this gets me to dwight eisenhower. andy goodpastor, general andrew goodpastor, had be the closest aid to president eisenhower, staff secretary, but really the closest adds visier on national security affairs including all things nuclear. he told me friend in the years working for ike, the president had never told him when, if ever, he would be willing to use nuclear bombs. goodpastor doubted if ike would use it, but ike never told him. i thought, wow, talk about the loneliness of command. the awesome, awesome responsibility of having that power. it sounds grand, by, actually, it's true. it's not grand to say that dwight eisenhower was the first person in the history of the world to have the power to wreck mankind, october at least the northern hemisphere. he came to the prosecute sigh developing these incredible, frightening weapons and missiles to launch them. of course, the soviets were doing the same, and this created an unbelievable challenge for eisenhower. it was further complicated for eisenhower because he knew

eisenhower did also cypriot leaders agreed to a new bailout plan this morning to save their nation's banks it is a really change anything and it's time we started calling billionaires what they really are oligarchy so you why in tonight's deleted. you need to know this thirty years of reaganomics has left baby boomers and generation x. drowning in debt and now right now republicans want to force a generation y. or millennial into economic servitude you see up until the one nine hundred eighty s. . things were doing pretty good you could have you know a single person with a single income in a household which means you had an entire buffet that person lost their job their spouse could go to work a single person a single household could basically raise a family put kids through school buy a house own a car income was good ball average savings rates before reagan around eleven percent. now all this is changing now that we've done this incredible experiment of thirty two years of reaganomics. after about thirty years of reaganomics by two thousand and eight c.e.o. pay had exploded it drop

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relationship between president dwight eisenhower and vice president richard nixon. mr. frank reports nixon constantly salles eisenhower's approval while eisenhower was unsure of nixon's ability to assume the presidency. it's about one hour and ten minutes. it's my pleasure to introduce jeff frank. jeff is an accomplished writer. those of you that by the book today will be blessed in reading the pros just spent 13 years of the "washington post" and i am not sure that is where he learned how to write well but he learned how to get a good story and he was running the out section then he went to the new yorker and was a senior editor for nearly 13 years and that is the place you learn to write well. besides writing nonfiction, jeff has written three or 4i guess works of fiction so someone understands the importance of narrative and he brought that, for some reason for the relationship between eisenhower and nixon, and i want to begin by asking you why did you choose that particular marriage as the focus? >> because it really was a great story to the year it began with two p

when i tell you dwight eisenhower receives and vote -- a vote, i am not lying. so did richard nixon. whoever wrote to them in, they are not coming back and they are not running. the right hands went everywhere from allen west to condoleezza rice to judge andrew napolitano. of those rights in this, none of the right sense received more than 1%. while there were a whole lot of right hands and we had 67 candidates that actually receives votes, this is the largest group of candidates i have ever seen in a cpac straw poll. i can tell you, when i turned the next slide, abc, cbs, cnn are not going to be happy because their favorite candidate did not come in first. but your favorite candidate came in first. [cheers and applause] first with 25%, senator rand paul. behind him, right on his heels, literally -- virtually tied, florida senator marco rubio. [cheers and applause] rickyou have senator chris christie at 7% and so on from there. the 14% other were the individuals written in. that is what they equaled. thank you. year, thank you all. ladies and gentlemen, remain i

. >>> jeffrey frank recounts the personal and working relationship between president dwight eisenhower and vice president richard nixon. mr. frank reports nixon constantly sought eisenhower's approval while eisenhower was unsure of mix and's ability to assume the presidency. it's about one hour and ten minutes. [applause] >> welcome to all of you. it's my pleasure to introduce jeff frank. jeff frank is an accomplished writer. those of you that by the book today will be blessed in reading the pros. jeff spent 13 years of the washington post. i'm not sure that's where he learned how to write well but we get a good story and by the end he was in the outlook section and then he went to the new yorker and was a senior editor there for nearly 13 years and that is a place where you learn to write well and help others write well. besides writing nonfiction jeff has written three or 4i guess works of fiction so this is someone who understands the importance of narrative of a good story and he brought those talents for some reason to the relationship between eisenhower and nixon, and i want to b

