it could be the reagan rule. lower than what you pay under ronald reagan. ronald reagan, who as i recall, is not accused of being a tax and spend socialist. >> if congress passes it we would rename it the reagan rule tomorrow. >> okay. they don't call me the nerd for nothing i remember this well. i covered this at the time. i know my financial history. it is the white house taking the gipper out of context. we lay. you decide. >> we want to cut taxes. not opportunity. as you can see the percentage of income tax owed would come down, way down, for those earnings less than $15,000. down for earnings between $15,000 and $30,000. down for earnings between 30,000 and $50,000. and down for those earning more than $50,000. by lowering everyone's tax rates up to income scale each of us is a great incentive to climb higher, to excel, to help america grow. >>neil: lowering everyone's taxes so is this president taking liberty quoting that president? fact checking thinks so. awarding president obama two pinocchios indicating significantomicses or exaggerations. i am qu

president obama doesn't have much in common with ronald reagan. the difference between the two men is fairly simple. was a long to spread the wealth. the other to spread freedom. in my book "scorpions for breakfast" i tell of my meeting with president obama in the oval office. one 9 look him in the eye and i told him i didn't want to talk about his so-called comprehensive immigration reform. our border with out of control. i stand here today aiming to make a case on the subject of america's border with mexico and immigration policy. i know my words will be distorted by those who disagree. my opponents have already painted me as hardest and and compassionate. they are wrong. my record, my life, how long the critics are. it has nothing to do with skin color, nothing to do with extremism. instead it is rooted in freedom. it shares the spirit of our founding fathers request to form a more perfect union leaders will establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of l

>> the wild-eyed socialist class hiking tax warrior was ronald reagan. he thought in american the wealthiest should pay their fair share. >> eric: whatever. i'll let rush tell it. >> they have revisionist history about the reagan years. all of it, what they need to move their agenda forward, when they need to marshall support for what they are trying to do, who do they invoke? lbj? no. teddy kennedy? no. j.f.k.? no. r.f.k.? no. bill clinton? no. they invoke ronald reagan. >> eric: revisionist history. exactly right, bob. reagan and obama are miles apart. the divide cannot be wide enough in the world. >> bob: that is in your view, and your view is a wide view anyway. the idea first of all, tarted by sag he compared himself to reagan. he did not. he did not compare himself to reagan. he was citing something that reagan said and reagan did say the things. it was crazy, the wealthy had as many tax loopholes they had and he was cutting taxes. he said one thing is wealthy should not get out from underneath the responsibility to pay taxes ala mitt romney. >> er

reagan had to say in one nine hundred sixty four in support of barry goldwater. this is the issue of this election whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the american revolution and past that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capitol can. better than we can blame them ourselves. so the ninety's in one hundred seventy one lewis powell wrote a memo to his neighbor and the president of the u.s. chamber of commerce saying that business is under attack and needs to fight back and swallow the publication of rachel carlson's carson's silent spring and ralph nader's unsafe at any speed these were really attacks on business i mean powell was characterizing it that way but what it was was an attack on the willingness of businesses to put profits above human lives whether it was pesticides poisonous pesticides or exploding cars all this stuff was being revealed of the media right and soon into the public via the media by people like carson and nader and lewis powell and ronald reagan were freaked out about so pall said the bu

reagan had to say in one nine hundred sixty four in support variable. this is the issue in this election whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the american revolution in best that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives for as better than we can plan them ourselves and so by the ninety's in one hundred seventy one lewis powell wrote a memo to his neighbor and the president of the u.s. chamber of commerce saying that business is under attack and needs to fight back this fall of the publication of rachel carlson's carson's silent spring and ralph nader's unsafe at any speed these were really attacks on business i mean paul was characterizing it that way but what it was was an attack on the willingness of businesses to put profits above human lives whether it was pesticides poisonous pesticides or exploding cars all of this stuff was being revealed of the media to the public via the media by people like carson and nader and lewis powell and ronald reagan were freaked out about it so pal

