it was all about ronald reagan. the man who was at the center of her life for 55 years until his death. her interest -- i think you were going to bring this up, susan -- in stem cell research even when it wasn't a popular thing in the republican party was about the connection to lz alzheimer's. she had friends with children with juvenile diabetes and it was believed and scientists argued that we need to do much more with stem cell research than united states had been doing. she lobbied president george bush, george w. bush, in the early 2000s when this was an issue. again, went against the party, she called members of congress. she was a tiers advocate. she made speeches for it. you could trace, i think, almost everything she's done since then to something that either has to do with what her husband did or alzheimer's. >> in terms of party politics in 1996 she gave a speech to the republican convention in san diego, fast forward to 2008 she got involved in the kaine presidential effort by endorsing him. when she she

of ronald reagan in the white house. this is her talking about her political antenna. let's watch. >> i think i just had little antennas that went up and told me when somebody had their own agenda and not ronny's. and then i tell him. he didn't always agree with me but i would tell him, and it usually worked out. >> it was the first thing that you had noticed when somebody had their own agenda? >> i -- you just know. you just -- you can't say. there's something that you -- you just know if you are -- if you have those and tennis. antennas were probably directed at white house chief of staff don reagan, who ultimately lost his job and some of that was over the disagreement with the iran contra affair and how that was playing out. he wrote, as you called it, a kiss and tell book. what did we learn about the relationship through that? well >>, we learned that this is -- you want to get back at her, i guess, and the a strutted interesting thing was his -- was a poisonous arrow in the quiver. but, you know we knew that there

reagan to thestage and then i'll get your reaction . >> ronald reagan is asked to come down and join us area their gesturing to him. so signing autographs. and the box might not even be able to see the president . he's shouting into the microphone. would you come down and bring nancy, says the president. come on down. they just deliveredthe alabama standard . >> that's john chancellor and also david brinkley to john souza on the screen. what's going on right here in mark. >> this is the part where they ronald reagan's kind of seems reluctant and he finally kind of wins thecrowd . accolades and the crowd with his supporters were soloud , he goes okay, i'm going to do it. and supposedly he said what theysay i don't even know what i'm going to say . and then he gets into the bad spot. and then hits one of the great grand slams in american rhetorical speech. >> bob dole's line. >> bob dole had a terrible time because the two sides were so angry at each other at one point bedlam broke out after nelson rockefeller ripped one of the reagan campaign signs in half and one of the reagan people

c-span: here is more of ronald reagan actually speaking. .. [applause] he is declaring victory talking about this is a platform a lot of great gorilla flight the on - - gorilla fighting and in fact when he says this is truly a platform gender language would not be acceptable say he is referring to the speech at the 1975 cpac that says we need party not of the democrats so it's him saying to his supporters you can say you have one but we have one the future that the other being here is him reaching out to democrats in the first we are familiar with the phrase reagan democrats that the working-class voters who were alienated within the civil rights movement and feminist movement to be pulled into the republican tent was another of his geniuses. and the fact that he seizes the moment to strike a new vision of the republican party for the future and that this shows. >> really had one other father-son president john adams and john quincy adams nearly quarter of a century , 24 years between the presidency of those two men. john adams is in the last

that ronald reagan used to tap. and the key is, as you'll see, ronald reagan was effectively telling the story on himself. it related to a time in his career when he didn't know sort what he was doing or where he was going. as you will know of ronald reagan, he had two careers primarily. he was a film actor. and then he became a politician. but there was an interregnum. a period between the time basically after he stopped getting calls from hollywood producers. he couldn't get any good roles. between when his career ended and his political career. film career and political career began. and he had, well, a rather unusual position. in fact, it was a job that was invented for him by the general electric corporation. general electric was at the time the behemoth of the american economy. and reagan was their spokesman. he was a television host for the ge theater. and the ge theater was, well, an experiment in television. this is in the 1950s. and nobody knows quite what to do with tv. so, they think, what you do with th

