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so ronald reagan had tip o'neill. when ronald reagan had confrontation with the congress and the other party about maybe shutting down the government, it was ronald reagan versus tip o'neill. when bill clinton had his confrontations with the congress and with the other party about maybe shutting down the government and, in fact, shutting down the government, he had his adversary, as well, and that, of course, was newt gingrich. so it was ronald reagan versus tip o'neill, it was bill clinton versus newt gingrich, and now it is barack obama versus who exactly? who is president obama negotiating with? who is this showdown in washington with? and, yes, john boehner has the same job title that tip o'neill and newt gingrich had, but nobody, nobody believes that john boehner is doing the same job that those guys did. in that nobody believes that john boehner speaks for anyone. when john boehner says republicans should do something, or that republicans are doing something, nobody believes republicans will actually do that thi

that was ronald reagan. and eventually ronald reagan came around to medicare and thought it was pretty good and actually helped make it better. so that's what's going to happen with the affordable care act. and once it's working really well, i guarantee you, they will not call it obama care. >> that was president obama today, apparently enjoying himself, giving his umpteenth speech about health reform, talking about obama care. he was at prince george's community college in largo, maryland, giving that speech today. but what the president said there in the end, about if health reform works out great, they sure won't call it obama care anymore. he has raised that issue before. he's shown an acute awareness that health reform is so closely associated with him personally. he told a funny story about it a couple days at the clinton global initiative. >> you know, in kentucky, it's called like kentucky connecticut, and in idaho, it's called the idaho health care exchange. and there's a story that came out of kent

that was ronald reagan. and eventually ronald reagan came around to medicare and thought it was pretty good and actually helped make it better. so that's what's going to happen with the affordable care act. and once it's working really well, i guarantee you, they will not call it obama care. >> that was president obama today, apparently enjoying himself, giving his umpteenth speech about health reform, talking about obama care. he was at prince george's community college in largo, maryland, giving that speech today. but what the president said there in the end, about if health reform works out great, they sure won't call it obama care anymore. he has raised that issue before. he's shown an acute awareness that health reform is so closely associated with him personally. he told a funny story about it a couple days at the clinton global initiative. >> you know, in kentucky, it's called like kentucky connecticut, and in idaho, it's called the didaho health care exchange. and there's a story that came out of ken

the real ronald reagan raised taxes 11 times as president. but the ronald reagan who republicans worship would never do that. then today, the head of the house foreign affairs subcommittee on the middle east actually said this. >> we have said this as a responsible nation that the use of chemical weapons is prohibited. it is against the norms of international standards, and to let something like this go unanswered i think will weaken the resolve. i know that president reagan would have never let this happen. he would have stood up to this. >> what president wouldn't have stood up to a middle east dictator using chemical weapons? well, the real ronald reagan wouldn't, and in fact, he didn't. in the regime, they used it repeatedly, and ronald reagan was his enabler. in review of documents, it shows that u.s. intelligence and logist logistical support played a crucial role inshorie i shoring attacks by iranian troops. ronald reagan and george bush authorized the sale of weapons, including poisonous chemicals and deadly biological viruss such as

that was ronald reagan. and eventually ronald reagan came around to medicare and thought it was pretty good and actually helped make it better. so that's what's going to happen with the affordable care act. and once it's working really well, i guarantee you, they will not call it obama care. >> that was president obama today, apparently enjoying himself, giving his umpteenth speech about health reform, talking about obama care. he was at prince george's community college in largo, maryland, giving that speech today. but what the president said there in the end, about if health reform work out great, they sure won't call it obama care anymore. he has raised that issue before. he's shown an acute awareness that health reform is so closely associated with him personally. he told a funny story about it a couple days at the clinton global initiative. >> you know, in kentucky, it's called like kentucky connecticut, and in idaho, it's called the didaho health care exchange. and there's a story that came out of kent

on ronald reagan's budget. it is obvious there are votes there to pass this budget right now th democrats andan republicans voting for it, but is it headading off the cliff? >> the so-called rule is a self- imposed rule by republicans themselves, and john boehner is the one observing that rule. he ought not to do t that, but e is in an a awful position. he has week after week, day after day, ad nauseam, said that the president has to negotiate with them, but he cannot negotiate with his own caucus. how does the president sit down with john boehner and negotiate anything wn whenever john boehner tries to negotiate may not stick? charles said rightly if the republicans were smart, and i think i am quoting you correctly, if the republicans are e smart they would pass a continuing resolution. what ds that say about the house republicans? maybe they are not so smartt because when john boehner came to them with the suggestion, let's take our fight to the debt ceiling, they did not do it. they still want fight over th

