. - we call on ronald reagan to withdraw from the presidential race. - you couldn't push ronald reagan, because he'd push right back. - i'm going to abide by the wishes of the people, not the politicians. [hip-hop music] ♪ - even today, most republicans worth their flag pins shout out "ronald reagan" and align themselves with his brand of conservatism. back in 1964, barry goldwater-- all chiseled jaw and strong beliefs-- defined what it meant to be a conservative. goldwater sowed the seeds for ronald reagan-- then a hollywood actor-- to enter politics with a speech on the 1964 convention floor. reagan debuted his winning oratory, but the rest, as they say, is not quite history. now it's rare that two people who lost could become such influential members of their parties, but it's long been said that goldwater and reagan lost their races in 64' and 76', but won the future. [rhythmic music] ♪ - i suggest tonight that the liberal approach to america's problems has failed miserably in every sphere of activity. [rock music] ♪ - he was really a man of the west, and the old-fashioned we

now, people who love ronald reagan, love this speech. honestly, people who just love american politics love this speech. this speech from ronald reagan a week before the election has come to be known as the time for choosing speech. ronald reagan delivered it as a paid ad on national tv exactly one week before american voters went to the polls in november 1964 to choose between lbj and barry gold water. >> you and i have a ran day view with destiny. preserve for our children the last best hope of man on earth or sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness. >> even if you disagree with the political philosophy, even if you disagree with the case he laid out in that speech, it's funny, going back and listening to it now, i forgotten how snarkky and snide it was. it gets talked about like it was reagan receiving wisdom on stone tablets. he was up there throwing shame and insults. regardless of what you think of reagan, regardless of what you think of that speech itself. that speech from october 1964, it will always

he said, ronald reagan called american the shining city on a hill. donald trump sees america as a crime scene. he did not say america on a shining hill. and then hillary clinton, one of my favorite historians, everything could have been different, right? there's no reason city on a hill ever had to become attached to america, but it's proven durable, tired and i think even the way it gets trotted out as a tagline. it has become a clichÉ. you don't believe a city on a hill or a maybe a ted cruz in the republican campaign saying we used to be a city on a hill until barack obama and now we are no longer city on a hill, vote for me and we will again be the city on a hill. so it has -- it's a phrase that has now -- it has to carry so much weight, baggage that i fear the phrase was burning itself out. at first i heard it much less in the 2016 campaign compared to 2012, compare today 2008 but here it is again in the last fazes of the 2016 campaign. to the best of my knowledge donald trump has not used it directly and maybe make america great again an invoc

no, there will never be another ronald reagan or winston churchill. however, are the scenarios similar? i would argue vociferously they are right now. to the late 1970s. back then we had slow growth. we had an america that was lost in the world. we had a dangerous world. we had a crisis of confidence. we had a malaise self-described by the then president jimmy carter. we have a very similar scenario right now and we also have another outsider. we have donald trump who is saying i am ready to smash the political class. i'm ready to smash the crony capitalist system that k street has constructed in washington, d.c. and guess what? the people are rallying to that cry. so i think it's working so far and it will continue to work into november because the macro issues of prosperity and security are on our side and the status quo -- >> that's not working. what you're talking about is not the message of these debates the news every night. it's about machado, about a guy that ran the miss universe contest who wanted to be hugh hefner. it's all about his social

we associate city on a hill not with kennedy but with ronald reagan. anyone who remembers the 1980s, we think of christian charity and john winthrop and city on a hill as one of ronald reagan's signature trademark taglines and he used it in more than a dozen speeches. very successful appropriation, a phrase that had belonged to the democratic party, taken taken by reagan as early as 1968, taken by a speech he gave at eisenhower college, no longer in business. it attaches city on a hill to america and then in the 1970 begins uses the phrase routinely, often at at the end of his speeches, as an inspirational model for america to live up to, this is what we are and who we are and who we are called to be. >> when we think of ronald reagan don't we think of a shining city on his hill. >> we do. >> i haven't spent much time speculating why he added shining , what we see is the five by seven card at the reagan library in california. when we look at those cards that he kept across his whole career for speech preparation, we find one card that has less than a p

no, there will never be another ronald reagan or winston churchill. however, are the scenarios similar? i would argue vociferously they are right now. to the late 1970s. back then we had slow groit. we had an america that was lost in the world. we had a dangerous world. we had a crisis of confidence. we had a malaise self-described by the then president jimmy carter. we have a very similar scenario right now and we also have another outsider. we have donald trump who is saying i am ready to smash the political class. i'm ready to smash the crony capitalist system that k street has constructed in washington, d.c. and guess what? the people are rallying to that cry. so i think it's working so far and it will continue to work into november because the macro issues of prosperity and security are on our side and the status quo -- >> that's not working. what you're talking about is not the message of these debates the news every night. it's about machado, about a guy that ran the miss universe contest who wanted to be hugh hefner. it's all about his social

