratic convention and you mentioned fdr you and you think it's almost recent. >> to this point of how the legacy comes about, how much is actually based on the merit of what the president accomplished in his term and how much is based on luck? i'll give you an example. it looks right now like we're in the beginning of a recovery. housing starts are up and unemployment is down. whoever wins the election is likely to preside over a recovery. >> right. and will get the benefit

. ronald reagan used to say peace through strength. you can't be strong without a strong economy. the worst thing this president has done is created a reduction strength and the military strength and will of this united states can and with that loss of respect, what we have now is a more unstable and a more dangerous world as a result of this president's failure. >> greta: all right. no question about it, he reminds everybody of it all the time, which he's entitled to do so, because it was bad. do you deny that he's -- i mean, what has he not accomplished in light of the fact that he got -- you know, he walked into office day one with a terrible economy? >> look, ronald reagan picked up a horrible economy, probably even worse in some rests than rs than president obama did, and within two years it was turning around. in the last two years of his first term ronald reagan created 15 million jobs. and president obama's bragging about his 5 million jobs, which barely makes up -- in fact, doesn't make up for what he loves thlostthe first two yearsy makes up for population growth. this president r

for issues you can find consensus on. that was ronald reagan's way of bringing people to his perspective. please don't go in there and think about thee most insinned yarr issue the nation is thoroughly split on and use that as the core issue to bring people to conservatism. i would talk about free market economics, about lowering that -- this is the one argument i would start with -- how ronald reagan, when he was president, with a democrat congress, by the way, how he lowered that highest income tax bracket from 70% -- it was 70%, the government thought hay had a right to 70 #% of the income. obama thinks it's 40%, and that's just the beginning. 70%, reagan was able to lower it to 28%, and the left would say, oh, my gosh, the government's not going to have revenue. what are you doing about the deficit? income to the federal government, revenue to the federal government doubled, doubled for that income tax sÑrá works. why? because more people were free to try to achieve prosperity. there were more assets in the private sector for businesses to grow and expand and businesses were encour

his second term. ronald reagan has sinship the second time. >> jennifer: but in a townhall setting, i think this is a really tricky dance. i think people are expecting president obama to come out punch, punch punch. and it's a fine balance. >> i think questions work better than attacks. you know, how are you going to do that without doing this? there are questions you can ask. why haven't you trusted the american people with the details? are you still beating your wife? are you still hiding your tax plan? >> jennifer: according to the democracy core poll 53% of voters apparently care more about the candidate's plan for the future, and 36% base their vote on records. so should obama focus more on policy and what a second term would look like and feel for the american voters rather than attack mitt romney's character? >> it's not the legislated details, it's why we're going to get further in the second term than the last term. once the patient is out of bed, it starts moving faster? is it the second four years of a recovery are always better than the first four? h

of ronald reagan and harry truman, i think of the idea of peace through strength, american credibility, a strong economy that gives america the credibility it needs in china and elsewhere in the world. if romney pins him as another bush, he's in trouble. >> well, i think romney has to be careful not to just go with the platitudes. >> should he fight on benghazi? >> absolutely. the problem with benghazi was not that obama went to las vegas the next day for a fundraiser. >> so what is it? >> the problem with benghazi is that the administration, first of all, misled the country for two weeks about what happened, or apparently misled, or it didn't know what happened for two weeks, which is just as bad. it didn't come clean about the concerns about security that happened before anniversary of 9/11, insisting the attacks on 9/11 were just caused by a youtube video. >> where are the other vulnerabilities on foreign policy for the president? >> well, i think the vulnerabilities -- just to carry on from what we've been saying here, the primary vulnerability is that the president, as he said, i