in ronald reagan went all the way to kansas city against ford, and ronald reagan ran again in 1980 and he was the conservative champion. he is partially right, but santorum and the people around the country have a right in may for kentucky, arkansas, or west virginia, there are still people in the process that still want to vote. we're not sure we are for romney, gingrich, or san tomorrow, and we have the right to vote. >> if santorum is successful, how does he go out after pennsylvania when there are a host of states where probably he would win. if you don't get out soon, it's another full month or two that this goes on. >> i think you're right about that. i think if you won pennsylvania, i don't think it would make that big of a deal because of the points you raised. and it is his home state, but i think he would be encouraged, and if he wanted to fight on for 2016, the longer he stays in the better he does. he is just not a ronald reagan figure. he is not on the cutting edge of change. i think at the end of this season we'll find that he continues to hurt the republicans and it's go

>> let's put it this way, invoking ronald reagan in this context really takes the cake. we'll get to that later. but bear in mind that the first time around with the obama rule, it wasn't about basic fairness. it was about reducing the deficit as the president said, it's simple math. well, somebody did the arithmetic, and it adds up to about $5 billion a year, a teardrop in denting the deficit. then we shifted to basic fairness. the problem with that is he's running in a way that induces resentment on the part of most voters. i don't think most people carry resentment and fairness in their head all the time, but he has to sustain that by giving class warfare speeches. while it may work, i don't think it's a winning strategy. i don't think he can build a majority on that basis. some people will respond, but i don't think enough. >> kim, i want to stay with the political angle for a second. in america, does class warfare win? >> well, look, the president's doing this for two reasons. one is because he just doesn't have anything else to run on. the economy's not great. his

ronald reagan, when he spoke, people listened, people trusted ronald reagan to do the right thing. they don't trust obama to do the right thing. he's devisive. ronald reagan was never devisive. it shows best with good friend of talk radio alec baldwin. i ran into alec one time at the gym and he said to me, tell your family how i miss your father. i said what? you disagree with everything he ever stood for. he said yes, but i came to realize over the years that your father had a good soul. and what this country is missing is that good soul. he was absolutely correct in what he said. ronald reagan had a good soul. he didn't talk down to people, he talked to people. megyn: he was called the great communicator. barack obama, the expectations for him to lift us up and inspire us, were very high, hope and change. democrats and independents and republicans were hoping that was true. how important is that ability to finding morning in america again, to inspiring the american people to get out there and get the economy going again? >> be inspired not by the reverand wrights of the world, bu

in ronald reagan went all the way to kansas city against ford, and ronald reagan ran again in 1980 and he was the conservative champion. he is partially right, but santorum and the people around the country have a right in may for kentucky, arkansas, or west virginia, there are still people in the process that still want to vote. we're not sure we are for romney, gingrich, or san tomorrow a tomorrow, and we have the right to vote. >> if santorum is successful, how does he go out after pennsylvania when there are a host of states where probably he would win. if you don't get out soon, it's another full month or two that this goes on. >> i think you're right about that. i think if you won pennsylvania, i don't think it would make that big of a deal because of the points you raised. and and it is his home state, but i think he would be encouraged, and if he wanted to fight on for 2016, the longer he stays in the better he does. he is just not a ronald reagan figure. he is not on the cutting edge of change. i think at the end of this season we'll find that he continues to hurt the republic

the gun and honest under ronald reagan. and it isn't just read again. there is actually a trajectory that you can see from the week the mayor to his protÉge, george murphy who eventually became california senator, to his protÉge, ronald reagan. and right and in turn help mentor charlton heston eventually wind up with governor arnold schwarzenegger could he have the slightest you can serve it as would've also transformed the way in which the relationship tree media and politics but read the mayor and brought radio into the republican party to grammar and said nsi said his protÉge george e. was really the first actor to train presidents. he tried to do it in 48 and didn't listen to them and then he did in 1952 and 56 was dwight eisenhower. it was to republicans again brought hollywood republicans throughout the party into the radio age and the hub of the democrats. he met we invite you to join a conversation. we'll put phone numbers for production on the screen here. you can also tweet a look tv or you can send an e-mail, booktv@c-span.org. this discus