that is sent exactly what happened because ronald reagan knows what he wanted. i don't think there was time over the weekend. he knew what he sought and that was pretty enough for him. they went back and forth it is wonderful to read the notes and the transcripts of the soviet no takers it is a case study of leadership that last half-hour when they were trying to bridge the gap and a start to talk about the situation to begin each other's shoes. reagan was talking up a problem gorbachev might have with the kremlin how-tos of its and he started to talk about reagan's problems and it was beautiful. they were pleading with each other. , on. reagan was the best we had seen you went to the ambassador's house for u.s. staying in he was just walking back and forth about what might have spent his handler at the of miller center from the university of virginia just as nancy was going into surgery and was educated. and star wars sinks the summit title think that was fair. i think gorbachev trying to sell that at the end of the summit not on sunday morning but you are righ

ronald reagan was the maddest we've ever seen. we went back to the ambassador's house where he was staying, minus the ambassador who had been kicked out for the weekend. and he was just walking back and forth and back and forth and absolutely furious about what might have been. his handler, the fellow who was with him, jim -- i forgot his last name -- for eight years in the white house to handle where he goes and stuff like that, gave -- at the miller center at the university of virginia said basically he's never seen the president so agitated as as this time except when nancy was going into surgery. and he was agitated. strobe, there is the picture you chose. and the no deal star wars sinks, the summit. i didn't think that was fair. i thought gorbachev's tying of star wars to the end of the summit that was not done until sunday morning really sank it. strobe, you are right that star wars was at the center of the controversy for that. and it was all a failure. it was one big failure. and so that's basically what happened. a lot of

>> at one point senator cain said the plan was like the 1986 act by ronald reagan. any thoughts on that? >> repeat that again? >> is used then our plan was like ronald reagan when in 1986. >> i don't know exactly what he meant by that. i didn't hear that clearly as you stated. the 1986 plan was flawed because promiseamnesty with a in the future. donald trump is absolutely clear that he will not make that mistake again. the first thing that you should do is end the laws on immigration and amend them and then work with people that have been here a long time. [inaudible conversations] >> i think the vast majority of second amendment supporters and gunowners actually do support reasonable gun restrictions such as having background checks, such as making sure terrorists who can't fly can't produce firearms.e and i think whether you are an and or a member or a gun owner, as i am, i think those are reasonable things. >> how would the position actually get -- >> i would simply go back to the overwhelming numbers with gunowners support reasonable background checks and look a

everett coop was the surgeon general under ronald reagan. that i went over there as a sophomore in college to figure out life and that is when i left fundamentalism to become presbyterian. >> you consider yourself the evangelical today? >> i do not a lot of people who would classify me that way. and that is one of my own objections they are not as often as malleable or subtle as they might be in to be more precise and it just doesn't lead to that type of clarity even though it is a complicated matter and what that might mean for american public life. >> what was your goal with your book? >> in some ways it was personal to put into print perceptions that i had one working for the intercollegiate studies institute the academic nonprofits of wilmington and delaware and rose in the 1950's as part of the conservative movement and they're originally called the intercollegiate society of the individuals. and russell clark said individual is some was that bad word so they kept the initial san change their name. by trying to figure out why they did n

to the white house rewind, the 1984 presidential debate between ronald reagan and walter mondale. five days before, the explosives were on their way and they were not taken. the terrorists have won each time. the president didn't retaliate. >> we will not simply kill some people to say we got even. we want to know when we retaliate that we are retaliating against those responsible for the terrorist acts. that our own united states capital has been bombed twice. >> for a complete schedule, go to c-span.org. all weekend long, american history tv is joining our cable partners to showcase the history of. he a, illinois. illinois.- of urea, we continue now with our look at the area.y of your ar >> if you look at the county in , it has fluctuated back-and-forth between republican and democrat, but it is a good cross-section of the country. , rural, bign , and good common sense midwestern people. district are a good reflection of that. they love their country. attributes reflect peoria. does not get any richer than that in terms of history. he was the house minority leader for 12 of thos

