me and reagan was my tape recorder. now, don't get to to bet out an iphone. you know what an iphone is. had a woolen sock which is this big. it's like a piece of luggage. it's an old reel-to-reel, and i had that between us, a great big microphone and i was asking reagan questions. i asked about his political philosophy -- this is 1965. he quoted a 1947 interview in which he said that weather, quote, it comes from management or labor or government or the right, the left or the center, whatever imposes on the freedom of the individual is tyranny and must be opposed. that was his philosophy, which he had come to over years of study and reflection and reading. well, at the end of that second day, -- we were convinced, ann and i both, he has it. he has really got it. and he said, well, come on up to the house, have some iced tea. give you some cookies. we end up pacific pal saids so their home, very modest home. not a great big sprawling mansion. filled with ge gimmicks bag he had been work with ge and the went with nancy do

what did ronald reagan say at the same time? he was telling the british parliament that marxism was headed for the ash heap of history. he was absolutely right and by the end of that decade the berlin wall was down in the soviet union was no more. that sense of humor in decembe december 1981i wanted to present a copy of my book to him and my publisher said be sure to have a chapter of the attempted assassination so i did. and then said will they do something special on the cover? so in big black letters on a yellow background, complete through the assassination attempt. very tacky. i don't like that but think that would be great for sales. we went back and forth. so i come into the office and there is reagan who almost died in march this was december. a big smile building up his body was strong and made you feel so good and i said mr. president here is a copy of the biography. they are taking pictures and he looks down at the cover complete through the assassination attempt and says i'm sorry i messed up your ending. [laughter]

challenge, nancy reagan was famously known as the personnel director in the reagan white house. the deputy chief of staff who was the maestro of image making for ronald reagan was like a son to reagan. baker was smart enough to know that. he really recruited. when baker, who was considered a pragmatist by his enemies, the guy who would not let reagan be reagan, when he came under attack, he was able to fight back. he had nancy in his corner. i think he was able to be effective as a result. you have to be very savvy to have against those currents where family are involved. host: jason is calling from maryland, what county when? caller: i'm right outside coping to. host: got it. caller: i think you have to be careful and i think both you as host and your guest are careful about what he has written. he has written a book about the recent history of the chief of staff. it should not be used for what they should be or do. they are not mentioned in the constitution. the chief of staff should be the chief of the staff in the white house. not the chief of the cabinet. the fact that the

they did it to reagan, they're trying to do it to me. that's a clear attempt to put these questions to rest. >> health questions are always fair game. there's already questions about the president getting his physical and us seeing the results of the physical. obviously, presidents have had health problems over the years. mental health, beyond ronald reagan, is questioning mental health something that's happened a loss? >> not a lot. less than you would think given -- i think it's amazing presidents aren't crazier when you think about what they have to go through. >> we always said anyone running for president would have to be crazy. that's just those of us -- >> now it seems to be a job requirement. historically the 25th amendment, what we're talking about here, is trying to judge presidential disability and incapacity grew out of a couple of things. woodrow wilson's stroke during the ratification of the league of nations. he had about a year and a half, almost, of convalescence where he was very weak. president roosevelt in the hours o

this is ronald reagan, president of the united states. i'm speaking to you, the peoples of the soviet union, on the occasion of the new year. i know that in the soviet union as it is all around the world this is a season of hope and expectation. a time for family to gather, a time for prayer, a time to think about peace. that's true in america too. at this time of year, americans travel across the country in their cars or by airplane to be

reagan: this is ronald reagan, president of the united states. i'm speaking to you, the peoples of the soviet union, on the occasion of the new year. i know that in the soviet union , as it is all around the world, this is a season of hope and expectation. a time for family to gather , a time for prayer, a time to think about peace. that is true in america, too. at this time of year americans , traveled across the country in their cars, by train, or by airplane to be together with their families. many americans came to the united states from other countries, and at this time of year, they look forward to hosting friends and family from their homelands. most of us celebrate christmas or hanukkah, and as part of the celebrations, we go to church or synagogue, then gather around the family dinner table. after giving thanks for our blessings, we share a traditional holiday meal of goose, turkey, or roast beef and exchange gifts. on new year's eve, we gather again. like you, we raise our glasses in a toast to the year to come. in hopes for ourselves,