, themselves. and the debt barely a worry creating millions of jobs under ronald reagan but growing concern about a congress that was spending all that extra tax revenue coming in. and then some. like scandal, something called iran contra and now benghazi right now. there are big differences between 1987 and now. this is less of me than, a lot more of that debt now. back then, china was a rising star. now we are the ones looking like a shooting star. back then, we got off the bring, the depression folks feared never came. today, we are weeks away from another brink and at the least the recession is now unavoidable. still thing it can't happen? take it from someone who was there. they said the same thing back then, as well. we are all over it now. with ted who lived through it, ron paul who fear as repeat, and a former chairman who can prevent it. we begin with the man called "teddy." you were this that day. what was it like in. >> it was the most scary day i have spent on the trading floor, in approximately 43 years. there have been more emotional days after 9/11 but that was the day that w

when taxes have been cut, ronald reagan and then george w. bush, that in fact the debt went up, and the revenues did not. we had a constant national debt from 1950 to 1980. the national debt stayed the same, and the democrats were in control of both houses of congress and often as not in the house. ronald reagan in eight years, according to this economic theory put it into place and the debt tripled in that time. >> jennifer: and you can talk to paul krugman about this. he is always on a rant about understanding when you cut taxes you cut revenue. and the gop is the party of fiscal responsibility. why is that a whopper? >> it's connected to the idea that cutting taxes increases revenue. that's actually the most important thing for them if you cut taxes, because that allows them to do something that is very, very popular with the public. the democratic party for years and years and years we created civil rights and put a man on the moon. all of these things when the democrats dominated the government. i think conservatives understand that to win power they n

. but they've tried to do is get behind the string and they've tried to let this from the ronald reagan playbook and say there's actually a ronald reagan advertisement that ran in 1980 against jimmy carter. and if you listen to the transcript of that advertisement, you think it's the obama administration's weakness on foreign policy. unwillingness to stand up for america overseas. i think what you're going to see that i present, although i don't have confidence romney will do it off. but i think no matter what it's afghanistan or syria come especially to hear in the middle east. the administration is the first one to have abandoned this idea of peace through strength. >> host: guy taylor has a piece in the "washington times" recently that romulo channeled reagan in world affairs. our gessert guy taylor, state department for "washington times" and matthew lee covers the state department for "the associated press." let's get to the phones and he was you have to say. keith reports that arkansas, republican line. good morning. >> caller: yes, good morning. i'm glad to be on c-span this morn

for every president since ronald reagan, said, "invading iraq in response to 9/11 would be like franklin roosevelt invading mexico in response to pearl harbor." that's what we have here. and what we need now is a president who understands how to bring these other countries together to recognize their stakes in this. they do have stakes in it. they've always had stakes in it. the arab countries have a stake in not having a civil war. the european countries have a stake in not having total disorder on their doorstep. but this president hasn't even held the kind of statesman-like summits that pull people together and get them to invest in those states. in fact, he's done the opposite. he pushed them away. when the secretary general kofi annan offered the united nations, he said, "no, no, we'll go do this alone." to save for halliburton the spoils of the war, they actually issued a memorandum from the defense department saying, "if you weren't with us in the war, don't bother applying for any construction." that's not a way to invite people. >> ninety seconds. >> that's totally absurd. of co

-- was ronald reagan's theme. ronald reagan did not go to war with the soviets. he was actually the one that convinced the soviets that it was pointless to go to war with us, or to try to outbuild us. the real issue here is, how credible is the united states going to be? you want to pivot to asia. you want to cut the defense budget. you tell me how those two add up, because i cannot figure it out. >> let me follow up on the iran point for just a moment. i ask both of you, what should the ultimate objective of u.s. policy in iran be? should it be a non-nuclear iran? should it be a regime change? can we live with this government in iran if it is not pursuing a nuclear weapon? >> the president has said that we do not accept iran with a nuclear weapon. there are a lot of other issues on the agenda with iran -- support for international terrorists, cracking down on its people, but it seems to me about the issues we are most focused on, among many, it is the nuclear issue and preventing iran from having a nuclear weapon. the governor has taken a multitude of positions on iran, including agree