from ronald reagan as richard norton smith suggested. a lot of work during the primary when president ford had the nomination, a hard-fought campaign against jimmy carter, the governor of georgia. and by the time election night came and the fords had lost, president ford had lost his speech. he asked the first lady to give his concession speech. we'll watch a little bit of that now. >> the president asked me to tell you that he telephoned president elect carter a short time ago and congratulated him on his victory. the president also wants to thank all of those thousands of people who worked so hard on his behalf and the millions who supported him with their votes. it's been the great honor of my husband's life to have served his fellow americans during two of the most difficult years in our history.the president urges

susan: let's listen to ronald reagan in his press inauguration address in 1981. and hear how he described his goals. >> our government has no power except what is granted by the people. it is time to check the growth of government, which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed. it is my intention to curb the size and influence of the federal government and recognize the distinction of powers granted to the federal government and those reserved to the states or to the people. [applause] susan: john burtka, how did ronald reagan govern versus his ideals when he got into office? mr. burtka: well, i think that he found out it is a lot harder to scale back the federal bureaucracy in washington than he may have thought. i do not think he was naive against the monumental challenge he was up against. he certainly cut taxes and used deregulation and other things to free and unleash the economy in a way that i think was quite successful. but i think in terms of taking a look at the federal government, the bureaucratic apparatus, and really making mea

visit ncicap.org] >> in june of 1985, president ronald reagan talked in the oval office with reader's digest washington bureau chief. three years later, the bbc's godfrey hodgson sat on with him. this sunday, watch both these interviews on the presidency. here's a preview. >> commentators and some former presidents have talked of the loneliness of the presidency. yet you seem to approach the job with great relish. do you find it lonely or burdensome? how would you describe it? >> no, i don't. peopleunded myself with i have confidence in, that i believe in. here allthink i sit alone and decide everything by myself. as i say, i want to hear everybody's viewpoint. and i do not give any indication of where eileen while i hear those viewpoints -- where i lean while i hear those viewpoints. i've had people in my cabinet who are cabinet officers under other presidents and tell me they have never been in cabinet meetings that were as fruitful before. evidently, a lot of presidents simply use their cabinet as a periodically,meet and different members would report what their department's were d

. >> you have an image like ronald reagan how do you describe donald trump? >> he comes from a little different cultural and social position that i have great respect for that. i think they are all unique based on our upbringing and background and experiences and family he's a very unique individual i had the privilege of sitting in his office on a lot of occasions the villages walk in and talk to him or he would take a phone call i cannot believe he would just let me sit there to have a birds eye view how he operated. but i got quite an education on what it was like to be in the real estate industry in manhattan just listening to him talk and be who he was. i do think he is a happy warrior and believes in the country, is a patriot, thinks the best is yet to come. he very much believes the things other people think don't happen can't happen and he dreams big and ask big. he is a counterpunch or. everybody knows that he looks for the best and believes the best. i have to say that i talk about this in the book that even though i didn't have a high opinion of hi

you have an image as does ronald reagan as kind of a happy warrior. would you describe donald trump in that way? >> yes, i would say yes with a heavy dollop of queens new york.he is coming from a little bit of a different social and cultural location than i am. i have great respect for that. i think we are all unique based on our upbringing, or experiences, or backgrounds, our family. he is a very unique individual. i had the privilege of sitting in his office on a lot of occasions and every now and again people would just walk in and talk to him or he would take a phone call and i couldn't really believe that he would let me just sit there and have a birds eye view to how he operated but, let me tell you, i got quite an education on what it was like to be in the real estate industry in manhattan just listening to him talk and be who he was. i do think he's a happy warrior. i think he believes in the country, he's a patriot, he thinks the best is yet to come. he very much believes that things that other people don't think it happened, can happen. he d

next from real america, an all-star party for ronald dutch reagan, hosted by frank sinatra. ♪ >> welcome to our all-star party for dutch reagan. speaking for variety club, bonnie hall. ♪ >> thank you very much and welcome to our 35th annual all-star party. please join me in welcoming a lady we love. who is now appear ng a very supporting role in a major production back east. this is dutch reagan. ♪ and now, kindly join me in welcoming man who we greet as fred. a very special friend close to our hearts. mr. dutch reagan. ♪ >> hello. >> nancy and dutch, your host for the evening, 1983 variety club honoree, truly his broth brother's keeper, frances albert sinatra. ♪ >> you may be seated. i'm delighted to be here with dutch and his bride. the first lady of the united states and might i add the first lady of geneva, too. and now, here are some wonderful people who will be entertaining you for the next hour. you've already met marty and here are charleston heston, e dee gourmet and steve lawrence, of course. and emanuel lewis, the mightest little fella i've ever known in my life and my