eisenhower did also cypriot leaders agreed to a new bailout plan this morning to save their nation's banks it is a really change anything and it's time we started calling billionaires what they really are oligarchy so you why in tonight's deleted. you need to know this thirty years of reaganomics has left baby boomers and generation x. drowning in debt and now right now republicans want to force a generation y. or millennial into economic servitude. you see up until the one nine hundred eighty s. things were doing pretty good you could have you know a single person with a single income in a household which means that you had an entire buffer that person lost their job their spouse could go to work a single person a single household could basically raise a family put kids through school buy a house own a car income was good ball average savings rates before reagan around eleven percent now all this is changing now that we've done this incredible experiment of thirty two years of reaganomics. after about thirty years of reaganomics by two thousand and eight c.e.o. pay had exploded it d

the first live press conferences began in 1951 with dwight eisenhower. we continue with jim. caller: any time i hear obama speak, first of all, i can't believe half the words he says, but the news media doesn't challenge him on anything. the first thing he does is blame the republican party "they are not working with me, they are not doing this." but we all know the democrats are doing the same thing. they are telling people lies, not telling the truth. obama, his incompetence as a president, he blames -- this is why i'm not getting things done. he's supposed to be a leader of the people. the news media let's everything go, doesn't -- you know, obama is doing a great job and everything else. the american public knows it is not true. host: jim, thank you for the call. is that tactic different from president obama, president reagan, or president bush? guest: no. all presidents do that. the one point i totally agree with is that the press generally let's presidents say what they want to say and then challenges it in a different way. i mean, you get use today a president's normal

david eisenhower. eisenhower won that political battle as well, of course, but it energized men and women who would figure in the development of a new political movement, chief among them a housewife from illinois, who is here with us this weekend named phyllis schlafly. in 1960, the young americans for freedom forum at bill buckley's home in connecticut. stan evans, who is with us this weekend and received an award the other evening, and is a former chairman of the american conservative union, authored the statement at that organizing meeting, the statement which to this day stands as the best and most concise statement of conservative values written in the modern times. the movement was growing. at that year's convention, there was an attempt to nominate arizona senator barry goldwater for vice president. goldwater was the new conservative hero. he had written a conservative political manifesto called " conscience of a conservative," and like some today had the courage to stand up on the senate floor

general dwight eisenhower testified before congress in leadersd other senior talked about what is different about our system, how does this disciplined play out. that is what resulted in ucmj. need- say that there is no for the specialized system of court justice. you're providing too much of the role of commanders in command discretion in how you handle the conduct. that is what is being fought over and capitol hill. fromllies have gone away the commander-durbin justice system. the european commission on human rights directed that their militaries make that evolution in part because they looked at the commanders as having too much discretion to abuse the right. we're getting the opposite criticism now, that our commanders are not adequately enforcing the rights of victims. narrative, to me, the fundamental issue is, if we are going to achieve full equality for women in our armed forces across ranks, it is clear to be because we have opened up all our assignments to women, we have set the conditions for them to serve in every capability, we have ended the restrictions on sexual orientation

dwight eisenhower testified before congress in 1948, and other senior leaders talked about what is different about our system. what is the nature and how does it play out. that is the result. that is now under attack because what our critics are saying is there is no longer a need for the specialized system of military justice apart from our legal systems. you are providing too much of a role for commanders and the abuse of discretion and how you handle these. that is being peddled in capitol hill right now. we have largely got away from a commander justice system. hchr looked at the commanders as having too much discretion to abuse the rights of soldiers. we are getting the opposite, that our commanders are not adequately enforcing the rights of victims. with that narrative, to me, the fundamental issue is, if we are going to achieve full equality for women in our armed forces across the ranks, it would be because we have opened up all of our assignments to women, we have set the conditions for them to serve, and we have ended the restrictions on sexual orientation as anything to do with yo

this is a barn painted by dwight eisenhower. even president joe biden takes time out to paint. he got a gold star. more of a drawing, i guess. let's look at more of the bush paintings. because this is a president bush painting. i don't know if they're seashells or uncooked loins of meat. and look at this one. this one is thee matical icathe. the cat got stuck in what looked like a pumpkin. i think this is about the war in afghan stap. we are the cat and they are the pumpkin. not all of these paintings are cute. some are down right sexy like this portrait of vice president cheney washing a classic car. or water boarding it. it's hard to tell. i love the idea that george bush is at home painting pictures of pets now. i really -- it tickles me to no end. let's play a little game here. i'm going to show you a painting. you tell me if it was painting by former president bush or a child. we went online and we found some paintings made by little kids and let's see if you can tell which are which. ready? was this dog painted by a president or a kid? >> kid. >> jimmy: all right. it coul