rawhide is ronald reagan's code name. that's where i got the title of the book from. >> rawhide is okay. follow up. rawhide is okay. you wanna go to the hospital or back to the white house? >> we're going to crown. >> okay. >> back to the white house. back to the white house. rawhide is okay. >> so they are heading back now towards the white house. and drew is flying, the driver of the limousin just hurtling down connecticut avenue. it's closed to traffic. wouldn't be traffic here in 1918 on march 30th because they closed the streets for the limousin's expected ride back. now at about -- as they are driving along, remember, the limousin is alone. they have no support. they have lost the motorcade behind. the followup car, armedored followup car with two men brandishing uzis catches up to him and the spare limousin with the president's physician in and another agent finally gets up near them. they are going along and the police cars are now starting to follow up and the police motorcycles are getting ahead of the limousin

rawhide is okay, rawhide is ronald reagan's code name. that's where i got the title of the book from. >> rawhide is okay. follow-up, rawhide is okay. >> roger. >> you want to go to hospital or back to the white house? >> we're going to crown. >> okay. >> back to the white house. back to the white house. rawhide is okay. >> so, they're heading back now towards the white house. and drew is flying, the driver of the limousine, hurtling down connecticut avenue. it's closed to traffic. there want to be traffic here in 1981 on march 30th because they've closed the streets for the limousine's expected ride back. at about -- as they're driving around, the limousine is alone, they have no support. they've left the motorcade behind. the follow-up cars, armored car with two guys brandishing uzis is following behind and another agent gets up here them, too. police cars are starting to follow up and the police motorcycles are getting ahead of the limousine, as they're going through right about, jerry parr realizes that something's wrong with the presi

rawhide is ronald reagan's code name. that's where i got the title of the book from. >> rawhide is okay. follow up. rawhide is okay. you wanna go to the hospital or back to the white house? >> we're going to crown. >> okay. >> back to the white house. back to the white house. rawhide is okay. >> so they are heading back now towards the white house. and drew is flying, the driver of the limousine just hurtling down connecticut avenue. it's closed to traffic. wouldn't be traffic here in 1918 on march 30th because they closed the streets for the limousine's expected ride back. now at about -- as they are driving along, remember, the limousine is alone. they have no support. they have lost the motorcade behind. the followup car, armored followup car with two men brandishing uzis catches up to him and the spare limousine with the president's physician in and another agent finally gets up near them. they are going along and the police cars are now starting to follow up and the police motorcycles are getting ahead of the limousi

go back and read what the editorial board of "the new york times" wrote about ronald reagan. go back and read what main -- i mean, my god, seriously? if somebody decided to just write a book on slanderous quotes against ronald reagan throughout the 1980s by the people now saying, well, you know, he was a reasonable republican, that would be a fun book to read. >> but what do you think about that argument that, ronald reagan wouldn't recognize his own party? >> it's very simple. very, very simple. and we go back to father pat buchanan, who always -- >> mon-signore. >> and this is the way that -- i mean, you should look at it. he always talked about political athletes. barack obama was a great political athlete. hillary clinton, a great political athlete. in 2012, the conservatives were the clunkers. that didn't run the 4.3 40. they run the 7.4 40 while eating a big mac and smoking a cigarette. and mitt romney wasn't flashy, but the moderate this year had the best operation, was best in the debates, and was the best political athlete, which again is not saying a whole lot. but