he loses and 64 and 70 and reagan in 80. i think because his priorities for his family and friends and then he wins in 1988 becoming president of the united states if you can't win your own state three times but then you become president which i think speaks volumes about taking risk to make sure you have that right foundation to take risk. >> would you have painted in the white house if you do you have the skills? >> no do overs. what i do mission accomplished on uss abraham lincoln? [laughter] that is a good question. i doubt it. it is an all-consuming job. think about the presidency and the problems that you deal with all the time. what is startling is mankind can adjust to their environment within the next day you have to go get the coffee yourself. [laughter] youea wake up realize you no longer have that sense of responsibility and it is pretty startling. so the reason you have that sense of responsibility is all-consuming. do you see the world differently now to the eyes of an artist? >> i do. i was on ellen degeneres

the reagan white house. mike the deputy chief of staff was image making to ronald reagan was like a son to reagan. baker was smart enough to know that. he recruited them as allies. when baker who was considered the pragmatist by his enemies the guy who wouldn't let reagan be reagan. when he came under attack from the hard right, he was able to fight back. he had nancy in his corner. he had beaver in his corner. he was able to be effective as a result. you have to be very savvy politically to navigate those currents. the white house were a family are involved. host: let's hear from jason. jay season is calling from -- jason is calling from maryland. democratic caller. go ahead please. caller: i think that we have to be careful. i think you as a host and your guest mr. whipple. be careful about what mr. whipple written. he's written a book about the recent history of the role of chief of staff. his book, although very good, should not be used as a template what chief of staffs should be or do. as he stated ear

, ronald reagan is the republican icon. he is the emblem of republican and he's called the great communicator. what is his most famous rhetoric, is standing at the brandenburg gate and saying to his soviet counterpart, mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. america at its best stands for both literally and figuratively tearing walls down, not building them. and then you have donald trump. [applause] , if i could take it just a little further, just look at ronald reagan's policy towards the soviet union which was trust but verify. when he was talking to gorbachev during those famous summits during the course of reagan's administration, he would say repeatedly, trust but verify. so much that he got sick of it. in fact he stood on the stage and talked about how sick he was of ronald reagan saying trust but verify with donald trump, his policy toward russia is trust. trust felt. not trust his own intelligence apparatus. that is remarkable. that is absolutely astounding that a republican would say this whole business about russian

president reagan didn't talk. >> dead silence. i describe "in movie nights" the scene where he looked at the beginning of the movie. dead silence, other than laughter. as soon as the movie ended, he timed every one to the minute. >> martha: amazing. keep us posted and how the petition goes. >> i sure will. thanks for having me. >> martha: the quote of the night from ronald reagan next. we took legendary and made it liberating. we took safe and made it daring. we took intelligent, and made it utterly irresistible. we took the most advanced e-class ever and made the most exciting e-class ever. the 2018 e-class coupe and sedan. lease the e300 sedan for $569 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. even if you're trying your best. a daily struggle, along with diet and exercise, once-daily toujeo may help you control your blood sugar. get into a daily groove. ♪let's groove tonight. ♪share the spice of life. ♪baby slice it right. from the makers of lantus, toujeo provides blood sugar-lowering

reagan was totally on top of that. he has been negligent with the state department or just unable to get people staffed. but there has been this pence helped driven, fueled, evident to get things done elsewhere. epa is a classic example of that we have been too distracted by tweets to pay attention to that. >> i think that's an interesting parallel because the difference between reagan's administration and the trump's administration is reagan set the direction of the republican party. trump accepted it. >> or has he. >> it was not bush setting the agenda for the reagan agenda. it was a reaganite agenda. but the trump administration has been a pretrump agenda as well. >> in 2018 we are going to be looking certainly international but i think domestically at this question of does donald trump believe trumpism? i don't think we know the answer to that. >> let's unpack mark meadows, what did you learn about daca? he wants big. it sounded like to me they want a big -- and come preens comprehensive is defined by a lot of bord

ronald reagan -- i brought ronald reagan up earlier. ronald reagan was not seen as somebody that had progressive views on race. in fact, if i -- if my memory serves me well, he was even opposed to the martin luther king holiday. i'm sure i'm going to get 1,000 e-mails from conservative in two seconds telling me that's not true, but i remember ronald reagan saying i think -- i think the kindest way i can say this about a guy that i liked in many aspects is if i don't -- if i remember it correctly, he had some pretty back ward thinking views about martin luther king and at times race and at times ending a apartheid in south africa, and yet america moved forward during reagan's era and reagan never as mike barnacle just said, presidents didn't usually pick at that scab of race the way donald trump does. i just wonder, the fact that he's talking this way openly about race in such an insensitive way, does that not allow us as a nation to have these conversations out in the open, to confront these challenges head on and to drive a stake throu