and each one of those groups saw in ronald reagan a way of achieving their goal. and that is why he won. and when candidates now say, we are going to put the social issues or the moral issues in the deep freeze or on the back burner, they are making a terrible mistake because they are kicking away larger blocks of voters who are important to their victory. profamilyeel that the movement has played a tremendous role and there are so many people who came into the republican party through these social and moral issues. many otherust -- so issues they care about. we got into the issue of marriage which is another social issue. and i'm sure that this part of the conservative movement was very influential in passing about 30 constitutional amendments in support of traditional marriage. and passing the defense of marriage act like congress, a wonderful law that obama is not enforcing. you know, one of the principal duties of the president is to see that the laws are faithfully executed. he is not faithfully executing doma. now's since have then been in many other issues.

and i got really excited about ronald reagan and went out and worked my tail off for him and i was a reaganite and that was the beginning and i never really looked back. >> you have an image, as does ronald reagan, as kind of a happy warrior. would you describe donald trump in that way? >> yeah, i would say yes, with a heavy dollop of queens, new york. you know, he's coming from a little bit of a different social and cultural location than i am. and i have great respect for that. i think, i think we're all unique based on our upbringing, our experiences, our background, our family and he's a very unique individual. i had the privilege of sitting in his office on a lot of occasions and every now and again, you know, people would just walk in and talk to him or he'd take a phone call and i couldn't really believe that he would let me just sit there and have a bird's eye view to how he operated, but let me tell you, i got quite an education on what it was like to be in the real estate industry in manhattan just listening to him talk and be who he was, but i do think he's a happy warrior

both videos are courtesy of the ronald reagan presidential library. eastern, 1958 mccall's magazine interview with eleanor roosevelt through family photographs and telling the stories kind them. if you need a transcript, we are happy to provide one. william: i will need that. i am sure. [indiscernible] our editor-in-chief thought it might be more effective one-on-one. i remember an interview once i had -- have you ever seen their headquarters? it is kind of a beautiful country home, spacious lawns. william: it is indeed. president captivated our founder for four and a half hours and then had to leave to make a speech. it was a wonderful lunch. would like to do here, sir, is ask you some questions so that our readers have a better idea of president reagan, the man. i would like to start off by asking what has surprised you the most pleasantly and unpleasantly about being inside the government you have for so long observed from the outside? all. reagan: well, first of , one surprise, pleasant or how little i was surprised. years ashe eight governor of c

i met ronald reagan as a newly minted 18-year-old. i worked this the george herbert walker bush administration when i was just 29. i once had a seven-hour dinner with fidel castro at his house. i got to bring the former pakistani president to vote with me at my suburban philadelphia polling place. i confronted the members of the led zeppelin band with a demand they reunite. you can watch ittan you tube. i didn't go well. i worked for arlen specter. i drank champagne from the stanley cup and even had my portrait painted at a fund-raiser in front of a live audience by named artist nelson shanks. i twice better viewed president barack obama from the white house. if first was august 20, 2009. >> i'm live at the white house and i'm joined by the president of the united states. mr. president, what an honor for me. thank you, sir, for this privilege, and thank you for coming back to my radio program. >> michael, it is great to be on the show again. every time we have been on, it has been a great time. i appreciate the opportunity. >> so many