older, piers, we do change our views. ronald reagan -- >> he was my age when he said that. >> ronald reagan -- >> it wasn't like he was young. this is what i find a bit odd. he was my age. i'm 47. i think he was about 47. it was 1994. that's what i find to be odd about it. he wasn't young. i couldn't imagine changing my belief about something like abortion at this age. >> sure. i think as we get older, i think we do change. when i say older, i'm talking about every year as we mature -- >> don't you think politicians do it for other reasons? are you not slightly suspicious -- >> no, i think governor romney, what you see with him is what you get. this is what he believes. this is his position. i appreciate his position where he is today on abortion. i appreciate the fact where he stands on the biblical definition of marriage between a man and woman because this is a huge issue in this election, whether people want to admit it or not, for evangelical christians, for churches across the board in the united states, this is the number one issue. >> gay marriage? >> the definition of marria

when tip o'neil and the president of the united states, republican ronald reagan cut to extend life of social security. he wasn't in the room. more explaining on the vice president on that score as well. >> bret: more on that later. arguably the most divisive issue in the last presidential debate was the romney tax plan. tonight chief national correspondent jim angle has a reality check. >> the debate over the romney plan for 20% across the board tax cuts is just as sharp on the campaign trail as it was in the vice presidential debate. >> not mathematically possible. >> it is mathematically possible. it's done before. >> it has never been done before. >> it's been done a couple of times. >> similar efforts have been tried before, such as the bowles-simpson commission and group called tax policy center argued romney could not implement his plan without raising taxes on the middle class. accusation president clinton is selling hard. >> the effect will be to give people with incomes over $3 million a $250,000 tax cut. raise tax cuts on the middle income people $2,000. >> one from the t

did not say anything about ronald reagan. you said two things. you talked about ronald reagan and the ideas of the republican. >> well, i was working on those streets watching those folks see their jobs shiftover seas, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board of walmart. i was fighting these fights. i was fighting these fights. >> there's no doubt this president can throw a punch when he wants to. the question tonight is, just how hard should it be. joining me live from hofstra university, site of tonight's debate, is congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, chairwoman of the democratic national committee. thank you for coming on the show, madame chairwoman. >> thank you, al. >> the president -- >> good to be with you. >> the president says, we'll see some more, quote, activity tonight. what do you expect? >> i think we'll see president obama talk about his clear vision for moving america forward. his plan to create a million manufacturing jobs, his plan to cut tuition increases in half, his plan to make sure we can hire 100,000 new math and science teachers, but we'll

netanyahu. governor romney likes to invoke the ronald reagan mantra peace through strength. even though he talks tougher about iran some analysts say the bluster would only last until his first briefing by the cia and the joint chief of staffs. >> who will basically lay out their risk to reward ratio on the issue of what, in fact, an american strike could accomplish and what the complexities are and his political advisors will remind him that at a time when he is trying to repair the american economy, which is priority number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, that the last thing we need is a spike in oil prices or a plunge in financial markets. >> the debate gives governor romney a second chance to challenge the president on his response to the attack on the u.s. consulate at benghazi that cost the lives of ambassador chris stevens and three other americans. some analysts think the administration's confused response more than anything mr. romney has done explains why mr. obama lost much of his edge on polls on foreign policy recently. >> i think this unbelievable fiasco, this coverup, scandal in benghazi

. should ronald reagan not have talked about it for 444 days? the fact is we were in the middle of a mess in the middle east, and the mess keeps evolving. you just gave a good example. i don't care whether you are talking about the diplomatic security service or the marine corps. the obama administration failed to protect the consulate, failed to respond to the request, rejected demands to get help. the ambassador was personally worrying about not only his own life, but violence and the obama administration did nothing. that offends the president, then that is his problem, and he has to get over it. >> i feel like we've had a predebate debate. thank you for coming. bill richardson, former speaker newt gingrich, thank you for being here. >> next up, this red state turned blue in 2008 and helped put president obama in the white house. four years later it's up for grabs again. battleground virginia is next. [music] see life in the best light. transitions® lenses automatically filter just the right amount of light. so you see everything the way it's meant to be seen. experience life well lit