, ronald reagan, who inspired in me notjust a sense of service, but ronald reagan, who inspired in me not just a sense of service, but a sense of responsibility to my community, and what we can do to help the least. is it time for more republicans, who are minded like you and frankly disgusted by what they are seeing from donald trump in the white house to actually say they want no part of electoral politics right now? i'm thinking of senatorjeff flake for example who is outspoken in his criticism of donald trump, said recently there are times when we must risk all careers in favour of our principles and now is such a time, and he, realising because of his criticising, he was not going to get the nomination i think that's unfortunate and i've said so, i've told him that. even though, look, if what you're saying, hiroa great though, look, if what you're saying, hiro a great book on this, and if you really believe these founding principles hold true, you stay in the fight. what good is it to walk away and to lessen the authority of your voice, even though you may lose your voice, even t

"reagan's gaffe." it only gets worse from there. the media couldn't stand the fact that ronald reagan ended up, by being strong, defeating the soviet union and he didn't fire single shot. that started when ronald reagan called the communist regime what it really was, an evil empire, take a look. >> they preached the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man and predict his eventual domination of all peoples on the earth. they are the focus of evil in the modern world. so when your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, i urge you to be aware that a temptation of pride, the temptation of blithely declaring ourselves above it all, label both sides equally at fault. to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race of giant misunderstanding, and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wron wrong, evil. >> sean: he didn't give them billions of dollars. president reagan was confronting evil in his time but then, it was way too muc

well, look, trump isn't reagan. no one ever will be. reagan was a man for his own time. he was the former two term governor of california who wrote and thought a lot about conservatism. but, like reagan, trump is extremely sharp and he has the pulse of the people. and i know because i have seen it. he has uncanny ability to connect with their hopes and their desires. and like reagan, he reminds americans that what makes us special is our people. it's our freedom. it's not our government. and as for the so-called smart educated people who are now criticizing trump, i have a few questions. was it smart to enact policies that ended up enriching the repressive regime in china at the expense of american workers, american companies and american security? and was it smart to leave our borders open like swiss cheese allowing illegals to stream into the united states, taking american jobs, sad ling taxpayers with the cost of educating them, housing them, providing them with healthcare? was it smart to get into some wars that ended up draining our country of trillions of dollars,

this is ronald reagan, president of the united states. i'm speaking to you, the peoples of the soviet union, on the occasion of the new year. i know that in the soviet union as it is all around the world this is a season of hope and expectation. a time for family to gather, a time for prayer, a time to think about peace. that's true in america too. at this time of year, americans travel across the country in their cars or by airplane to be together with their families. many americans of course came to the united states from other countries. and at this time of year, they look forward to hosting friends and family from their homelands. most of us celebrate christmas or hanukkah and as part of those celebrations, we go to church or synagogue, then gather around the family dinner table. after giving thanks for our blessings, we share a traditional holiday meal of goose, turkey, or roast beef and exchange gifts. on new year's eve, we gather again. and like you, we raise our glasses in a toast to the year to come. for the hopes for ourselves,

. >> laura: but you weren't supporting reagan, you couldn't stand reagan. >> i wasn't in support of reagan. >> laura: he took on the russians, you're like a modern day reagan, reagan took on the russian when is it was mutually assured destruction. now we're beyond mutually assured destruction. russia's economy is smaller than france. >> it is. here's what is smart about putin. we basically beat them during the cold war. >> laura: we wants mother russia back, i know, i know. >> they spent themselves into oblivion trying to -- >> laura: because of reagan. >> because of a lot of things, a lot of different presidents helped to do that. but putin figured out for a half a billion dollars, very inexpensive thing, i can weaponize cyber war. what people have to understand, the capacity that cyber war, not just invading the election, there's blowing up stuff. >> laura: look at putin during obama, twient get to the fun snuff a moment. >> this isn't the fun stuff? >> laura: for me, talking the b. the other stuff is fun, you talking about politics. but putin did pretty well in the obama years. went int