reagan could not get through a republican primary today. >> ronald reagan would win handily in a primary, and frankly in all the primaries. >> what's changed is the center of the republican party. >> i cannot wait to get my hands-on washington. megyn: michael reagan is the chairman of the reagan group and with us now. michael, first of all does it ever stun you that people are still making your dad the center of presidential politics all this time later? >> boy, if i got a penny every time they mention his name i'd own fox news, wouldn't i? megyn: yeah, both democrats and republicans. >> oh, yeah, democrats, republicans, i mean bring up his name more often than not. you'd think ronald reagan was running for the presidency of the united states in 2012 and there are a lot of people who wish that he would. both of them are right here. the fact that barack obama said ronald reagan would have a hard time going through the primaries, yes he would. it is different today than it was back in 1980. today they look at ronald reagan as a union leader, raised taxes, signed an abortion bill, signed no

chris: ronald reagan taught bill clinton how to salute. >> everybody needs lessons in something. [laughter] chris: he went like this. explain how that goes. >> reagan says, you need to know how to salute. you have to bring it up sharply and throw it down. and they sat in reagan's office practicing together. chris: up slow and down fast? >> like it is covered with honey and then down fast. chris: wow! >> he was in the movies. >> here's bill clinton getting some bipartisan help from jerry ford when bill was in some of his most embarrassing spots since nixon. >> this morning there is a high-level bipartisan call for compromise. former presidents ford and carter said today that they favor a bipartisan resolution of cren sure. chris: and as mike wrote -- >> they come out of this club with the need to protect the office of the presidency. no one understands what that office means. you are facing what was one of the greatest embarrassments to occur for the office itself. they were looking to protect that and to keep his own party in some ways from taking it too far to the point that it

in 1976, ronald reagan didn't get out of the race. he was able to stand tall in may, win the state of texas and he fell short and in the fall, republicans fell short. because we nominated another moderate and then four years later they fought him again. >> so, i mean, i was at that kansas city convention in 1976 and many people think that there were a number of factors but that gerald ford lost in the fall partly because of the reagan challenge. susan paige, is he setting himself up for 2016 and sesaying it's okay for the republicans to lose in the fall, to justify him staying in through tampa? >> he probably wouldn't say that directly but i do think that rick santorum is now thinking is four years ahead and trying to calculate whether get out of the race now, stay in through his home state of pennsylvania. in just over two weeks. there is some comparison i think with 1976 which was a big battle between different factions of the republican party. the more moderates centrist establishment faction won that year but reagan came on four y

now he's going to dress himself up as ronald reagan and try to tell the people something about ronald reagan that just is not true. ronald reagan was talking about lowering the effective tax rate on every working american in the united states of america. at the same time he was talking about closing the loopholes for all those tax deductions. that's what he was talking about. he wasn't talking about raising taxes on wealth thaoerbgs he w wealthy, he was talking about lowering everybody's taxes. for barack obama to once again take this out of context and play the ronald reagan card to try to get people to support his positions is just a bold faced lie. megyn: he came out specifically and talked about a speech your dad gave in 1985, this is president obama saying he gave a speech where he talked about a letter he had received from a wealthy executive who paid lower tax rates than his secretary and wanted to come to washington and tell congress why that was wrong. so this president, meaning your dad gave another speech where he said, that was crazy, that is a quote, that certain tax loop

ronald reagan was in essence holding the states hostage. we're going to take all this money away from you if you don't listen to us in the federal government. : buckled. even wisconsin although i think wisconsin was the second to last state. >> i'm sure grudgingly. >> very grudgingly. now of course the story is much earlier than that, the story of the federal government getting involved and speaking to a knowledgeable group of school teachers and historians and public historians, i don't have to tell you about prohibition. and the federal government's great social experiment. but what i did have to tell my fellow guys here, this was about the leg sill of prohibitioning. >> brian, it seems to me from what you're saying alcohol drives the expansion of the federal state. >> that's exactly right. >> is that a fair statement? >> that's exactly right. one can make a very good case for big government, so-called cd beginning, not with the new dee buw t beginning with prohibitio. for those of you who want to say sayonara good riddance to big governm