. >> reporter: swept into congress under ronald reagan in 1980, specter's views supporting abortion rights, immigration reform and gun control made him too liberal for the tea party movement. >> i just don't believe you. >> reporter: under assault he bolt to the democratic party. >> my change in party will enable me to be re-elected. >> reporter: but specter lost. >> been a great privilege to serve the people of pennsylvania. >> reporter: he knew controversy well. at the warren commission, he wrote the single bullet theory, that explained how lee oswald, acting alone assassinated president kennedy. in 1991, spekcter angered many women over the spectacle over anita hill. >> the testimony of professor hill in the morning was flat-out perjury. >> reporter: but specter is also remembered for his whit and devotion to the senate. >> i leave with great optimism for the future of our country and great optimism for the continuing vital role of the united states senate and the governance of our democracy. >> reporter: arlen specter was 82. >>> president obama released a statement honoring the late s

quite frequently was ronald reagan and ronald reagan didn't go to war with the soviets, she was the one that convinced the soviets whether it was pointless to go to war with us and try to hold build us. the issue here is how credible. because i can't figure it out. >> to follow-up on that iran planned for just a moment and ask what should the ultimate objective of u.s. policy in iran be, should it be a non-nuclear iran, a regime change, can we live with the government in iran if it isn't pursuing a nuclear weapon. >> he said we would not accept it on for the agenda with iran support for international terrorism and that it seems to me was the issue we were most focus on it as a nuclear issue in preventing iran for having a nuclear weapon. including agreeing with the president and that was exactly the position that he should take changing at and taking an evolving position on iran. i do want to come back to a couple things doug says about the defense spending. the sequester i don't think that you were in the room for that as far as i can tell and a was an interesting story to tell and as

in a war in the middle east with ronald reagan. he got out of the middle east and kept his eye on the main event. lou: where do we go from here? >> i don't think it stops here. what is our policy in the middle east? guaranteed to me we will not have anymooe. what we will see going forward is more attacks against americans, it can kill an american investor and nobody does anything. lou: the reality seems to be our allies have decided to receive, france this administration, deciding not to discuss the implosion round the euro zone again in the name of electoral interest in the name of this kt mcfarland, thank you for being with us. we will be taking it up with the "a-team." new polls show governor romney closing the gap with certain key voter groups. we'll take a look at how romney is turning the heads of women and hispanic voters in tonight's chalk talk. president obama prepping a way for tomorrow's debate, governor romney reportedly skipping debate prep to show up at a paul ryan campaign event. is he getting a little cocky? we will talk to stephen hayes next. look, if you have copd like me

and it was quite a recovery. ronald reagan was president, and he surely gets some of the credit for that, but it is an interesting question -- who you attribute that strong boom to? paul volcker gets a lot of the credit, along with ronald reagan. host: talk about how the fed is working now against the way it was working when mr. paul volcker was the chairman as far as moving the economy forward and getting the kind of response out of this recession that they got out of the recession in the reagan administration. guest: these are different times and the federal reserve is fighting a different problems. then, you would have 10%, up 11% inflation. that was the deeply entrenched problem in the economy. trying to defeat that was the overriding goal paul volcker, chairman of the fed. that is why they hiked rates. they got short-term interest rates up to 20%, establishing credibility in fighting the inflation. the problem now with high unemployment, still around 8% even after all of these years after the recovery began. inflation is much less of a problem. we are in a range the fed is aiming fo

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debates on the same subject from our archives. watch the 1984 debate between ronald reagan and walter monday daily and from 1988, vice president george bush and massachusetts governor michael dukakis. it's starting at 7:00 p.m. eastern here on espn. >> well the issue of an internet sales tax has reared up again and in fact the u.s. congress and many states are looking at this issue and that's our topic this week on "the communicators." we want to start off by talking with the chairman of the california state board of equal ligse jerome horton. mr. horton, california has recently changed how it managed or its taxation policies when it comes to the internet, hasn't it? >> yes, peter, it has. it broadened the definition of what is taxable in california to include online retailers who meet certain criteria. >> now, said you broadened. how was it before and now who is included? >> prior to the law, the sales tax didn't apply to companies that had affiliates and worked through various different groups here in the state of california. the law broadened the definition of who actually qualitie

marines in the bar rackracks in beirut, le, under president ronald reagan. these attacks are part of living in a dangerous world. >> jamie: joining me now is the ageanchor of "fox news sunday" s chris wallace. does senator dur whip wan durbie american people to accept the deaths of four americans slaughtered at the consulate as part of the living in a dangerous world? >> no. i was struck by that comment. he goes on and one of the things he says is that there's going to be an investigation, and we shouldn't rush to judgment, and we should wait to see what the investigation shows. i, then, say well, you know, a sinic or a skeptic might suggest that that investigation will end two weeks -- we'll get the results of it twho week two it r the election. there are some politics at play. we're in the final 16 days of a campaign. what do you expect? >> it's interesting that senator graham said the consulate should have been closed before, during, and after. that scene is completely contaminated for any t to go and do any legitimate investigation. it's basically impossible. before, is he ref