reagan also carry, what did the democrats do that they voted in the district that really liked ronald reagan. and there were 14 democratic districts who voted for donald trump and those not working with donald trump. unless you have a structure of a congress who has two work with the president of the opposite party, you are not going to have the fairytale story of leaders of the party working together, that has nothing to do donald trump, on the other hand he was elected because we had a partisan time where it is the full partisan without sounding the normal unifying things. anyway this goes to your question, how much does donald trump have to do with any of that? >> sorry i just want to make sure i did not lose you, a window popped open on my screen. the nsa has control of my computer. so what steps back, you can imagine let's say the democrat president comes in, you can imagine executive behavior done in the name of we have to fix everything that might arise with donald trump and it would be just the same kind of power to the executive trampoline on the prerogative of congress that

the ronald reagan presidential library provided this video. y: mr. president, can you recall your feelings when you took the oath of office for the first time? pres. reagan: it won't be

ronald reagan has his style, george bush had his. i think the presentation of intelligence to the president has to take that into account. what i am talking about here is not, does the president read lengthy briefing papers, does he get it via movies and that sort of thing. the question is whether he gets it at all. i think he is uninterested in learning. i think the facts that are inconvenient for him often do not stick despite repeated tellings. can he say that he was never briefed on its or he thinks it is fake and get away with it? we will see, maybe he will, but this is a serious problem for the united states. you can say what you want about joe biden in policy terms. i think he receives, processes, and retains information. i think with trump it is much more questionable. jonathan: something that is questionable for a lot of people listening and watching is what you chose to put in the book and what you choose not to talk about. on russia, no comment. but when it comes to leading on leaderaning on a foreign for help in an electi

up next, on the presidency, ronald reagan gives his first press conference nine days after taking the oath of office on january 20, 1981. questions about the recently resolved iranian hostage crisis and its aftermath dominated the discussion that ranged from domestic affairs, to the new administration's foreign policy priorities. president reagan met with the press in the old executive office building next door to the white house. this video is courtesy of the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california. pres. reagan: how do you do? i have a brief opening statement here before i take your questions. yesterday, secretary of the treasury, donald regan, sent to the congress a request to raise the debt ceiling to $985 billion. this represents a dramatic jump of $50 billion over the previous debt ceiling. the administration took this action with great regret because it is clear that the massive deficits our government runs is one of the root causes of our profound economic problems. and it, for too many years, this process has come too easily for us. we have lived beyond

. >> so compare ronald reagan with donald trump. go back to thinking of the times when reagan was in the white house. but trump seems like it's mma gloves off. so what do you think of that quick. >> i haven't thought of it quite that way. i think that reagan had a remarkable sense of the role of the nice guy he had that instinctive belief. what the president should be like. and a good friend of mine just before he was sworn in had a very bold idea. that would have shaken the system up radically reagan turned and said paul that's a very interesting idea. but i wear the white hat. how somebody wears a black cat do something like that. so he had a sense of his limitations. but then reagan was almost always but where the real mistake that there was softness because actually he is very tough. that reagan really began moving to the right after the screen actors guild and 47 and also speaking as an anti-communist increasingly because of nancy's father with taxes and other issues. and then to always go by train. so reagan and it being very

you go back to jimmy carter with ronald reagan and gerald forward with jimmy carter. he hopes he will break on september 29. >> how are the negotiations with the commission on presidential debates? is the president committed to show up to all three debates? gov. christie: the president would like more debates. remember something, a lot of people are going to start voting before september 29. and there will not be one presidential debate before then to me seems ridiculous. we need to move them up or add additional debates between the president and vice president giving the phenomenon of early voting that occurs in many states. you will see the president and i'm sure he would love to have more of them. >> is that in discussion right now? is there a chance of that happening? e c.p.d. is pretty firm with its plan with three presidential and one vice presidential. >> that is up to the folks to do that. i'm a bystander. those are my views of what i know about the president and i think the president would want sooner more debates more than later. no shun -- one should cast a