ronald reagan: i have traveled the banquet circuit many years. i've never quite understood the logistics of dinners like this and how the absence of one individual can cause three of us to not have seats. [laughter] >> vice president, i'm glad to see you here tonight. you have said many times in this campaign you want to get america back to the little guys. [laughter] . vice president, i am that man. [laughter] >> it is an honor to share this with the descendent of the great al smith. your great-grandfather was my they were kind of governor. [laughter] the kind who ran for president and lost. [laughter] >> you are right. paign to require a lot of wardrobe changes. blue jeans for the morning, suits for a fundraiser, a sport coat for dinner. it is nice to finally relax and wearwhat ann and i around the house. >> watch the dinner with hillary clinton and donald trump thursday night. listen at 9:00 with the c-span radio app. >> each week until the 2016 election, we bring you archival coverage of presidential races. next, from 1984, the second and fin

ronald reagan said something interesting about nuclear proliferation. he said the problem with nuclear proliferation is some fool or maniac could trigger a catastrophic event. i think that's who governor pence's running mate is. >> senator. that's pretty low. >> what was the grade here? >> kaine did not do that well. democrats gave him a b republicans and independents gave him an f. people said pence put him in place. kaine was sensationalist in his comments and felt he over did it. last night cakaine was talking about trump's insults. >> donald trump during his campaign called mexicans rapists and criminals. called women slobs, pigs, dogs, disgusting. i don't like saying that in front of my wife and my mother. if you want to have a society where people are respected and respect laws, you can't have somebody at the top who de means every group he talks about. i cannot believe that governor pence was offending insult driven campaign with donald trump as well. >> democrats seem to hate it. >> democrats gave it an a. independents, though, look at the indep

and was working for ronald reagan. he has seen this twice. congressman, thank you very much for being here, appreciate it. melissa. melissa: new reports coming out saying bully bush will be leaving "the today show" permanently following the leaked 2005 tape that surfaced last week with donald trump. big surprise there, right? nbc reportedly in the process of negotiating bush's exit from the show. we'll keep you updated with any new developments on this one, just in case you're wondering how that part of the story was turning out. david: there is this story. more leaked emails coming out surrounding the clinton campaign sparking major controversies. >> hillary clinton revealing a new tax break for parents. how is she going to pay for it? what about everybody else? grover norquist's take on taxes. that is coming up next. >> hillary clinton is raising your taxes folks. you can look at me. she is raising your taxes really high. and what that is going to do is a disaster for the country. this woman owns this house, with new cabinets from this shop

we did a film with francis, excuse me the surgeon general under ronald reagan. so he -- i went over there to sort of when i was a sophomore in college to try to figure out life and in some ways to see europe and that's when i sort of became left fundamentalism and presbyterian. >> host: do you consider yourself an evangelical today? >> guest: i do not. but a lot of people still would classify me that way. and that's one of my own objections as a historian, as the categories that academics use or not often as malleable or subtle as they might be and i think academics should actually try to be more precise and evangelical becomes a label that just just includes everything under the son and it doesn't lead to that kind of clarity at times even though it's a very complicated matter trying to line groups up and what that might mean for american public life. what was your goal with this book from billy graham to sarah palin? >> well, it was in some ways to put into print perceptions that i had had while working the study institute which is academic nonprofit in will w

. >> that quote from kaine, talking about ronald reagan. he said something interesting about nuclear proliation in the '80s, the problem is, some foul or maniac could trigger a catastrophic event, i think that's who governor pence's running mate is, exactly who reagan warned us about. effective will i calling trump a maniac. >> 100%. >> eugene? >> well, you know, i found this to be a very frustrating 90 minutes, because the debate was miles wide, they covered a lot of territory issue after issue after issue. but as soon as they got in depth and got to an interesting place in the discussion, they moved to another topic, so it was actually only at the very end when they were talking about their faith that i thought i saw some of the real mike pence, some of the real tim kaine. the rest was kind of a battle between two very important rrogates for these two candidates whoere not there. and that's -- i think pence was more polished in a way. he actually did -- certainly during the second half of the debate, really probably the second two thirds,