. >> and how does -- bill, how does romney handle that? >> read ronald reagan's answer, when the first question was, governor reagan, your opponent accused offing being a risk taker, you're likely to get the us into war. reagan said i'm for peace constraints. i've got children and grandchildren and the last thing i want to do is see them fight abroad. here's why my policies are less risky. >> and here's what obama would say, what exactly ever the differences between my policies and yours? even with regard to israel, the answer is not much. >> that's a win for romney. >> you can't have it both ways, a romney a war among monger? >> that's not a problem. he'll say if the iranians want to negotiate, i'll be a tougher negotiator than president obama. >> well, thank you, panel. focus, you don't need to watch the debate tomorrow night because you saw it here. check out panel plus where the group picks up on our website, foxnewssunday.com. we'll post the video before noon eastern and follow us on twitter @"fox news sunday." next, we go on the trail. [ male announcer ] this is sheldo whose long day sett

was also a difficult relations with israel. as president, he did not head in a 1980, ronald reagan was seen as an alternative, also john andersen missing for carter, which is not the president from the jewish perspective. and so what happened in 1980 was reagan got 39% of the jewish vote. you might say he lost the jewish vote. was so great about that? for republican to get 39% is a huge achievement. in fact, over the appear that i'm talking about, the high water mark of a 39%, below-market 11%. but that range of 20% in the low part of love into the high 39 is really the range of jewish support for israel. so people says remnick went to get the jewish vote? and a supporter from a come adviser to romney. he's not going to get the jewish vote. but if he gets in the mid-to high 30s, that's a good sign. and so was ronald reagan company sought three consecutive elections, where the republicans got 30% are hired the jewish vote. reagan, reagan and bush in 88. it's not coincidently the republicans won all elections. reagan was outspoken in support of israel. that's what israel is now in the cold wa

read the ronald reagan answer, the first and only debate in 1908 the first question was, your opponent accuses you of being a warmonger, and reagan gave a fantastic answer, i'm for peace through strength, i have children and grandchild, and the last thing i want to see them do is fight abroad and i have seen wars and here is why my policies are less risky than the current democratic president. >>juan: obama would say, what exactly are the differences between our policies even with regard to israel and the answer will come back, not much. >> he cannot have it both ways, for romney. on iran, mitt romney figures it will it nab a problem. if iranians want to negotiate i will negotiate but i will be tougher than president obama who has failed in his negotiations. >>chris: folks, you do not need to watch the debate tomorrow night because you saw it here. we will pick up with the discussion on our website with a video posted before noon eastern and follow us on twitter. next, we go on the trail. ahh, the new fabrics, put it on my spark card. [ garth ] why settle for less? the spiked heels are

between jimmy carter and ronald reagan and ronald reagan went onto a route. i don't think that is apt. i think president obama did fairly well at the debate this week. romney has the momentum. it could come down to the last week, some type of october surprise. romney has the edge at the moment. jon: it could come down to differences in voting patterns between men and women. jenna was talking about this last hour. men as an election threat have long favored governor romney by several points, but president obama's advantage among women was greater, and there are more female voters. what happened to that advantage? >> well, that's what democrats are kind of shaking their heads that in the first debate obama didn't court the female vote, and he did certainly this week. so that was a significant change. as a result mitt romney has made gains in that demographic. so that's what they are fighting over. they are fighting over the female vote in these battleground states but still romney -- he's got a lot of work ahead of him. he's got to win i think ohio, virginia and florida. i think he has to