., on the presidency, ronald reagan, 1983 interview with reader's digest in his 1988 interview with the bbc's godfrey hodgson. both were conducted from the oval office, with reagan discussing a variety of issues including his hollywood days, the 1983 bombing that killed marines, his vision for u.s.-soviet relations, and the assassination attempt left him wounded. exploring the american story. watch american history tv today on c-span3. >> coming up next, an oral history interview with thomas gaither. he talks about attending flatland college, taking part in the desegregation sit in movement, has worked for the congress of racial equality, and helping to organize the 1961 freedom rides. this interview as part of a project on the civil rights movement initiated by congress in 2009. conducted by this sicilian national museum of african-american history and culture, the american folklife center, and the sev

nobody treated ronald reagan worse. the "post" requested a comment but he declined. the program, daca, is going to be pending while they weigh whether they're going to try to end the program again. that friday announcement came despite a ruling from the supreme court last night that said the administration's attempt to terminate the program was, in fact, improper. the government has only been processing renewals for those who applied for daca before the administration halted the program in 2017, though, a federal judge in maryland ordered the program fully restored more than ten days ago. more than 60,000 require that, enabling them to legally work here in the united states and to not be deported. all right. let's switch gears and get a first look with your weather with nbc meteorologist janessa webb. good morning to you. >> hey, good morning, yasmin. it was a busy weekend. we've been watching the tropical storms. 've had the first hurricane of 2020 for the atlantic, making landfall across south texas. i want to show you a video right now of corpus chris it is where

. , their study is the presidency, she's written books on ronald reagan and the foreign policy as well. we have a great lineup today, what we are going to do is jump into the meat of the book, we want to give you a little sense in one of the key points and i want you to hear her thoughts, we will have conversation and then will turn to you, i want to mention a couple other times, when i do see for questions you have a number of ways of getting in touch. one is to submit questions in the comment section and also with the youtube chat function and finally at twitter at # btc life. let's begin. this is a book that you have written extensively on the white house, when i like about the book is it's about personality and conflict of important geysers in the presidency and the white house itself. it says a lot about how the institution is grown. my first question, you point out over the period you're talking about starting after fdr, the white house has become a much bigger institution, more staff, more prominent and yet the advisors are younger than cabinet secretaries but they also have the

so i think ronald reagan was right. yoknow, governors still matter. they matter a lot. and we're the onesar whclosest to the problem. what the federal government can do, you know, is to be here to assist. you know, one of things that the public doesn't s or hear is, every week, at least onca week, the vice president gets on the phone with governors. i think we had 47 goveors on the call several days ago. and i think people would be delighted if they could listen in to thatr becauss no partisanship. it is just, "hey, let's just go fix the problem. what do you need? what are you seeing? what are you doing in your state?" about our federal ,t thing is, they are the 50 laboratories of democcy. and i'm on the phone a lot to my fellow governors and sayi, "hey. how are you handling this? how are you handling that?" and those exchange of ideas are just very, very, very positive and very good. >> we've heard you praise roe vice president, the white house virus task force, the cdc. from the federal government, governor? >> look, you never get everything you want in life,ou know?

i'd hesitate to give my right honourable friend a history lesson but he'll recall that ronald reagan was a deep admirer of fdr and quite a heavy spender in his own right. members of northern ireland‘s assembly have debated a motion criticising sinn fein ministers over their attendance at the funeral of senior ira figure bobby storey. the motion drawn up by the dup, uup, alliance, and the sdlp called on deputy first minister michelle o‘neill and finance minister conor murphy to apologise amid claims they broke coronavirus guidelines. critics have suggested social distancing was not maintained in crowds that lined the streets, that dozens of people attended a requiem mass and that ms o‘neill posed for a photograph at milltown cemetery where a man put his arm around her shoulders. michelle o‘neill has already apologised "for grieving families experiencing more hurt" but insisted she did not break the rules. more than 30 in attendance. hundreds more behind them in a procession. widespread advertising of an event. installing a public address system in the cemetery, a mass rally in