ronald reagan shipped over 1,000 missiles to iran in the 1980s. iran. yes. this is after the iranian hostage crisis. this is in the middle of kind of another iranian hostage crisis. this is in the middle of the iran/iraq war when we were supposedly siding with iraq against iran. you cannot send missiles to iran. there's an arms export control act passed by congress signed by the president. actual in place u.s. law which says you cannot send missiles to iran. or any other kind of weapon. president ronald reagan did it anyway. and that was not only mind blowing that a u.s. president would secretly do something like that. it was also very plainly illegal. in the uncomplicated sense of their being a law in place that says you cannot do that and he did it anyway, this was not a subtle thing. the president was told he could do this blatantly illegal thing by this man, ronald reagan's attorney general ed meese who argued the president's inherent powers as commander in chief, he could violate any law he wanted to as long as it was related to national security. not o

ronald reagan shipped over 1,000 missiles to iran in the 1980s. iran. yes. this is after the iranian hostage crisis. this is in the middle of kind of another iranian hostage crisis. this is in the middle of the iran/iraq war when we were supposedly siding with iraq against iran. you cannot send missiles to iran. there's an arms export control act passed by congress signed by the president. actual in place u.s. law which says you cannot send missiles to iran. or any other kind of weapon. president ronald reagan did it anyway. and that was not only mind blowing that a u.s. president would secretly do something like that. it was also very plainly illegal. in the uncomplicated sense of their being a law in place that says you cannot do that and he did it anyway, this was not a subtle thing. the president was told he could do this blatantly illegal thing by this man, ronald reagan's attorney general ed meies who argued the president's inherent powers as commander in chief, he could violate any law he wanted to as long as it was related to national security. not o

on ronald reagan's budget. it is obvious there are both there to pass this budget right now with democrats and republicans voting for it, but is it heading off the cliff? >> the so-called rule is a self- imposed rule i republicans themselves, and john boehner is the one observing that rule. he ought not to do that, but he is in an awful position. he has had week after week, day after day, acknowledging, that the president has to negotiate with them, but he cannot negotiate with his own caucus. how does the president said down with john boehner and negotiate anything one whenever john boehner try to negotiate may not stick? charles said rightly if the republicans were smart, and i think i am quoting you correctly, if the republicans are smart they would pass a continuing resolution. what does that say about the house republicans? maybe they are not so smart because when john boehner came to them with the suggestion, let's take our fight to the debt ceiling, they did not do it. they still want to fight over the c

on ronald reagan's budget. it is obvious there are votes there to pass this budget right now with democrats and republicans voting for it, but is it heading off the cliff? >> the so-called rule is a self- imposed rule by republicans themselves, and john boehner is the one observing that rule. he ought not to do that, but he is in an awful position. he has week after week, day after day, ad nauseam, said that the president has to negotiate with us, but he cann negotiate with his own caucus. how does the president sit down with john boehner and negotiate anything when whenever john boehner tries to negiate may not stick? charles said rightly if the republicans were smart, and i think i am quoting you correctly, if the republicans are smart they would pass a continuing resolution. what does that say about the house republicans? maybe they are not so smart because when john boehner came to them with the suggestion, let's take our fight to the debt ceiling, they did not do it. they still want to fight over the closi

in support of ronald reagan. but the element here carville is that many people think that barack obama is incompetent. and he can't -- he can't do this. >> well, i will definitely -- handled the middle east pretty well so far. >> really? you really think so. >> yeah. have had revolutions in tunisia and egypt all across the place. again. >> libya a mess. iran is defiant. >> come on, look. when is all of this -- when was it not? i mean, gaddafi is gone. it is a mess, i agree with that it's a mess and we haven't lost any kids over there which says something and. >> i'm not sure that's a litmus test, it doesn't seem to be any clear vision on the part of president obama. he doesn't have -- here is what i want. he doesn't have that. >> he will with, you know, what i would say and maybe a little bit of a different view here. i think what really have freaking people out is the incompetence of the bush administration in iraq. >> bill: doesn't blame bush. of course, the iraq thing is why people have so much trepidation abo