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

the plan was like ronald reagan's plan in 1986. >> i don't know exactly what he meant by that. i did not hear that as you stated. plan was flawed because it gave him amnesty with a huge her. the donald trump is absolutely clear he will not make that mistake again. the first thing you should do is and the law on immigration and then deal with evil that of been here for a long time. [inaudible conversation] i think the majority do support having that and they don't show that whether you are an nra member that those are reasonable things. >> i would simply go back to the overwhelming numbers with reasonable background checks and look at the data. sometimes acts do matter. >> was there anything that struck you as different, new. i mean, he was definitely more aggressive. >> i think what he was trying to mike pence willing to defend some of the outrages comments donald trump has made. the comments about women. he would not come back and defend them. last question,e when het description, said what is in your heart comes out of your mouth, i think that was as good as any exchange in t

to ronald reagan him right back. >> ronald reagan said something interesting about nuclear proliferation in the 1980s. he said, the problem with nuclear proliferation is that trigger a catastrophic event. and i think that's who governor pence's running mate is. >> oh, come on. >> exactly who president reagan warned us about. >> senator, that even beneath you and hillary clinton. that's pretty low. >> is everybody ready to win big tomorrow? >> reporter: kaine came into this debate with a reputation of mr. nice guy. >> i want to make it very clear he's trying to fuzz up what donald trump has said. >> reporter: tonight he did his level best to throw sharp elbows. >> he's got kind of a personal mt. vladimir putin, kim jong-un. >> please. >> moammar gadhafi, saddam hussein. >> oh, come on. >> the game plan was to be aggressive and he definitely was too aggressive. especially in comparison to pence. who was trying to come across as a very calm, cool, collected candidate. >> reporter: in one exchange accusing trump of being the political equivalent of a super villain. >> donald trump believes t

to ronald reagan him right back. >> ronald reagan said something interesting about nuclear proliferation in the 1980s. he said, the problem with some fool or maniac could trigger a catastrophic event. and i think that's who governor pence's running mate is. >> oh, come on. >> exactly who president reagan warned us about. >> senator, that even beneath you and hillary clinton. that's pretty low. >> is everybody ready to win big tomorrow? >> reporter: kaine came into this debate with a reputation of mr. nice guy. >> i want to make it very clear he's trying to fuzz up what donald trump has said. >> reporter: tonight he did his level best to throw sharp elbows. >> he's got kind of a personal mt. rushmore. vladimir putin, kim jong-un. >> please. >> moammar gadhafi, saddam hussein. >> oh, come on. >> the game plan was to be aggressive and he definitely was too aggressive. especially in comparison to pence. who was trying to come across as a very calm, cool, collected candidate. >> reporter: in one exchange accusing trump of being the political equivalent of a super villain. >> donald trump beli

to ronald reagan him right back. >> ronald reagan said something interesting about nuclear nuclear proliferation is that some fool or maniac could trigger a catastrophic event. and i think that's who governor pence's running mate is. >> oh, come on. >> exactly who president reagan warned us about. >> senator, that even beneath you and hillary clinton. that's pretty low. >> is everybody ready to win big tomorrow? >> reporter: kaine came into this debate with a reputation of mr. nice guy. >> i want to make it very clear he's trying to fuzz up what donald trump has said. >> reporter: tonight he did elbows. >> he's got kind of a personal mt. rushmore. vladimir putin, kim jong-un. >> please. >> moammar gadhafi, saddam hussein. >> oh, come on. >> the game plan was to be aggressive and he definitely was too aggressive. especially in comparison to pence. who was trying to come across as a very calm, cool, collected candidate. >> reporter: in one exchange accusing trump of being the political equivalent of a super villain. >> donald trump believes that the world will be safer if more nations have nuclear

to ronald reagan him right back. >> ronald reagan said something interesting about nuclear proliferation in the 1980s. he said, the problem with some fool or maniac could trigger a catastrophic event. and i think that's who governor pence's running mate is. >> oh, come on. >> exactly who president reagan warned us about. >> senator, that even beneath you and hillary clinton. that's pretty low. >> is everybody ready to win big tomorrow? >> reporter: kaine came into this debate with a reputation of mr. nice guy. >> i want to make it very clear he's trying to fuzz up what donald trump has said. >> reporter: tonight he did his level best to throw sharp elbows. >> mt. rushmore. vladimir putin, kim jong-un. >> please. >> moammar gadhafi, saddam hussein. >> oh, come on. >> the game plan was to be aggressive and he definitely was too aggressive. especially in comparison to pence. who was trying to come across as a very calm, cool, collected candidate. >> reporter: in one exchange accusing trump of being the political equivalent of a super villain. >> donald trump believes that the world will be

to ronald reagan him right back. >> ronald reagan said something interesting about nuclear proliferation in the 1980s. he said, the problem with trigger a catastrophic event. and i think that's who governor pence's running mate is. >> oh, come on. >> exactly who president reagan warned us about. >> senator, that even beneath you and hillary clinton. that's pretty low. >> is everybody ready to win big tomorrow? >> reporter: kaine came into this debate with a reputation of mr. nice guy. >> i want to make it very clear he's trying to fuzz up what donald trump has said. >> reporter: tonight he did his level best to throw sharp elbows. >> he's got kind of a personal vladimir putin, kim jong-un. >> please. >> moammar gadhafi, saddam hussein. >> oh, come on. >> the game plan was to be aggressive and he definitely was too aggressive. especially in comparison to pence. who was trying to come across as a very calm, cool, collected candidate. >> reporter: in one exchange accusing trump of being the political equivalent of a super villain. >> donald trump believes that the world will be safer if mor