., t who hosts program for 33 years, spoke to a newly inauguted ronald reagan, governor of califoia. let's take a look at what he said. >> do you think that 10, 20 years from now, the office of governor will be almost like the office of the lieutenant gove of the provinces in canada? pretty much a rituale? a handshaking office? >> well, they're gonna have a fight with some governors think, with a lot of people. >> governor, conservatives havee long a just like buckley and reagan did there, in favor of the principle of federali, letting states take control. and you even recently said that people turn to their governorscr in times ois. so what, then, is the role, governor, for the federal government in a pandemic? >> well, i think there's some lsons out of this. when we all have a chance to sit back and not worry about what's happening every single day, we can come up with the lessons. but, you know, certainly one that comes to mind is that, you know, we have to invest in public health. at the state level. we have to do at the federal level. ni have not historically done that in thed s

so they knew they had voters in their district to really liked ronald reagan. trump one and 14 democratic districts. and those democrats are not working with trump so much of the structure of congress to have incentive to work with the opposite party, you will not have a fairytale story working together. that has nothing to do with donald trump. he was elected because without even sounding that conciliatory tapes. how much does donald trump have to do with any of that? sorry wanted to make sure i didn't lose you. the nsa has control of my computer. so you could imagine all kinds of executive behavior done in the name we have to fix everything. just the same power grab trampling on the prerogative of congress to set the founders into a tailspin in terms of overstepping the powers of the office. essentially to their and. and the democratic candidates to use those tools that have been shown is that can be used. and finally it just depends on congress becoming a different kind of body if the presidency will turn into something else. >> we have some great questions

ford to run for vice president on a ticket headed by ronald reagan. ford has so far refused, although some of the republican party's biggest names are urging him to run on a theory it would be the best the party could offer. >> that was nbc's john chancellor 40 years ago tonight. that was night three of the republican national convention inside detroit's joe lewis arena. donald reagan was going to be the nominee for president. that much was known. but who was going to be his running mate. there were several names in the mix including a former president of the united states. but why? why would reagan ever want gerald ford as his vice president? and why would ford want to do it? it makes sense only when you remember that there was real doubt in 1980 about whether reagan could win the presidency. the fear was he was too conservative, too hawkish, too extreme. everyone remembered what happened 60 years earlier to barry goldwater. he didn't even get 40% of the vote. he lost one of the most lop side ed elections ever. would americans actually vote for ronal

on the presidency, ronald reagan's 1983 interview with reader's digest, and his 1988 interview with the bbc. both conducted from the oval office with reagan discussing a variety of issues, including his hollywood days, the bombing that killed marines in beirut, lebanon, his vision for the-soviet relations, and assassination attempt that left him seriously wounded. watch american history tv today on c-span3. tv,ext on american history historian and leadership scholar jared peatman looks at lincoln's life and how he used humor to -- humor, optimism, and empathy to handle adversity. lincoln'sabraham intellectual and emotional makeup is well-suited to lead the nation through the crisis of the civil war. >> on behalf of all of us at president lincoln's college, we to welcome you to the program. abraham lincoln is a natural example to turn to in a time of crisis. having led the nation through a crisis that threatened its existence and touched everyone, that is so significant we are feeling its effects today. he is notable for his empathy and accountability and humanity. all of those character

he does well against ronald reagan. ronald reagan of course had nearly won the republican nomination in 76 and was expected to win in the nomination in 80. but george bush hits the ground running and takes iowa and really surprise a lot of people and makes it seem as though this is going to be a competitive race. >> unfortunately for him, at that point, the reagan steamroll begins and he winds up winning the nomination handily. and george bush goes to the republican convention really thinking that was it. he had -- he was going to release his delegates. he had played his part. and reagan actually comes up with a very unusual plan that perhaps he's going to bring back gerald ford and they would be co-president. gerald ford would take the nomination and essentially handle foreign affairs while reagan handled domestic affairs. and very quickly, it became apparent that was never going to work. so reagan then turned to george bush, the man who had finished second, and offered him the ticket, and george bush took it in a hear

hear more from these ronald reagan interviews sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on american history tv. >> you are watching american history tv, covering history c-span style with event coverage, eyewitness accounts, archival films, lectures in college classrooms, and visits to museums and historic places, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> the korean war began 70 years ago on june 25, 1950. it ended with an armistice agreement in july of 1953. up next, an oral history with interview with u.s. army veteran baldwin myers, recorded in 2015 by the korean war legacy foundation. he talked about his time in korea and how the experience shaped his life after the war. eventually, he was diagnosed with ptsd. the interview project was underwritten by south korea's ministry of patriots and veterans affairs. baldwin: i am baldwin frank myers. my first name is spelled b as in boy, a-l-d-w-i-n. in the army, i was known by my buddies as baldy. [laughter]