on ronald reagan's budget. it is obvious there are both there to pass this budget right now with democrats and republicans voting for it, but is it heading off the cliff? >> the so-called rule is a self- imposed rule i republicans themselves, and john boehner is the one observing that rule. he ought not to do that, but he is in an awful position. he has had week after week, day after day, acknowledging, that the president has to negotiate with them, but he cannot negotiate with his own caucus. how does the president said down with john boehner and negotiate anything one whenever john boehner try to negotiate may not stick? charles said rightly if the republicans were smart, and i think i am quoting you correctly, if the republicans are smart they would pass a continuing resolution. what does that say about the house republicans? maybe they are not so smart because when john boehner came to them with the suggestion, let's ta our fight to the debt ceiling, they did not do it. they still want to fight over the clo

it was the first debate between ronald reagan. it took place in louisville, kentucky in the basement of the hall. underneath, we were watching the television. myself and a senator in nevada. we watched the debate. you may remember at the end of that debate, president reagan was wondering off. it was not his strongest moment. the minute it was over, jim turned up the tv and looked at us and you could've heard a pin drop in that room. he said, we want now go out and tell the media we won. we had to go out and spin the media. now, it is ridiculous. it is what we call spin alley. each side has maybe 20 spokespeople. governors and senators and members of congress. they have people holding a sign up with their name on it so the media can see them in the crowd of people afterward. it has gotten to the point of being ridiculous. it is something i want to spend some time on between now and the 2016 debates. m is 100% right. what we did for a few years and we don't anymore, we used to have debate hardee's all over the united states sponsore

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it was the first debate between ronald reagan. it took place in louisville, kentucky in the basement of the hall. underneath, we were watching the television. myself and a senator in nevada. we watched the debate. of may remember at the end that debate, president reagan was wondering off. it was not his strongest moment. over, jim it was turned up the tv and looked at us and you could've heard a pin drop in that room. said, we want now go out and tell the media we won. and spin theout media. now, it is ridiculous. it is what we call spin alley. each side has maybe 20 spokespeople. governors and senators and members of congress. they have people holding a sign up with their name on it so the media can see them in the crowd of people afterward. it has gotten to the point of being ridiculous. to spendething i want some time on between now and the 2016 debates. is 100% right. what we did for a few years and we don't anymore, we used to have debate hardee's all over the united states sponsored by the commission. people would gather in

trickle-down economics, ronald reagan. brought the philosophy if the wealthy people don't pay much in taxes, our job market is going to go nuts. ronald reagan said we've got to deregulate wall street. ronald reagan campaigned hard against medicare. and how many lives has medicare saved and the quality of life for people in their later years has been just enhanced dramatically? reagan was against all of that. and we have put up with a set of basics dealing with reagan -- reagan's economic philosophy for the past 35 years. so where are we right now? it amazes me that people don't love obama. it amazes me that the conservatives who are seeing the stock market go through the roof in dealing with a president who has pretty much been hands-off on wall street, it just amazes me he can't get above 50% when it comes to a favorable view of the economy. well, you see, reaganonmikes sent our nation into the worst financial crisis since the great depression. it all started with lehman brothers. remember them? lehman brothers. weren't t

. >> ronald reagan if he were president, we'd get assad like that. he would. he would get assad. if president reagan had looked at assad and said "don't you use gas or you're gonna pay a price" and he did, reagan would have gone right in. >> i know that president reagan would have never let this happen. he would stand up to this. we have to think like president reagan would do and he would say chemical use is unacceptable. >> stephen: yes, we conservatives have an uncondition nee ability to know what ronald reagan would do at any given time. (laughter) syrian conflict? invade. obamacare? repeal. soup or salad? jelly beans. (laughter) that's why we know, we conservatives know the gipper would never stand for the use of chemical weapons-- today. of course, in the 190s his administration ignored chemical attacks by saddam hussein that killed thousands of iranian troops and looked the other way when saddam gassed his own kurdish citizens, but, remember, that's the old reagan. (laughter) we're talking about hypothetical contemporary superreagan. (cheers and applause) the man who never

anybody who served ronald reagan has fought them their entire career. margaret thatcher fought the equivalent of the same in britain. these are people who are quite happy with the status quo. they want to timidly play around on the fringes but they like big government. look at the past administration. prior to obama, the bush administration. several of his staffers commentators on fox. bush never. neil: careful there, young man. >> just being honest, they're all over the place. they're not really troubled by any of this. the fact of the matter is george w. bush bloated the dead. the second high nest american history, but for barack obama, the problem is the gerald ford, john mccain, romney wing of the republican party has the man tell, but the great roots wants nothing to do with them. the tea party came to be not just because of barack obama because of the days with push, with t.a.r.p., massive spending-subsidies gm and choice. people have had enough, and when these people -- moderates and rhinos say weed in to be start, when is the last time they were