everett koop who was surgeon general under ronald reagan. surgeon general. and so, i went over there when i was asap my college to try to figure out life and also as ceo and that is when i started became less fundamentalism and became presbyterian. so that is somewhat. >> host: do you consider yourself an evangelical today? >> guest: i do not. but a lot of people still would classify me that way. that is one of my own objections historian if the categories that academics views are not often as malleable or subtle as they might be and i think academics should actually be more precise and becomes the label that just include everyone under the sun as opposed to liberal protestant and it just doesn't lead to that kind of clarity at times even though it's a very complicated matter trying to line groups that than what that might mean for american public life. >> host: professor hart, what was your goal with this book, "from billy graham to sarah palin: evangelicals and the betrayal of american conservatism"? >> guest: well, he was in some ways personal to put into

to ronald reagan him right back. >> ronald reagan said something interesting about nuclear proliferation in the 1980s. some fool or maniac could trigger a catastrophic event. and i think that's who governor pence's running mate is. >> oh, come on. >> exactly who president reagan warned us about. >> senator, that even beneath you and hillary clinton. that's pretty low. >> is everybody ready to win big tomorrow? >> reporter: kaine came into this debate with a reputation of mr. nice guy. >> i want to make it very clear he's trying to fuzz up what donald trump has said. >> reporter: tonight he did his level best to t elbows. >> he's got kind of a personal mt. rushmore. vladimir putin, kim jong-un. >> please. >> moammar gadhafi, saddam hussein. >> oh, come on. >> the game plan was to be aggressive and he definitely was too aggressive. especially in comparison to pence. who was trying to come across as a very calm, cool, collected candidate. >> reporter: in one exchange accusing trump of being the political equivalent of a super villain. >> donald trump believes that the world will be safer if

to ronald reagan him right back. >> ronald reagan said something interesting about nuclear proliferation in the 1980s. he said, the problem with nuclear proliferation is that trigger a catastrophic event. and i think that's who governor pence's running mate is. >> oh, come on. >> exactly who president reagan warned us about. >> senator, that even beneath you and hillary clinton. that's pretty low. >> is everybody ready to win big tomorrow? >> reporter: kaine came into this debate with a reputation of mr. nice guy. >> i want to make it very clear he's trying to fuzz up what donald trump has said. >> reporter: tonight he did his level best to throw sharp elbows. >> he's got kind of a personal mt. rushmore. >> please. >> moammar gadhafi, saddam hussein. >> oh, come on. >> the game plan was to be aggressive and he definitely was too aggressive. especially in comparison to pence. who was trying to come across as a very calm, cool, collected candidate. >> reporter: in one exchange accusing trump of being the political equivalent of a super villain. >> donald trump believes that the world will

ronald reagan, we think of ronald reagan as a movie actor, we remember him in his second term when he was beginning to show signs of alzheimer's which he eventually died of. we've got to go back, ronald reagan was a leader of the conservative movement in the united states. he had a coherent view of government and politics which he brought with him to the white house and he was a two-term governor of california, the biggest state in the union, the state that's the size of many countries in the world. in other words, when reagan came to office he had behind him a rich background in going, he wasn't always successful but trying to implement his conservative philosophy so he had both a philosophy of government and he had some experience in trying to make that philosophy happen. so that's one way to look at it is you have to look at the whole package. what about this person, one about this candidate makes us think that he or she can deliver on what they are saying? that's one of the pleas i am making in the book. >> what you're seeing in this situation for a community, trump is an extreme

ronald reagan. but let me -- listen -- >> would you like a photo of my father? i'll send you one. >> yes, please send me one. this is what donald trump wrote in his book about your father, the art of the deal, which was co-written about tony schwartz. he says ronald reagan is another example. he's so smooth and so effective a performer that he completely won over the american people. only now nearly seven years later are people beginning to question whether there's anything beneath that smile. he also took a full-page ad out critiquing your father's foreign policy, so why all the praise towards your dad now? >> yeah, you tell me. because he's the last man standing at this point in time and the republicans want to take back -- i'd love to take back the white house but take it back in the right way, that's why i say the down ticket is very important to vote the down ticket if you want to protect yourself against hillary and some of the choices that she'll make. i mean, he is a salesman. think of it th