eisenhower commanded our traps in world war ii. i hope he enters the public sphere of our country because he a fine human being with a lot of insights and remarkable ability to get to the heart of the matter and express it. >> greta: fresh faces, senator marco rubio, from the senate and candidates coming out of jobs from governors. governor scott walker, governor martinez. in looking at the party, should the party, if given a choice, with people with more experience as an executive or legislative? >> traditionally the republican party has tended to have more people come from the ranks of governors who have been successful in getting elected, governor ronald reagan, governor george w. bush. politics changes and the question is people are going to be looking at republican nominees from the perspective do they have the ability to lead the country. are they a leader? some of them bike bobby jindal or mickey haley or martinez of new mexico or john kas governor snyder, all these people may be able to emphasize their experience but also m

eisenhower commanded our traps in world war ii. i hope he enters the public sphere of our country because he a fine human being with a lot of insights and remarkable ability to get to the heart of the matter and express it. >> greta: fresh faces, senator marco rubio, from the senate and candidates coming out of jobs from governors. governor scott walker, governor martinez. in looking at the party, should the party, if given a choice, with people with more experience as an executive or legislative? >> traditionally the republican party has tended to have more people come from the ranks of governors who have been successful in getting elected, governor ronald reagan, governor george w. bush. politics changes and the question is people are going to be looking at republican nominees from the perspective do they have the ability to lead the country. are they a leader? some of them bike bobby jindal or mickey haley or martinez of new mexico or john kasich or governor snyder, all these people may be able to emphasize their experience but

eisenhower. he was famous for his love of the game. didn't seem to be a crime when he took out a driver. then there's president nixon, a chief executive who actually did commit crimes in the oval office. but his love of golf never overshadowed watergate. then there's the bushes. both father and son who also enjoyed getting out there on the links. i recall bush the younger fitting in policy announcements around the eighth hole. >> i call upon all nations to do what they can to stop these terrorist killers. thank you. now watch this drive. >> joining us now is msnbc political analyst michael eric dyson of georgetown university and our man on capitol hill, luke russert. mr. gohmert's amendment to the continuing resolution is d not make it. however, have heard from speaker boehner on this issue of tours to the public. let's take a listen to him. >> it's the idea that we're going to shut down tours at the white house during the easter season when washington's overwhelmed by visitors is just silly. and

eisenhower handled the suez crisis badly. long story short, the israelis, the french and the british -- now this is a conspiracy. spent genuine conspiracy. >> gets rid of the president of egypt. the united states decides not to back great britain and france but, in fact, puts real pressure on the british to get out of this. richard nixon and ledgers thought it was a mistake. that united states -- >> but he didn't say anything. >> however we look at it, he certainly thought, very, very open. he started talking about it. so he saw this as a mistake that eisenhower had made. and so i think that the were negative lessons. spent he also said a eisenhower changed his mind. i found no evidence eisenhower ever change his mind onto his. eisenhower sought he was taking a colonialist stand there and i saw no evidence eisenhower regretted what he had done. >> you will see in jeff's book that richard nixon was very interested in african leaders as he was in the '50s. by the chinese president, he doesn't think any action says africa is goi

ike, 1957, put nick goes up, what does dwight eisenhower do? he invests in a program to put our own satellite up in space. but he also invests in science. in creating a new generation of scientists, engineers, mathematicians. that allows -- >> rose: that's the kind of discretionary spending you'd like too see. >> that allows j.f.k. several years later to say "we're going to send a man to the moon by the end of the decade" and we do that and what happens? again, this is how i'm saying -- i've been saying it all the time. we're talking about 10%, 11%, the 12-% of the budget when we're talking about discretionary spending. that's short-sighted. you invest a n that, send a man to the moon but the most important thing j.f.k. said when he talked about sending a man to the moon by the end of the decade was creating a new generation of engineers and scientists and mathematicians. that night when neil armstrong walked on the moon the average age of the engineer in mission control was 28! and what aid that did for our economy over the next 30 years is in