so ronald reagan had tip o'neil. when ronald reagan had confrontation with the congress and the other party about maybe shutting down the government, it was ronald reagan versus tip o'neil. when bill clinton had his confrontations with the congress and with the other party about maybe shutting down the government and, in fact, shutting down the government, he had his adversary as well, and that, of course, was newt gingrich. so it was ronald reagan versus tip o'neil, it was bill clinton versus newt gingrich, and now it is barack obama versus -- who, exactly? who is president obama negoat

ronald reagan made it clear the political party has got to stand for something. we cannot have a tent so big nobody knows what we believe in, but we have to be able to articulate our beliefs. we have to be able to say we believe in the free enterprise system, and we believe in it not only because it makes people wealthy. we believe in it because it has raised more people out of poverty than any other system invented by men. we are the people of opportunity. we know the american dream can be real again, but it is not going to be real if every single young person falls under the well of a rock obama and the democrats, who are attempting to say, let's give you assistance all along the way. as a mother of five kids, it is amazing for me to sometimes think about the fact that none of them when know what the soviet union was if i was not telling them. there is a history that seems recent to many of us, but to get today they did not live through the fall of communism. they did not live through watching nations try to control every aspect of their citizens lives fall apa

so ronald reagan had tip o'neill. when ronald reagan had confrontation with the congress and the other party about maybe shutting down the government, it was ronald reagan versus tip o'neill. when bill clinton had his confrontations with the congress and with the other party about maybe shutting down the government and, in fact, shutting down the government, he had his adversary, as well, and that, of course, was newt gingrich. so it was ronald reagan versus tip o'neill, it was bill clinton versus newt gingrich, and now it

ronald reagan and john anderson a congressman from illinois. jimmy carter refused to participate. anderson was invited because the league of women voters said you had to be at 15% at the polls to participate. anderson was 16. jimmy carter said i won't debate if he's in it. anderson fell at 12% at the second poll and carter and reagan began the debate. that began the takeoff point of the debate. in then in 1984 that series of debates had a great deal of controversy with the media because the two candidates were given the right to veto of moderator. in those days they had a moderator and 3 or 4 reporters and the two candidates vetoed over 90 reporters there. were two independent studies done starting in 1985. one was at the institute of politics at harvard and the other was center of strategic national studies at georgetown. both were studying not just the debate process but both of them independently came to the conclusion there should be created an entity. both groups came to the chairman and me and we created the commissioner in 1986. and we began our 25-year run with the first d

we had barry goldwater in 1964, who went on to lose, and then ronald reagan who went on to win two terms. now, george w. bush, who i have a lot of crift schisms of -- criticisms of him in the book, he was influenced by the conservative movement and had movement conservatives in the administration as his father did, but he, himself, was not a philosophically small government type of guy. i agree, a big problem in terms of actual conservatives winning the republican nomination is the fact that a lot of the conservatives who would be qualified or who are seen as qualified to be president come from, you know rural distributes or southern united states and it's a regional and cultural battle in the minds of a lot of people. frequently, what happens is the conservative candidates who appeals most to conservatives in the republican primaries, talking about presidential primaries, tebdz -- tends to be the can date who doesn't have the money to go the distance to fight with the establishment candidate, and one who with more money and better organization tends to, for whatever reason, not connect

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ronald reagan turned the country to the right where it remains today. there was indeed a reagan revolution. he kept a sense of humor after the attempt telling his wife nancy i forgot to duck and before the surgery, and a very close operation, he asked that all of them were republicans. [laughter] they thought the government was the least government but the top people didn't think so. they looked at the charge just like everyone else and he did begin the arms race with the former soviet union which was us all that broke the camel's back in the cold war no question. i remember going to moscow with president reagan when he was going to meet with mikhail gorbachev. suddenly the evil empire was no more and he knew that they laughed and cried and they were human. when we got back to washington i said mr. president, do you think maybe if you had gone to moscow ten years ago, 20 years ago he might have found out the russians laughing and crying and they are human? nope, said the change. [laughter] george bush 41, george bush won best known for the persian gulf