to ronald reagan him right back. >> ronald reagan said something interesting about nuclear proliferation in the 1980s. he said, the problem with nuclear proliferation is that some fool or maniac could trigger a catastrophic event. and i think that's who governor pence's running mate is. >> oh, come on. >> exactly who president reagan warned us about. >> senator, that even beneath you and hillary clinton. that's pretty low. >> is everybody ready to win big tomorrow? >> reporter: kaine came into this debate with a reputation of mr. nice guy. >> i want to make it very clear he's trying to fuzz up what donald trump has said. >> reporter: tonight he did his level best to throw sharp elbows. >> he's got kind of a personal mt. rushmore. vladimir putin, kim jong-un. >> please. >> moammar gadhafi, saddam hussein. >> oh, come on. >> the game plan was to be aggressive and he definitely was too aggressive. especially in comparison to pence. who was trying to come across as a very calm, cool, collected candidate. >> reporter: in one exchange accusing trump of being the political equivalent of a super

ronald reagan said something interesting about nuclear proliferation back in the 1980s. he said the problem with nuclear proliferation is that some fool or maniac could trigger a catastrophic event. and i think that's who governor pence's running mate this. exactly what president reagan warned us about. pence: that is even beneath you. that is pretty low that i do think we should mourn the weapons that will make us safer? pence: ronald reagan also said nuclear wars should never be thought because it could never be one.. and that united states of america needs to make investmenu in modernizing our nuclear -- [talking over each other] pence: let me go back to this iran thing. he keeps saying that they prevented, hillary clinton started the day with iranians, prevent iran from getting a nuke. they got -- [talking over each other] pence: that's not what israel thinks. kaine: go check it. pence: i know you boycotted prime minister netanyahu's speech. you boycotted the speech. the point is, what this iran, so-called iran deal did was essentially guaranteed -- when i was in con

to ronald reagan him right back. >> ronald reagan said something interesting about nuclear proliferation in the 1980s. he said, the problem with trigger a catastrophic event. and i think that's who governor pence's running mate is. >> oh, come on. >> exactly who president reagan warned us about. >> senator, that even beneath you and hillary clinton. that's pretty low. >> is everybody ready to win big tomorrow? >> reporter: kaine came into this debate with a reputation of mr. nice guy. >> i want to make it very clear he's trying to fuzz up what donald trump has said. >> reporter: tonight he did his level best to throw sharp elbows. >> he's got kind of mt. rushmore. vladimir putin, kim jong-un. >> please. >> moammar gadhafi, saddam hussein. >> oh, come on. >> the game plan was to be aggressive and he definitely was too aggressive. especially in comparison to pence. who was trying to come across as a very calm, cool, collected candidate. >> reporter: in one exchange accusing trump of being the political equivalent of a super villain. >> donald trump believes that the world will be safer if

ronald reagan and i have put our trust in the american people. we've moved some of the power away from washington d.c. and put it back with the people we're pulling together. the neighborhoods are safer because crime is going down. your sons and daughters are doing better in school test scores are going up. there's a new opportunity lying out there in the future. science, technology, and space offering opportunity to to everybody. all the young ones coming up. abroad, there's new leadership and and respect. and ronald reagan his clearly a strong leader of the free world. and i'll be honest with you. it's a joy to serve with a president who does not apologize for the united states of america. mr mondale on the other hand has one idea. flattened tax. the american people. and then he wants to repeal indexing to wipe out the one protection that those at the lower standard the economic scale have protecting them against being rammed into higher and higher tax bracket. we our country too much to go back to that kind of an approach. i'd like to say some

to ronald reagan him right back. >> ronald reagan said something interesting about nuclear proliferation in the 1980s. he said, the problem with some fool or maniac could trigger a catastrophic event. and i think that's who governor pence's running mate is. >> oh, come on. >> exactly who president reagan warned us about. >> senator, that even beneath you and hillary clinton. that's pretty low. >> is everybody ready to win big tomorrow? >> reporter: kaine came into this debate with a reputation of mr. nice guy. >> i want to make it very clear he's trying to fuzz up what donald trump has said. >> reporter: tonight he did his level best to throw sharp mt. rushmore. vladimir putin, kim jong-un. >> please. >> moammar gadhafi, saddam hussein. >> oh, come on. >> the game plan was to be aggressive and he definitely was too aggressive. especially in comparison to pence. who was trying to come across as a very calm, cool, collected candidate. >> reporter: in one exchange accusing trump of being the political equivalent of a super villain. >> donald trump believes that the world will be safer if mo