. >>> plans for a national memorial honor honoring dwight d. eisenhower is up in the air. without an extension from congress this year, plans by architect frank gary could be scrapped. it includes 80-foot columns and metal tap pest tries. family says it should be about his humility. >> the design attempts to do too much. >> millions of dollars have been spent on the planning. congressional leaders say their priority is to get a memorial built soon. >>> supreme court herd arguments whether or not companies can be sued over generic brands. they want the high court to dismiss a judgment to karen bart let. she sued after 60% of her skin burned after she took a generic version of country morale. they said it should be dismissed because the compositions matched. court is expected to rule later this year. >>> what started this morning about a suspicious vehicle incal mafusz saint louis michigan, take a look. they open the car and out jumps a deer. the animal stumbles and dashes away. it was a patrol car dashcam that caught this. he planned to take it home for food. >>> will unman

eisenhower. taxpayers already spent millions of dollars for a memorial to be built in washington but not everyone is happy with the design. members of the eisenhower family are set to testify at a house subcommittee hearing to do about it. one proposal would get rid of the design by architect frank geary and start over with a new round of proposals. this has been brewing for a long time. >> is it --. is it likely that president obama will make any major concessions on the entitlement programs without more new taxes? and is it, or and the other side of that of course is, will republicans be willing to go along with more new taxes to get reforms in the enlightment programs? -- entitlement programs. unless you can answer to one of those questions or both of them the chances of a deal in the end of any size seem to be a little bit remote despite all of the atmospherics that we're seeing now. bill: how about that there? fox news senior political analyst brit hume in a handsome looking sweater i would

>> you know, with the exception of david and dwight eisenhower whose relationship it was probably more strained and tense, this has got to be the most dysfunctional relationship between an american president and an israeli prime minister probably in the history of the relationship. that's saying quite a lot because you've had a couple of pretty dysfunctional pairs. i think the president frankly is in israel because of the intersection of politics on one hand and policy on the other. you know, being good on israel helps him politically with republicans who continue to hammer the fact that somehow he's anti-israel. even among members of his own party, so i think he wants to clear that issue away to create a new relationship not only with netanyahu if he can but with the israeli public. and then there's some serious issues, not only syria, but the reality is if barack obama doesn't want to be the american president on whose watch iran gets a nuclear weapon and on whose watch the two-state solution to the israeli-palestinian problem expires, he's going to have to find a way to work with ne

eisenhower. the most popular item is a letter that marilyn monroe wrote to her acting teacher, describing her increasingly desperate mental state, including the passage quote, i'm still lost. i mean, i can't get myself together. i sound crazy but i think i'm going crazy. it's an amazing collection the likes of which we will probably never see again, mostly because, well, people just don't write letters anymore. somehow i just can't picture future auctions offering alec baldwin's e-mails or chevy chase's voice mails or kim kardashian's tweets. you want to see a piece of actual history in person, the items will be exhibited april 8th through 16th at douglas elements gallery in new york city and you can buy them at profiles in history on may 30th. thanks for being with me tonight. ha ha ha! no no no! not today! ha ha ha! ha ha ha! jimmy how happy are folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico? happier than dikembe mutumbo blocking a shot. get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save y

eisenhower. the most popular item is a letter that marilyn monroe wrote to her acting teacher, describing her increasingly desperate mental state, including the passage quote, i'm still lost. i mean, i can't get myself together. i sound crazy but i think i'm going crazy. it's an amazing collection the likes of which we will probably never see again, mostly because, well, people just don't write letters anymore. somehow i just can't picture future auctions offering alec baldwin's e-mails or chevy chase's voice mails or kim kardashian's tweets. you want to see a piece of actual history in person, the items will be exhibited april 8th through 16th at douglas elements gallery in new york city and you can buy them at profiles in history on may 30th. thanks for being with me tonight. coming up next, an anderson cooper special report. ♪ keep on going in this direction. take this bridge over here. there it is! [ man ] so i used mine to get a whole new perspective. [ laughter ] [ male announcer ] earn p