you go back as far as jimmy carter with ronald reagan and gerald ford with jimmy carter. it has been a pattern in a pattern i am sure the president hopes he will be able to break on september 29. >> how are the negotiations with the commission on presidential debates? is the president committed to showing up to all three debates? gov. christie: the president would love to have more debate if they can work out the timing. remember something, a lot of people are going to start voting before september 29. they will not see one presidential debate by then, seems ridiculous. i think we need to move the date up or add additional debates between the president and vice president, given the phenomenon of early voting that occurs in so many states. you will absolutely see the president onstage stage for all three debates. i am sure he would love to have more of them. >> is that in discussion right now? having an earlier debate? is there actually a chance of that happening? usually the c.p.d. is pretty firm with its plan with three presidential and one vice presidential. gov. christ

i'm so grateful you have dedicated to conveying the spirit of ronald reagan and i think in that sense you will create a real building block of our future that gives us hope that we will continue to Ãb >> thank you so much mr. speaker. take you again for being with us. our best and stay safe there. >> thank you. >> binge watch booktv the summer every saturday evening at 8:00 p.m. eastern settle in and watch several hours of your favorite authors tonight we are featuring new york times best-selling author and journalist malcolm gladwell, author of several books including "talking to strangers " the tipping point, outliers and david and goliath. be sure to watch next saturday, july 25 with future books by presidents donald trump, barack obama, george w. bush, bill clinton and george hw bush. binge watch booktv all summer on c-span two. recently msnbc legal and just à Ãincluding her time is one of the special prosecutors on the watergate case. here's a portion of her talk. >> in the first hearing where we were trying to figure out who had handled the tics, who might have been able to e

knew that they had voters in their district who really like to ronald reagan. donald trump won in 2016 and there were 14 democratic districts who voted for donald trump. those working democrats are not working with donald trump. unless you have the structure of congress that has incentives to work with the president of the opposite party, you're not going to have this fairytale story of leaders of both parties working together. that has nothing to do with donald trump. on the other hand, he was elected because they come to a partisan time where you can win is a kind of full throated partisan without even sounding some of the normal conciliatory unifying teams. anyway, this goes to your question, what's abstract and what doesn't and how much does donald trump have to do with any of that? sorry, i want to make sure i didn't lose you. a window popped open on my screen. the nsa has control of my computer. [laughter] i think what you can imagine is that what say a democratic president comes in, you can imagine all kinds of executive behavior done in the name of we h

i think that george bush and ronald reagan were certainly closer than nancy reagan and barbara bush. barbara bush definitely did not recommend her children go into politics. when george w. bush came to his parents and told them he was going to run for the governorship of texas i think barbara tried to talk him out of it. the same thing happened when he decided to make a run for the presidency. and as i think we're going to discuss towards the end of the program barbara has been not a particular fan of the idea of jeb running in the upcoming presidential election in 2016. >> so barbara bush became something of the public face of the bush administration. she spent a lot of time on the road. was that time mostly spent talking about literacy, sore was she involved in political aspects of the presidency? how did she use -- everything becomes political. >> and what was the source of her popularity? >> i think people looked at her and said, boy, that looks like somebody i know. and there's a wonderful advertisement actually that comes out to a furniture sale i think at this time where someo

reagan's speech on the challenger does a similar thing. in a moment of challenge crisis being able to do sort of the component parts of what makes such a speech powerful is to pay homage to those who have died, to knit their cause into the story of america. the narrative of america. and in so doing up lift those who have been left behind. and to do it all at the right moment with a sufficient talent and school for delivering such a speech that it captures the american imagination and leaves the country less wounded than they were before the speech was given. >> since richard nixon we've had the chance to sit down with every president. and brian lamb in a q&a program after he left the white house. this conversation was president george w. bush in which they talked about the role of the media, something you talk about in your book. >> the process i also made it clear that i studied a lot of history. i read, for example, a lot of olincoln. and they did the same thing to lincoln and truman. and just finished a book on roosevelt. there's always