the tax cuts had been popular with ronald reagan. it caused a rise in our national deficit. after becoming president, bush became painfully aware that he had to do something about the deficit because the rest of the world were concerned about the strength of the american economy with its record level of debt. when the budget talks came along in both houses were controlled by the democratic party who absolutely refused to cut any aspect of spending if you were going to have any money available -- there is only one way to do it. not only was new tax revenue needed to cut the deficit, but the iraqi army had invaded kuwait and so bush saw looming on the horizon expensive military warfare which of course became the gulf war and he did not want to fight a war on borrowed money. president bush [inaudible] agreed to new taxes and it triggered in immediate revolt in the republican party and was a factor in his losing the 1992 election. could president bush have kept that convention -- of course he could. they would have been an impasse with congress. the government would have shut do

the tax cuts had been popular with ronald reagan. it caused a rise in our national deficit. bush becoming president, became painfully aware that he had to do something about the deficit because the rest of the were concerned about the strength of the american economy with its record level of debt. when the budget talks came along in both houses were controlled by the democratic party who absolutely refused to cut any aspect of spending if you were going to have any money available -- there is only one way to do it. not only was new tax revenue needed to cut the deficit, but the iraqi army had invaded kuwait and so bush saw looming on the horizon expensive military warfare which of course became the gulf war and he did not want to fight a war on borrowed money. president bush [inaudible] agreed to new taxes and it revolt inin immediate the republican party and was a factor in his losing the 1992 election. bush have kept that convention -- of course he could. have been an impasse with congress. the government would have shut down and no money would have been available to addre

just moments later, tim kaine quoted reagan to mike pence and these were the exact words that ronald reagan actually spoke. he said he worried, and this is quote. that some day, some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. and so tim kaine was accurately quoting ronald reagan there, and accurately quoting donald trump and mike pence throughout. even though mike pence was the smoother debater up there with style, for the rest of the week you will see mike pence denying on the debate stage that he said something. in fact, these are his words, it is inarguable that vladimir putin has been a stronger leader in his country than barack obama has been in this country. mike pence reeatedly denied saying those words on the debate stage. so it will be shown that mike pence was not telling the truth about himself. and so the final question there about religion is always the one that i think will be the big softball that is easier for them to deal with, producing absolutely nothing interesting by way of governing policy. but that

so if this person is an entertainer, like ronald reagan was an entertainer and when ronald reagan was in hollywood, if you read "killing reagan" in the book, did some things that weren't so great, ronald reagan. so are you telling me he should have been disqualified for -- >> no, i'm not. because donald trumped a you have said is different from anybody who has ever run. he, you want to forget about the howard stern thing. let's forget about it. let's just take all the other stuff. listen, i wasn't in the room when paula jones made the accusation that bill clinton exposed himself and made a lewd suggestion. i wasn't there. i don't know if she's telling the truth. but i believe her. i wasn't in the white house when bill clinton, according to kathleen willie groped her. i wasn't in the white house that day. but i believe her. i sure as hell wasn't in the hotel room in little rock, arkansas, when then attorney general bill clinton allegedly raped juanita broad rick. you know what? i believe her? you know why? because bill clinton has a bad reputation. if i were an editor of a paper and so

the tagline is, re-elect ronald reagan. i said, are you kidding me that? that is blatant, blatant and good. you may think it's corny, but let's face it, you think everything's corny, okay, but if you can get an image like that it really matters. >> ed rollins was reagan's campaign manager. >> two kinds of monitoring you make in a campaign. one is an intellectual argument and one is an emotional argument. >> when beckle ran mondale's campaign, he saw this ad. >> where's the beef? >> wendy's was trying to convince people their hamburgers had more beef. >> where's the beef? >> you were home watching tv with your girlfriend and saw this ad. >> yeah. i saw the ad. my girlfriend said to me, that reminds me of gary hart. what's he all about? all of a sudden, it clicked. >> this is not polling, just a comment from a girlfriend. >> that's right. >> you probably liked her too much. >> no, no. i didn't actually. that triggered in my mind something that made some sense, we could put on the next poll. we put it on a poll, it tested well. >> so mondale used it in a deba