simplification, whether under john f. kennedy or ronald reagan, where you saw both parties come together, lower marginal rates, broader rates, that's how you get growth. >> that was called raising -- taxes. if you lower the rate and broaden the base and get the same amount of revenue and say you're going to close loopholes, loopholes are deductions by some business or entity that wants them. you're requiring that entity or group to pay more in taxes. you are raising taxes. mr. romney is raising taxes, mr. obama is talking about raising taxes and so are you. i've been through this before. i went through it with the state of texas. we tried to close loopholes, exemptions and deductions, lower property tax rates and every group in the state said you're raising taxes. you're raising tacks on us. do it to somebody else but not me. the big shock will be if you get elected to the united states senate, if you try to do that, the u.s. chamber, grover norquist who you pledge your support to, will jump out and immediately say, you're raising taxes. six year fls now, someone will be sitting in this chair a

. watch the 84 debate between ronald reagan and walter mondale. from 1988, george bush and massachusetts gov. michael dukakis. that is all starting at 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> the candidates are heidi heitkamp and rick berg. this is a little less than one half hour. >> welcome to the continuing coverage of election 2012. this is the debate where north seat.a is a u.s. senate sen i am here with berg and heidi heitkamp. thank you so much for being here. both candidates will have a bottom in the closing statement. there will be topics as i mean where there will be discussion and debate. >> thank you. i would like to thank everyone watching. this election may be the most important election in our lifetime. if we did i get our country back on track on the road to growth and prosperity, my children will not inherit the same country we do. i will fight against barack obama's failed policies and fight for the idea that people from north dakota should make decisions about their family and their opportunities. i served in the best legislature in the country. we crafted policy that has

, ronald reagan was leaving office and his vice president ran as the republican nominee against michael dukakis. this debate on defense and foreign-policy issues was the second of their two meetings that year. it lasts about one hour and a half. >> the colleagues on the panel ann compton of abc news. margaret warner of news week magazine, and andrea mitchell of nbc news. the candidates are, vice president george bush, the republican nominee and governor michael dukakis, the democratic nominee. [applause] for the next 90 minutes we'll be questioning the candidates designed by representatives of the two campaigns. however, there are no restrictions on the questions that my colleagues and i can ask this evening and the candidates have no prior knowledge of our questions. by agreement between the candidates, the first question goes to governor dukakis. you have two minutes to respond. governor if kitty dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer? >> no, i don't, bernard. and i think you know i opposed the death penalty. i don't see any eviden

on the personalty and charisma, that things would be different in the world. he go beak to ronald reagan -- back to ronald reagan. peace through strength. when the joint chiefs of staff say the greatest threat to security is our debt and the president added $5 trillion to our national dead, the president has weakened our country. >> tomorrow night both sides defend their records and challenge them 90 minutes. thank you very much for coming in. >> thank you. >>> keep it here for the latest on the libya investigation. at 3:00 and 10:00, you do not want to admit bret baier's special with the interview of the u.s. embassy site security team. >>> moments ago we told you about a shooting in brookville, wisconsin as a salon. this is the first video we're getting. fox spoke with a manager across the street and she said a woman in the salon ran to the brookfield square mall. she said her father or stepfather was the shooter and several victims had been shot. this is the first video coming in. as soon as we get more details on the victims and what may have led to the shooting. we'll let you know. >>> next

what this guy named ronald reagan might bring us. think about what you need if you're looking for a job in the next four years. you need someone that knows how to create jobs. you need someone that understands budgets, that understands thousand live within our means. understands what it means to have personal freedom and personal responsibility. you know, i've been incredibly blessed and humbled to be associated with this sweet man you might know, his name is dr. ron paul. and i was so -- it was an amazing experience for me to have that opportunity to co-chair his campaign, with one of your professors, senator jim forsyth, he tried to be here today. some of you know him. but the paul family opened up to us. i know you guys supported him fully. what i see today in rand paul is so much of his father. as we're transitioning at the presidential level to what i believe we need to do in order for you to have a job, in order for you to make sure you have your own future, and it's not even about your future because a big part of what makes you all, as college graduates, is the same type of tran