he is more like ronald reagan then he is like his father. so he was embraced by the republican party. since then, with the rise of donald trump, george w. bush is essentially an outlier once again. i remember seeing bush quoted at one time, on the issue of immigrants crossing the border without documentation. his comment was, if they are willing to cross the big bend, we want them. and can you imagine a republican saying anything like that today? bush is a president who often said, i'm not going to try to evaluate my performance in office. i will leave that to history. history is going to have an interesting time with this change in reputation within his own party. >> incidentally, perhaps one of the most eloquent writers if you are interested in the subject about reagan and the bushes and how george w. bush is trying to reconcile that, carl cannon wrote a terrific book reflecting on all of that. i will give a little shout out to carl. it is trying to come to grips with some of the things you just raised. i think it may be reagan and bush --

on the presidency, godfrey hodgson sat down with ronald reagan. he talked about arms control, the iran-country controversy, and the assassination attempt that left him wounded. the ronald reagan presidential library provided this video. godfrey: mr. president, can you recall your feelings when you took office for the first time? pres. reagan: i recall that day with great clarity. all of it, the coming to the white house, the -- being taken thoseappearing before thousands of people stretched wason the mall, there unreality to all of it. awareness of what it meant in my life, and i mean an awareness of the importance of the occasion, and at the same prayer in my mind that i could meet the responsibilities. godfrey: people have told us one of your great strengths is that you had an agenda with just a few big things that you wants to change -- you wanted to change. pres. reagan: the country was in the economic doldrums. double-digit inflation, great unemployment. the economy stagnating. people in the country seemed to have lost belief in themselves an

independence day message from president ronald reagan. next. ♪ >> tonight's quote of the night from president ronald reagan on independence day 34 years ago. >> if there's one i'd carry with me after the privilege for holding the five and a half years the office held by adams, jefferson, and lincoln, it is this, that the things that unite us, america's past of which we are so proud of, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world and this much loved country some of these things far outweigh what little divides us. in so tonight, we are to be affirmed as one nation under god, the black-and-white, we are one nation indivisible by republican and democrat. we are all americans. >> memorable words. and that is the story of friday, july 3rd, 2020, but as always, the story continues. president trump speech from mount rushmore is coming up 10:00 p.m. eastern time right here on the fox news channel. have a very safe holiday weekend and see you back here monday night at 7:00 p.m. eastern. >> tucker: good evening, happy fourth of july wee

was john tower, george bush, spiro agnew and one more, ronald reagan. wouldn't that have been something? so now comes 1989, and it is former senator tower and former chair of the senate committee and bush names him, his old friend, to secretary of defense. and it comes out that there's concerns about, as herb parment put it, his love of women and booze. and there was some sort of conflict of interest investigation as well, and it was the first time since 1959 that a cabinet officer was not confirmed. the senate at this time was 45 republicans and 55 democrats, i believe, and the vote went down 47-53. 53 no. so that, to me, means -- i believe that means two democrats crossed over and voted yes, or more republicans voted no. but it was due to the fact that the democrats were in the senate, in control of the senate, and that is why tower did not get through. the larger point to make here, though, is george bush felt very strongly that loyalty goes down as well as up. he was tremendously loyal to john tower despite all the flaws that were exposed. in meachu

likeness of ronald reagan in your fund-raising. the president bristled at that, ripped the organization and those behind it. i'm just wondering, you loved both presidents i'm sure. whose side are you on? >> well, i am clearly, i think trump is by far the best president around. he has done a great job up until the pandemic here. the bills, cares act are not good bills. they're spending money we don't have. it is not doing any good to the economy. if he wants to do good, he personally loved the payroll tax waiver, the medical transparency, did an executive order on it. this puts it into legislative form. charter schools, vouchers that is all obviously there reagan never went alearning with the opposition side. never gave in. when you send mnuchin out there you lost before you began. mnuchin and mark meadows didn't get any proposal. i hope president vetos it take it to the voters. would you have a payroll tax waiver or these guys stuff? the president will win on this issue. i think that is the way to go. neil: art, you didn't answer m