host: let's talk about the 4 presidents you worked with, beginning with ronald reagan. in a sentence or so, describe your interactions with them and what they were like as a boss, beginning with president reagan. elaine: president reagan, i was a white house fellow, i was so young at the time that if i caught a glimpse of the president that would have made my day. so i really did not have much interaction, but i will say that i think president ronald reagan's presidency was successful for many reasons. two i will cite that pertain to me. one is i was actually independent. i was not very much involved in politics at all. but president reagan's inaugural message, and his goals of smaller government, stable monetary policy, less regulations, really resounded with me. that kind of, kind of like touched a chord that made me realize i am actually conservative. so president ronald reagan was actually able to reach out to parts of the population that did not view themselves as republicans, who nevertheless connected with his message. secondly, because he had such simple but cle

take a look at the scene at reagan national airport on this cold morning. travelers are doing what they can amid the cancellations. you can see big groups of people at the next half hour with a full breakdown on the local travel impact. stay with us for that. >>> several flights were diverted to dulles international on thursday due to this major snowstorm hitting the east coast. passengers were held on the tarmac for several hours. there was a flight from buenos aires to new york. a lot of passengers believe the flight crew could have made better decisions. >> the pilot wasn't making the proper decisions. the flight was delayed three hours. we were in the air for 11 and a half hours. then he's going to fly the plane to jfk. people were scared. they said everybody would stand up if the plane took off. >> how things are handled is up to the individual airline. justin finch will be live for us later in the hour. >>> today, amtrak is operating on a modified schedule between the district and boston. there will be fewer express and northeast regional norfolk are

the temperature is 26 degrees at reagan national. are increasing out of the north-north west at 26 miles an hour, and the feels-like temperature's are now at 10 degrees in downtown d.c. temperatures are holding in the 20's in leesburg, frederick. the winter weather advisory is about to cancel out. gusts begin to increase, 35 miles an hour. anyway you look at it, it is cold, and it is only going to get colder as we move through the next several hours. feels-like temperature's in the single-digit, around 10 or 11 degrees. stormwatch 7 satellite and radar, most of what you see around the immediate metro area not even reaching the ground. some of the blizzard warning in effect until 6:00. to get inton clear, and brighter skies are on the way later this afternoon. at around 11:30 a.m., they updated this to make the visit warning a little bit longer for ewey, city, rehobeth, d bethany, dover. you are looking at that blizzard warning until 6:00. we have the winter storm warning known effect until 1:00. it does include mail --'s extreme sout

reagan. >> mann: reagan had this idea to give this nationally televised speech. the goldwater people didn't want to pay for it. they didn't want to do it. so reagan went out and raised the money and aired the speech himself. >> ronald reagan: and this idea that government is beholden to the people -- that it has no other source of power, except the sovereign people -- is still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. this is the issue of this election -- whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the american revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. >> mann: the speech was called "a time for choosing," which may be ronald reagan's best speech ever, and that's saying a lot for ronald reagan, 'cause he gave a lot of great speeches. but this speech was a masterpiece. and it probably made the best case for barry goldwater that anybody, including barry goldwater, had made for himself. >

forget the ronald reagan thing. it isn't even close. >> so the first line in the piece with your byline and maggie haberman's line is just that. this is a president whose erratic behavior, it's all -- and again, not one of us, except maybe donny, can diagnose this man. i don't know him. but it's the public facing thing. we are examining what faces the public. and what faces the public are tweets about nuclear war, or the title of the book came from a tweet about fire and fury, raining down on north korea. well, there's no fire and fehry in fury in north korea without grim casualties for the rest of the peninsula. this has not only been legitimized by the president's outward facing behaviors but the deafening silence of the people closest to him. >> you mentioned, is this difficult for reporters to even raise this question? and when we started off covering this president about a year ago, i thought this issue might come up at some point because we saw on the campaign trail, even republican opponents used words like c

ronald reagan. wait until you hear what reagan's son has to say about that. he's going to join me next. >>> president trump hosting a bipartisan group of lawmakers at the white house today for negotiations on immigration. the session, nearly an hour long, was televised. a source telling cnn that was done on purpose to counter questions about the president's fitness for office. i want to talk about the trump presidency now, with ron reagan jr., the son of the former president, ronald reagan. he joins me via skype. thanks so much for joining us. we appreciate it. you know, after the explosive description of president trump's white house from michael wolff and the president pouring gas on the fire, we've been having a national discussion, ron, of mental fitness for office. what's your impression of the president's fitness for office? >> i have been saying since he was nominated, perhaps even before, that this is a man who is unfit for office. this is not a psychological diagnosis. i'm not particularly