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ronald reagan. what is the problem that was so grave? what was bigger than the individual -- >> he didn't believe in using the federal government. so it must have been star wars. >> yeah, star wars. >> berlin wall. >> wrong, wrong, wrong. >> no? >> i'm convinced it will help state legislators to act in the national interest to save our children's lives by raising the drinking age to 21 across the country. >> this was about drunk driving. this was about alcohol. this was about something that i think most of us in this room think is a terrible thing, driving while drunk. but it's an example of how commonplace it became for the federal government to get involved in issues of health and safety in the 20th century. so much so, that even perhaps the strongest anti-big government president of the 20th century, well, there's some competition, but ronald reagan who defended the 10th amendment, who stood up for states' rights, said the federal government has to get involved when mothers against drunk drivers say that this is real trouble. and thos

and about that. >>> ronald reagan who has ever called is not accused of being a socialist understood repeatedly that's when the deficit started to get out of control that for him to make a deal you have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases. he did it multiple times. he did not get through republican primary today. i asked our political analyst about this. >>> idea of residents of bonn was really saying is the truth which is that all the republicans are looking for social conservatism in the fabric of somebody like ronald reagan the positions they're being forced to take in some of these seven states especially are so extreme that their positions are more than likely president reagan wouldn't taken all those years ago when he ran. >>> the republican race may not be officially decided for a while it may take from the until the california primary on june 5th to get the needed delegate count. elizabeth cook cbs five. >>> is a chance to lock in the shoes of a loved one with a degenerative disease. the tools used to give us a rare look inside the world's of someone with dementia

ronald reagan was in essence holding the states hostage. we're going to take all of this money away from you if you don't listen to us in the federal government. >> did they all buckle? >> they all buckled. even wisconsin although i think wisconsin was the second to last state. >> i'm sure grudgingly. >> very grudgingly. now of course the story is much earlier than that, the story of the federal government getting involved and speaking to a knowledgeable group of school teachers and historians and public historians, i don't have to tell you about prohibition. and the federal government's great social experiment. what i did have to tell my fellow guys here, this was about the legacy of prohibition. >> brian, seems to me from what you're saying alcohol drives the expansion of the federal state. >> that's exactly right. and one can make a very good case for big government, so called, beginning not with the new deal but beginning with prohibition. for those of you who want to say sayonara, good riddance to big government, we got rid of prohibit

. >>> on march 30th, 1981, a would-be assassin fired six shots at president ronald reagan outside of the washington hilton hotel two miles from the white house. washington post reporter delwilber met us on the sidewalk where the shooting took place to tell us what happened that day. >> ronald reagan was here delivering a speech to the afl-cio. he was excited to give the speech. he actually wrote it by hand. [ "hail to the chief" ] >> at 2:25, 2:26 or 2:27 he merges from the entrance behind this area, and this is new. it is a bunker, and if you will see, this is the entrance or the door, a steel door where the president emerged and left. he built this actually the entrance especially for the president. when they built it in the 1960s, they built this wonderful grand ballroom and for the vips they wanted the secure entrance so they built it here for ease of access to the limousines. what is interesting is that you will look up here and see the driveway and the curving driveway and the architects did not consult the secret service on building the entrance, so they realized the secret se

but he's not a ronald reagan figure. i think at the end of this season we'll find he's hurt the republicans, and it's going to be a very tough general election for mitt romney. >> if mitt romney loses the general, robert, rick santorum says see, i told you so, he was too moderate. thank you to both. >>> up next, john mccain knows something about how not to pick a running mate. and he's got some advice for mitt romney. that's next in the "sideshow." you're watching "hardball." ♪ beth! hi! looking good. you've lost some weight. thanks. you noticed. these clothes are too big, so i'm donating them. how'd you do it? eating right -- whole grain. [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't. multi-grain cheerios -- 5 whole grains, 110 calories. creamy, dreamy peanut butter taste in a tempting new cereal. mmm! [ female announcer ] new multi-grain cheerios peanut butter. [ female announcer ] new multi-grain cheerios according to the signs, ford is having some sort of big tire e