and how this works out for them? >> in the first debate when he was an ibt, ronald reagan challenged by walter mondale, did not do well. he did much better in the second debate and went on to win reelection decisively in 1984. the challenge for president obama this time, he didn't do well the first time, romney did very well, will be for him to come back in the second date dee bait wish is a town hall format. it's a little more complicated because undecided voters will stand up and ask a question. so the room is a little bit different, the atmosphere is a little bit different. we'll see if the president comes through this time and republic spo -- responds, and answers passionately and for the righ-- forthrightly. >> no one has the control over the audience and what the audience members will ask, correct? >> well, there is a format that they've announced. our own candy crowley is the moderator. i checked to see because there's been some confusion over the past 24, 48 hours of what that format is. when they announced this second debate at the end of july, the presidential debate commis

between winning and loo losing. will he elected scott brown, and ronald reagan here. can you force them to do whatever. i don't believe they're. you can't force how they vote. historically a whole lot of democratic union members vote republic in massachusetts. >> bill: all right. thank you very much. very interesting story. factor moves along this evening. bernie goldberg on whether cnn debate moderator candy crowley is unfair and unbalanced. tomorrow night, is she the wisest choice? jesse watters asking the folks why they are giving money to president obama. >> what policy is he implementing to get us out of this hole, specifically? >> you know, he's -- >> bill: yes, indeed. we hope you stay tuned to those reports. look, if you have copd like me, you know it can be hard to breathe, and how that feels. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps control my copd symptoms by keeping my airways open for 24 hours. plus, it reduces copd flare-ups. spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that does both. spiriva handihaler tiotropium bromide inhalati

elected scott brown, and ronald reagan here. can you force them to do whatever. i don't believe they're. you can't force how they vote. historically a whole lot of democratic union members vote republic in massachusetts. >> bill: all right. thank you very much. very interesting story. factor moves along this evening. bernie goldberg on whether cnn debate moderator candy crowley is unfair and unbalanced. tomorrow night, is she the wisest choice? jesse watters asking the folks why they are giving money to president obama. >> what policy is he implementing to get us out of this hole, specifically? >> you know, he's -- >> bill: yes, indeed. we hope you stay t >> bill: in the rolling with carolla segment tonight, the space shuttle winding its way through the city of angels, smoke ares the new lepers, joining us from burbank, california, alan carolla. i don't know how you are standing it out there. the endeavour rolling along on the streets and everybody is going crazy. what is going on? what is this? >> well, it moved from lax to a museum near downtown l.a. at about 2 and a half miles per

thing right there. as far as the president being able to cultivate an image, ronald reagan was aware of this, there were a lot of follow-up questions on whether hillary clinton took a hit on this libya thing on his behalf and he i norred the questions on focused on the questions he liked. candidates do that. we have congressman from the fine state of california who reminded me it includes hollywood and follow studios. i should be careful, congresswoman. do you think i was racing this with john sununu how and whether it comes up and you reminded there is a venue where it is tough to get nasty. does the president need to get nasty or an in your face joe biden? >>guest: i don't think so, no. i think it will be very important for him to point out the differences between his position and governor romney and it will be important to point out governor romney's inconsistencyies and interacting with the audience and conducting with the audience is something he does well. >>neil: they always say i don't know who is right on the surveys that you don't want be too negative or deflect an average

't make a difference. you can combine the speaking skills of ronald reagan and 8 abraham lincoln and winston churchill and it is not enough to defend this record. the biggest problem for obama is making promises. cut the deficit in half, didn't half. said he would cut health care premiums $25 and it didn't happen. gas prices have doubled. he didn't spend one minute talking about new policies for the next four years. four years it was hope and change. now it is destroy, attack, divide, lie about governor romney's record. >> this affects your state of louisiana because the earlier part of the debate they talked about energy. energy production is up in large part thanks to north dakota and private lands, but the president tried to say in my administration they are up and leases are down 50%. >> absolutely. look at offshore leasing activities and thisy can -- i have almost canceled more leases than sales. you look at offshore permitting down by half in many cases. you look at the keystone pipeline. he said look at all of the pipelines we built. they only approved it from oklahoma to

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