remember, ronald reagan, bill clinton, george herbert walker bush, they all worked with congress. the reason why they were successful, i include bill clinton in that list, because he was willing to negotiate. no one gets anywhere if you don't negotiate. you're all married here at this taebl. when you're married, you negotiate. you don't -- i celebrated my 35th wedding anniversary. you don't stay in that situation without negotiating. >> there is a reason this is weird. all these other times you're talking about, we were never down graded. this was a part of normal legislation. because of this kind of extortion -- i'll use the term extortion. this is so outside of our normal -- >> van, no other president has had trillion dollar a year deficit. that's extremely important. >> you ran for president. if you were president of the united states -- >> oh, gee, wouldn't that be a dish. >> exactly. if you were president of the united states and you had a democratic congress that came to you and said you got to triple the funding for planned parenthood or we'll shut the congress down, would

well the time has come you've seen the map reagan is our projected winner ronald wilson reagan ronald reagan's reelection provided greater impetus for the political plans of anti castro exiles in florida having understood that violence alone could not bring down the cuban government jorge muskaan also founded the cuban american national foundation with political action committees and lobbyists with reagan support moscow and also encourage cuban americans who shared his agenda to run successfully for congress we are really the voice of the cuban american community in miami and we hope to have to convey to the all that fellow anglos our feelings about communism and why we're here in this country. it's happening in cuba is not a failure of the cuban people it's a failure of sidel castro in the front three. thousand nine hundred eighty seven the soviet communist system was very sick but you know castro refused to give up the berlin wall. coast along in. the fall of. the soviet union comes to an end in november one thousand nine hundred one the economy is going into a freefall and they. de

well the time has come you've seen the map reagan is our projected winner ronald wilson reagan ronald reagan's reelection provided greater impetus for the political plans of anti castro exiles in florida having understood that violence alone could not bring down the cuban government jorge moscow and also founded the cuban american national foundation with political action committees and lobbyists with reagan support moscow and also encouraged cuban americans who shared his agenda to run successfully for congress we are really the voice of the cuban american community in miami and we hope to have to convey to the all that fellow anglos our feelings about communism and why we're here in this country. it's happening in cuba is not a failure of the cuban people it's a failure of adele castro and of. one thousand nine hundred eighty seven the soviet communist system was very sick but you know castro refused to give up the berlin wall. coast along in. the fall of. the soviet union. in november one thousand nine hundred one the economy is going into a freefall and they. decide that they have

>> if he had acted, as ronald reagan did, as bill clinton did, as a number of other president did, in compliance basically with the war powers act, i think he could have done that. and that would have been a decision made by the president. but at the eleventh hour, when the strikes-- leaks have been massive, and unprecedented it's strikes are already planned. we know what ships are there, we know how many missiles -- unprecedented leak ago then a reverse at this point i think has serious consequences as far as steadfastness and purpose of this administration. >> major: the president of the united states called you yesterday and has asked you to come to the white house tomorrow. tell us more. >> well, the president said he wanted to talk with me and with lindsey graham. >> and know many other members of congress on this issue. i am very glad to do that. but we have to have a plan. has to be a strategy. it can't just be, in my view, pin prick cruise missiles -- as we know, the syrians are moving their people around, and adjusting to the possibilities of a well-leaked attack. and so we n

and ronald reagan provided a marked contrast. they act as though reagan was a, was just sunshine all the time. and if you watched anything from that 1980 campaign, you saw that reagan was far from sunshine a lot of the time. reagan was pretty viciously attacking jimmy carter as an incompetent, as somebody who didn't know what he was doing, and as somebody who was opening danger to american lives because of what he was doing with the soviet union. he budget afraid to make attacks -- he wasn't afraid to make attacks on jimmy carter, and that contrast allowed him to win. there's something else that people forget about reagan winning in 1980, and this, i think, is something that conservatives really need to take into account. bad economies do not help republicans. bad economies help liberals. this is why fdr was able to win four separate elections while having the worst economy in mesh history -- american history. that's why that election was close in the latter days, that gap was closing. it only ended up being a blowout because of

know ronald reagan took his nap every day four o'clock ronald reagan watched saddam hussein gas you know at least one hundred thousand iranians killed a million oh yeah the chemical warfare between iraq and iran anyway i mean ever did anything about that he said it out of it we stayed out of that sort of you know we have to react isn't necessarily here is go golfing he took a nap that was good and i'm going to take a nap so i got there while politicians in washington are debating whether to go to war with syria. and increasingly it seems like it's not even a debate a powerful texas republican is preparing his state to secede from the union in an interview with world net daily which is going to birth their headquarters texas railroad commissioner barry smith airman who is running to be the next state attorney general in texas said the texas not only has the capability to survive without the rest of the nation but use also taking steps right now to prepare for that day should it come smith and said that generally speaking we have made great progress of becoming an independent nation w