kennedy ronald reagan model. if the model of getting government was trying and two areas of economic policy, it's called monetary policy. both kennedy and reagan identified substantially cutting income tax rates, getting the dollar strong and stable as the specific policies that would let the private sector which is to say the real economy thrive. we need that. we need that. most of us are well aware that reagan was a tax cutter, he's the guy who had to deal with the horrible stagnation, high inflation of the 70s and 80s which came to end in the first years of his presidency. some of us are aware and correct, we've got bill clinton some of that model fostered prosperity in the decade after ronald reagan and a republican congress, clinton cut capital gains tax rates and was a proponent of re-trade which we think is part medicine. however, it is generally not known or not remembered is what the subject of this book is about that president john f. kennedy in the early 50s not only used but largely pioneered the exac

he gets compared to ronald reagan. ronald reagan did something extraordinary. he led an insurgency inside the party and actually captured that party and used it to take over the country. he's still glot -- >> there is a reason for that. donald trump is an outsider. she's challenging the status quo not only the democrats but republicans as well. he's making an anti-politician argument. an anti-washington argument. he's trying to make a broad case for corruption that we've seen on a mass scale from the doj where bill clinton meets with the attorney general on a plane and days later no prosecution by the fbi. and average tea part -- >> -- [inaudible]. >> -- and they lied. they have to spent wide spread corruption. we've seen in government and -- >> -- >> one at a time. >> didn't mean to interrupt. but honest question. seriously. and maybe jeffrey you want to get in here. if all the stuff you are saying sounds great on the face. he can't get his own party. his own running mate on the same page with him for more than three seconds. that is a failure of leadership. >

ronald reagan spent years growing up. religione values and played a deep role in his life and with his mother and that informed him he was later in life. there is something about the values here that help those men and is reflected to will i represents today. >> this weekend, we feature the history of peoria illinois. learn more about other stops on our tour. on are learning more american history television. , i was trying to and up with my documentary there were so many elements i was trying to put into this and it was a lot of information to visual and and it is i have been writing these authorize. instead of writing this in relation, i am filming it. perspectivesetting because of the experts who are knowledgeable about the subject the more credibility your piece will have. it turns into contributing useful information. >> tell us what you are addressing in 2017. you can get $100,000 awarded in cash prizes. produce a documentary on the the $100,000ed and betweenprizes will be -- the prize will go to the student or team

you know, he went from 1 or 2% in the national polls to being equal with ronald reagan in the polls in a period of i think five, six, seven weeks. he stubbed his toe a little bit in the debate right before super tuesday. - he had this speech about how he's new and he's an idea man and i'm old. and so that's when i said, "well, could you answer this question?" - when i hear-- - some specific ways to do that. - when i hear your new ideas, i'm reminded of that ad, "where's the beef?" - yeah? [laughter] - we know it's a big fluffy bun. - talk to the manager. - it is the manager. - where's the beef? - it was a form of political jiu-jitsu, if you think about it. here was this new person, full of ideas, so mondale sort of takes that and flips it. even people that were outside of politics and new to politics, they could kind of laugh. - where's the beef? - mr. mondale! - where's the beef? it worked, he didn't know how to handle it. the debate was mine i think before it was over. it was a good day for old democrats. - that provided a little bit of an opening for walter mondale, and so mondale w

ronald reagan. but let me -- listen -- >> would you like a photo of my father? >> yes, please send me one. this is what donald trump wrote in his book about your father, which was cowritten about tony schwartz. he says ronald reagan is another example. he's so smooth and so effective a performer that he completely won over the american people. only now nearly seven years later are people beginning to question whether there's anything beneath that smile. he also took a full-page ad out critiquing your father's foreign policy, so why all the praise towards your dad now? >> yeah, you tell me. because he's the last man standing at this point in time and the republicans want to take back -- i'd love to take back the white house but take it back in the right way, that's why i say the down ticket is very important to vote the down ticket if you want to protect yourself against hillary and some of the choices that she'll make. i mean, he is a salesman. what does a salesman do? he tells you what you want to

but really the essence of this book 20 years later ronald reagan as well as a sound dollar to revive those economies. it's not something from the 18th century or the 15th century it something from recent times. under republicans and democrats poor economic growth. and that's one of the points they make. you want to draw whatever conclusions but i'm telling you here it was not to write a politicized book. but to just raise history we can learn a lot. and one of the great things about history is when you forget history that john f. kennedy i would argue was the greatest democratic politician and the last 50 or 60 years was in fact the first supply fighter. you have to go all the way back to the 1920s that was a long time ago. kennedy was responding to very poor economic growth during the eisenhower years where there was three recessions and having one by a cat's whisker in 1960 that if he didn't produce growth in fact he talked about 5% growth during the campaign there were three recessions during the eisenhower years. fortunately we have a model to follow as we seek to return our nest