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at reagan national, canceled flights across the north mean a smaller than normal business day. >> i'm heading back to indianapolis and i hope i make >> reporter: she took her chances, showing up after a canceled flight to indiana university. >> originally, i was supposed to leave at 10:00 tonight. i found out it was canceled and they rebooked us for 7:00 p.m. tomorrow night. i thought i would have to book a hotel and what will i do. i came here to see if they could do anything earlier. >> reporter: it worked. she pushes out later this evening and for many others, it was slow at reagan national with canceled flights in providence and new york keeping many to ride out the storm at home. albright will camp out at the airport for a bit. as long as she makes it home, she's all smiles. >> it will be a challenge. i will find stuff to do. >> reporter: wusa9 at reagan national. >> at laguardia and jfk, they will hopefully open around midnight tonight. >> city, maryland. many of you saw melissa nord get blowed around this morning. we sent bruce leshan to investigate and even though he left at 1

that water main break at reagan national airport. if you're flying out of reagan, you may want to allow extra time. we got more information on that. blocking the main entrance ramp at southbound gw parkway. but there is a second ramp entering the airport. that's being used as a detour. you could also get route 1 in crystal city. we've got justin finch. that's his live camera there. he's on his way to that water main break to bring you a going on there. we'll see t back to you. >>> because of this weather, we've been talking about school delays. calvert county schools in maryland, two hours late as well. here's what we're talking about when hee say take your time on the roads. what ice may be left to blame for a crash that happened in bethesda. a woman's suv skidded off the road and smashed into this apartment building on clarendon road. you can see damage both inside and outside of the apartment. all three families living in the building were displaced because of the damage. take a lock at the car. the driver was trapped in the suv a

. >> laura: going back to reagan reagan, i work for president reagan right out of college. nobody liked reagan. for the most part it was thatcher, john paul ii, and pretty much reagan. we had some allies, but everyone hated reagan. >> approval rattles for strong american president seem to be negative. at the heart of marshall plan to rebuild the french economy after world war ii, america had negative approval ratings. any american president who cares about polls like these is the wrong choice for the job. >> laura: when you look back on your time in government and you think about what you are seeing now, we talked earlier in the show and our audience really cares about the integrity of this mueller investigation. he's had a long and very storied career in law enforcement, respected civil servant, but when you have reams and reams of text messages that just go missing between two key figures in this investigation, and now we have mentions of secret societies and insurance policies and metals that democrats don't want released. imagine if this were happening during the bush a

now, let's start with president ronald reagan. this is where our history lesson begins tonight back in 1984. you might remember it was a microphone check. he was doing a weekly radio address oh, he is going to destroy russia with newarks. he was joking, keep in mind this was never in the actual real speech. listen to this. >> my fellow americans, i'm pleased to tell you today that i have signed legislation that will outlaw russia forever. we begin bombing in five minutes. [laughter] >> sean: of course the audio was released. the media tried to make it into a huge massive international crisis even though it was a joke. take a look, back then, how nbc news reacted. >> it was the joke heard around the world, the one by president reagan about bombing the soviet union and it resulted in a soviet red alert and it became a campaign issue in this country. >> by august 14th the story became world news, a major item on moscow television where the joke was not treated as a laughing matter. sean sean look at this headline from the "new york t

that is much less than it was in reagan from january 1st, '83, to june 30th, '84. that was 12% growth or annual rate of 8% then. david: we'll save the tape because you claim that the last quarter of 2017 was slower than expected because people were deferring some of their, some of their investment until 2018 when the tax cuts kicked in. it won't be long. that means that the first quarter of 2018, according to you will be spectacular? >> i think it will be much better yes, than the fourth quarter of last year, yes. david: you wanted to say something about congresswoman black? >> she is most wonderful person. she will be our next governor. she is absolutely wonderful, david, thank you for letting me say that. i really think she is amazing. she will make a great governor in this wonderful state, which should be example for the whole country. david: we would like to invite her competitor who happens to be would come on as well. >> i was thinking of running but i'm not going to run. david: art laffer, we need you in your field, not in the field of politics. we need you