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of the united states they thought they were viewing the united states ronald reagan but they were not they were viewing the united states of franklin delano roosevelt it's the america today that is the america of ronald reagan in other words this policies are now really being felt i find that many american and western economists in general so indoctrinated their sort of embrace. capitalist system so just as blindly as they used to decry the communist system but when we look at the successful models both among developed and developing countries usually. models represent some mixture of capitalism with. very generous those of socialist policies and no where would be one example china is a very different example but they are also mixing the two doesn't mean that pure capitalism doesn't exist on may be simply not realistic in the same way that pure communism wasn't really but i think you're getting at a very important point i mean there is no such thing as just capitalism there are many varieties of capitalism and so the variety that we have now i guess is the most pure form that we've se

a lot of folks forgot what ronald reagan said about governments ultimate cost. >> the nine most terrifying words in english language are i am i'm from the government and i'm here to neil: this simple question. once we heard the attorney general eric holder were flying out to detroit, they could picking up a tad more than just their plane tickets. just a few hundred million bucks, and a carry-on as well. that has a weird sounding situation. >> i think it shows two things, that our accounting department doesn't know where our dollars are, or that -- neil: where did we come up with this? >> pretty much. and the government basically wanted to look like they are the knight in shining armor and rescue the cities. and what we are doing is rescuing them. neil: they are not rescuing them with that kind of terminology, they are is no rescue being planned, but normally when you come to $300 million, you left a lot of folks thinking that's. >> the distinction and the thing is that detroit cannot pay their loans. it was federal money committed for a variety of reasons, redirected to the same thing that

you heard parallel things about the death of freedom, end of america from ronald reagan, bob dole, people who then gave up on that deal once medicare was the law of the land. also in 1964 republicans nominated barry goldwater. he was an extremist, mainstream of the party, money supported nelson rockefellers, moderate republicans that worked with the other side and establishment lost control. the result was the modern low percentage of the vote republicans have ever gotten. so i think the kind of worse case scenario for them is something happens. the monkeys stay in control of the zoo and get control of the presidential nominating process. they nominate someone who can't win but lose by a margin that will do harm to the party. >> to stick with historical analogy, what happened is they realized they had this problem, consensus candidate, somebody who could marshall right wing base but sound plausible to people in the middle and eventually got to ronald reagan who started off in the '60s but eventually became their broad-based candidate. is there anyone that you can see on the horizon that c

know ronald reagan took his nap every day of four o'clock ronald reagan watched saddam hussein gas you know at least one hundred thousand iranians killed a million oh yeah the chemical warfare between iraq and iran i mean reagan ever did anything about that he said it out of it we stayed out of that sort of you know we have to react isn't necessarily here is go golfing he took a nap that was good and i'm going to take a nap so i got it. while politicians in washington are debating whether to go to war with syria. and increasingly it seems like it's not even a debate a powerful texas republican is preparing his state to secede from the union in an interview with world net daily which is going to birth their headquarters texas railroad commissioner barry smith airman who is running to be the next state attorney general in texas said the texas not only has the capability to survive without the rest of the nation but use also taking steps right now to prepare for that day should it come smith and said that generally speaking we have made great progress of becoming an independent nation we

so ronald reagan had tip o'neil. when ronald reagan had confrontation with the congress and the other party about maybe shutting down the government, it was ronald reagan versus tip o'neil. when bill clinton had his confrontations with the congress and with the other party about maybe shutting down the government and, in fact, shutting down the government, he had his

just like ronald reagan. bringing things back. progressive ideas would have been discredited for a generation. so, whatever frustrations progressives have right now, i think they should look at the glass half full and say that the country dodged a bullet last year, and ryan plan went from being something that was a serious possibility to being a fantasy. repealing obamacare, which they did 31 times, they could repeal it another 131 times and wouldn't make a bit of difference. the president has the veto pen until 2017. the demographics of the country continue to move in a progressive direction. so, are these obstruction issues and the problems that the president himself has in getting his agenda through and being as effective as his supporters would like him to be, and joe and i will talk about these. but something pretty big happened, and i just want to close with a couple of stories. from the -- toward the end of the book. so, some of you remember donald trump's offer to president obama, and the subtitle of my book is" obama and