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eisenhower and dictator mussolini, some of the biggest interest have been letters from marilyn monroe to lee strasberg just before her suicide and here's some of what she wrote. look at this. i'm embarrassed to start this but thank you for understanding and having changed my life. even though you changed it, i still am lost. i mean, i can't get myself together. i think because everything is pushing against my concentration, everything one does or lives is impossible almost. and she continues saying, my will is weak, but i can't stand anything. i sound crazy but i think i'm going crazy. it's just that i get before a camera and my concentration and everything i'm trying to learn leaves me. then i feel like i'm not existing in the human race at all. the collection also includes a letter from john lennon to paul mccartney around the time the beatles broke up and you can see the animosity. lennon writes do you really think most of today's art came out because of the beatles? i don't believe you're that insane, paul. do you believe that? when you stop believing it, you might wake up. the it

dwight eisenhower testified andre congress in 1948, other senior leaders talked about what is different about our system. what is the nature and how does it play out. that is the result. that is now under attack because what our critics are saying is there is no longer a need for the specialized system of military justice apart from our legal systems. you are providing too much of a role for commanders and the abuse of discretion and how you handle these. in capitolng peddled hill right now. we have largely got away from a commander justice system. hchr looked at the commanders as having too much discretion to abuse the rights of soldiers. we are getting the opposite, that our commanders are not adequately enforcing the rights of victims. to me, thearrative, fundamental issue is, if we are going to achieve full equality for women in our armed forces across the ranks, it would be because we have opened up all of our assignments to women, we have set the conditions for them to serve, and we have ended the descriptions -- restrictions on sexual orientation as anything to do with your abili

eisenhower testified before congress in 1948, and collins testified as well and other senior leaders talked about what's different about the system, and what does it mean for good order and discipline, and how does it play out? that's ultimately the result of the ucmj. that system now is under attack because of what critics say that there's no longer a need for military justice separate apart from the military court justice system. you provide fooch a role for commanders and the abuse of command discretion in how you handle the problems. that's how it's seen on capitol hill now. our allies got away from a command driven justice system, in large part, european convention on human rights, the dchr, directed their militaries make the evolution in part because they looked at the commanders as having too much discretion to abuse the rights of soldiers. we get the opposite in the system now that our commanders are not adequately enforcing the rights of victims, and that i think with that narrative, to me, the fundmental issue here is if we achieve full quality for women in the ranks, that'

so general dwight eisenhower testified before congress in 1948, collins testified as well, and other senior leaders taught that what's different about our system, how does it play out. and that ultimately, ultimately to ucmj. that is now under attack because what our critical seems to is no longer any for special assistance of them to justice set them apart from our supreme court systems. you all are providing too much of a role for commanders and use of commander discretion in how you handle, so that's the court has been founded on capitol hill right now. our allies have largely gotten away from a commander justice system. in large part the european convention on human rights directed at their militaries make that evolution in part because they look at the commanders as having too much discretion to abuse the rights of soldiers. we're getting the opposite now. that our commanders are not adequately enforcing the rights of victims. i think with that narrative, to me the fundamental issue here is if we're going to achieve full equality for women in our armed forces, it's going to be b

. >> host: dwight eisenhower's heart attack is another of your seven event. >> guest: i know. i kazin heart attack while playing golf and coincides with the movement to have a boat crash on heart disease by the american heart association and the use heart attacks has the opportunity to press for more concerned about heart disease. there was that more heart disease. what was happening was we had our testing methods, so we were discovering more heart disease. it was like breast cancer. we had better tested methods of fighting breast cancer, which looks like an increase in the number of cases. so this gets taken over by a nutritionist at the university of minnesota need esops at esops agenda is to reduce fat in the diet because he sees a connection between heart disease, cholesterol. he manages to pack the appropriate committees of his people and they began a campaign to get americans to eat less fat and less me, to eat more carbohydrates. long story short the 1977, the committee is heavily lobbied and they put up the new food guidelines, 40% more cards, 40% less fat: says pretty

dwight eisenhower, you know, dealt the highways for national defense and ended, you know, started the business of an end to end infrastructure system here then we have done all the things with electrical generation and moving data around the world, you know, country. how do you see our infrastructure deal? of course you could talk for a minute or two about the airports, but you've got to get your people to work. you've got to move goods around the country. you've got, we have to have the mobility. you can have airports but if you can't get to them, that's the problem. >> this country has an infrastructure crisis. if you talk to the railroad guys, they will talk about the ports and the lack of modern infrastructure their that becomes a bottleneck as you are moving goods in and out of the country. talk about the condition of the track. if you just bring it home to aviation for a second, i forget the number exactly, that i think over the next 20 years the number of flight segments are almost going to double in this country. we do not have an aircraft management system that can handle tha