think about that, ronald reagan who i recall is not accused of being a tax then socialist understood it repeatedly that's when the deficit started to get out of control he would have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases. it multiple times. he could not get through a republican primary today. >>> and i asked our political analyst analyst about this. did we get a good president the ball was saying is the truth which is that all the republicans are looking for social conservatives in the fabric of someone like ronald reagan the positions they're being forced to take in some of the southern states are so extreme that their positions at more than likely president reagan wouldn't say get all those years ago when he ran. the republican race not be officially decided for while it may take ronnie ends the california primary and june 5th to get in the delegate count elizabeth cook cbs five. dozens of students pepper spray on campus, the running with university police. >>> what it's really like to lose your mind, to nice hobby by getting a startling firsthand look alzheimer's. dissua

reagan for tax increases own on the rich, ronald reagan was pro-abortion. have you ever stopped to realize, this bunch of people, the democrat party, barack obama, they hate reagan. they have always hated reagan. they engage in revisionist history about the reagan years. bill: it went on from there and does not end there either. much more on this and from rush limbaugh coming up a little later in the hour. stay tuned for that. fox news alert. this is a big story. this is not good. moments ago a spike in jobless applications 380,000 americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits. that arrow is up. stuart varney fox business network. the highest level in almost three months. what did the report say, stewart? >> this is the worsening in the jobs picture. it is bad news on the employment front. it is bad news for the overall economy and bad news politically for president obama. it looks like the economy has gone into reverse or retailers versed its course. last week we heard job creation rates cut in half. disposable income, that is cash in your pocket i

president has won election with a jobless rate above 6% except for ronald reagan and it was 7.2% when he won re-election in november of 2004. but washington pollster who is a republican says that impressions of the economy are locked in the late spring of an election year, and it is that mindset they take into the booth. here are three examples of what we is referring. to in george h.w. bush's first and only term, the unemployment was leaning downward heading into the election day, so voters would be willing to give him four more years, but with the crucial spring months that we have highlighted here, the unemployment rate was rising, and so according to his theory, that is what the voters took to polls. and same for jimmy carter, the unemployment was headed down leading into the election, but in the april, may, june springtime period, unemployment was rising and we know that he lost the bid despite a improving jobs pick chu. and now a president who won a second term, ronald reagan with a punishing unemployment rate topping 10% in the first term, because it was headed in the right dir

this is what ronald reagan wanted. lower, flatter tax rates will give americans more confidence in the future. it will mean if you work overtime or get a raise or promotion or if you have a small business, and are able to turn a profit, more of that extra income will end up where it belongs, in your wallet, not in uncle sam's pocket. when he was done reforming taxes, ronald reagan with, of course, the help of congress, they reduced the number of brackets from 14 to 2. his top tax bracket is 28. this president would like people on the upper end to be closer to 40. >> people actually worked together back then. fox news alert right now as you might have known from watching "fox & friends" first, north korea defying to launch a rocket. >> the former asian affairs director for the national security council and author of "the impossible state." good morning to you, victor. >> good morning. >> why do they need their own weather satellite? can't they just look at the weather channel? >> you know, i think it's a good question.

he was buried in california at the reagan -- ronald reagan presidential library. on his gravestone were inscribed words from the speech of the dedication of the library. i know in my heart that man is dead. that what is right will eventually try him if there is purpose and worth to each and every life. during his political career, -- today they are still those who belittle his career and the ultimate failure of soviet communism. but there are many others who remember reagan fondly and greatly, mainly from his record of 34 television network addresses to the american people. what these people were called him and no matter what their politics or his, was a man of great means. of straight talk. good humor and good will. he was a [cheers] president no matter what came his way. there were times he could be angry. reagan had a clear sense of right and wrong, which infuriated many of the leading academics and established journalists. most of whom still remain convinced that applying such moral convictions to politics can be dangerous. in contrast, reagan believed he knew