eisenhower had most dysfunctional relationship between any american president and israeli prime minister. the president made a political calculation and he was vulnerable and exposed on this he had to take care of old business. too many people thought he was somehow hostile and adversary of the state of the israel. that coincides with policy on two issues. this president doesn't want to be the american president that iran acquires nuclear capacity or a weapon and this president does not want to be the american president on whose watch the two-state solution expires. reality is, it is clear from the beginning you want to deal with these issues effectively, you have to find away to cooperate. intimately, with many parties but, at the top of the list is the state of israel and the prime minister. so i think the president went early because there are no expectations. and he went early because he really does, i think, want to see if he can find a way to work with prime minister netanyahu this time around plus the israeli government. jon: ambassador bolton, we heard shimon peres say to the pre

eisenhower was president. if we do it in a balanced way, we can reform our entitlements in a way to preserve these incredibly crucial programs for senior citizens for generations to come an strengthens them, rather than he alternative which is if you don't do it in a balanced way, you have to gut these programs or end them as we know them or voucherize them in a way that shifts costs to senior citizens. >> the president is -- has those in his party who are vehemently opposed to cuts in those. when will the president listen to his own party? >> i think the president made clear when he was here on friday, as he has many times, that he has made some tough choices in his proposals, that he understands are difficult for some democrats, often many democrats, to go along with. he believes they're within the context of a broader deal, you will, won the context of a balanced deal that includes tax reform, the entitlement reforms, it protects the seniors and others. i think your question in a way makes his point which i

eisenhowerght the -- red the amount of debt dwight d. eisenhower lowered the .mount of debt lbj started still -- stealing from social security to pay for the vietnam war. craig and split with the size of the military. george bush expanded the military greeley garrett we need to cut the military and raise taxes to pay the debt. -- and george bush expanded the military. we need to cut the military to raise taxes to pay the debt. i was the republicans would start upholding the constitution. guest: you are right. we need to pare debt and make sure we do not spend more than we take in. what level of taxes is too much? is 50% of what one makes to much? i was just it is. that is where we are from an individual in this country. the way you get the economy rolling again to create jobs and we'reople back to work, pushing 8% unemployment. come albany to make certain we get the economy rolling and one way to do that is pro-growth tax policy -- we need to make certain we get the economy rolling and one way to do that is pro-growth tax policy. the pre

caller: i wanted to point out that dwight d eisenhower was the last president to ever actually lower the amount of to the nation, and i believe he did that in two fiscal years. since then, we have been increasing the size of the military. stealing from social security to pay for the vietnam war. reagan ignorantly bloated the size of the military and tripled the debt in his presidency. george bush doubled the debt and extent of the military greatly. we need to cut the military. we need to raise taxes to pay for that. i would like to point out to the congressman the united states constitution actually states that the congress has the power to raise taxes. the very first thing it gives for that purpose is to pay the .ebt for the united states i wish republicans would actually start upholding the constitution. host: you made your point. let's get a response. guest: you are right, we need to pay our debt. is too much? taxes is 50% of what one makes too much? i would suggest that it is. that is basically where we are right now for many individuals in this country. we believe that the way y

president dwight d. eisenhower once said farming looks mighty easy when your plow's a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield. truer words were never spoken to describe the divide how agriculture is viewed between washington, d.c. and montana. agriculture is an essential part of who we are as montanans. 50% of montana's economy is tied to ranching and farming, supporting one in five jobs in montana. i had the privilege to grow up on a ranch outside helena, montana. it taught me firsthand the values of hard work, faith, family and doing what's right. those are the values i take to me with work every day. paul harvey, who got his start in broadcasting in montana, said it best in this poem, "so god made a farmer." "god looked down on the earth he created and said i need a caretaker for this world i made. and so god made a farmer. so as part of trying to bridge that divide between washington, d.c. and montana, i honor the strong legacy of farming and ranching montanans in montana by celebrating