what ed rollins of ronald reagan's fame, a big strategist. he said that regan was famous for having a sense of humor. would the president be wise to do that? he is the one in the driver's seat in this economy and the markets, whether you want to credit him or not. just to accentuate the positive and don't punch down on the negative. >> i understand what people say about his tweeting. at the same time, he needs to continue to tweet. one of the reasons why is this: if he was putting out only his economic numbers, there's a lot of young people specifically millennials that won't care or pay attention to that. >> neil: that's your generation. they have an attention problem. >> a lot of people, what brings him to their page is what he is tweeting. >> it's hurt him. >> and then they see the numbers he tweets about. >> it's hurting him. >> i don't think it's hurting him. if you want to say he's insane, that's the type of insane i want to see in the white house. it's working. >> it's not working. here's the thing -- >> it is working. >> why is his ap

. >> from the reagan family, micah and cameron. [applause] the status of women in just a few more, a former congressman and his wife. [applause] of the elected officials from the county of ventura. simi valley. [applause] president bush's secretary of the treasury. [applause] and lastly, retired u.s. army officer, gary and his wife. [applause] i'd be remiss if i did not mention that jerry became paralyzed from the waist down when the helicopter crashed while conducting operations in iraq in 2008. thanks to the generosity of the -- he can now walk through the existence of an excess skeleton. [applause] is like to know what an exoskeleton is, gary will be at the reagan library tomorrow night for an event to share his story. we have a all to come back tomorrow at the same time for will be an inspirational event. thank you for coming. [applause] now, to begin her conversation with our special guest's another of our foundations trustees. fred has served, as the reagan foundation chairman for 22 years. prior to his chairmanship he served

we have been producing it since 1981, first with ronald reagan. ronald reagan passed it out to his cabinet and it was a blueprint for leadership in this country. in his first year, donald trump has done 64% of our mandate for leadership. we were quite even couraged. for anyone who doubts whether we have a conservative president, we in fact do. >> that number is astonishing. when i first saw it, my first reaction was amazement. the state of the union coming up tomorrow. 64%. now the next part comes, what have you done for me lately. and what do you believe is truly in prospect for this administration. >> with all that the president has done, there is still work to be done. we'll be listening tomorrow for the state of the union and of course we'll be looking to see what's going to happen, how he's going to push forward his agenda on immigration. we are looking forward to welfare reform, we are looking forward to seeing what the plan is going to be on infrastructure. those are all issues we'll have a watchful ear and eye for tomorrow night. but given

and didn't people also underestimate ronald reagan? and ronald reagan won two elections in a landslide. this is about policy. which policies are going to get the candidates elected; right? >> yeah. clark clifford referred to reagan -- can you believe this? as the dunts. i mean, that was the description of reagan. and then of course clark e's career crashed on that. what you want to now do is look at the fiscal fitness of america, which is improving by day. we added $7 trillion to the wealth of america and the stock market, we're going to have our budgets coming back towards balance, revenues are going to start increasing. there's one thing that causes revenue growth, elizabeth, and that's economic growth. i mean, tax revenues grow with the economy. and that's what we need to do. just like tennessee does it. liz: by the way, i want to correct myself. the president will be attending a college football game tonight. please forgive me, dear viewer viewers. liberal economists, by the way, he's a lawyer, not an economist. it's robert. and bi

>> no, that is mythology about the reagan era. david: wait a minute. you're dumping on your own era? >> yes, i am, because i want the truth to be known, that is there was huge recession. there was six quarters of bounceback. david: david, david, please. >> david i have to get the facts out david. >> the fact is that the tax cuts did not kick in until after the recession. once the tax cuts kicked in in 1983, the recession was pretty much over. in 1983 we grew by 4%. that was a hell of a juxtaposition from a recession. >> well i was there, i think i know more about it than you do. david: just quoting the facts from the treasury department, david. you know that. >> the facts during eight years of the reagan administration, real gdp grew at 3 1/2%. david: but the tax cuts did not cut in until 1983. >> it doesn't matter. david: of course it does. look look at growth stats. four peers in 1983. 7% in 1984. don't you think you have part of that bump. >> no. that was after deep recession. we're 10 years after the last recession. that is apples and oranges. the

r07b8d reagan had the same problem and handled it well. so will i. what does that mean, david gregg stphr ry? >> whether you are ronald reagan, donald trump, you're also going to face it when you behave as erratically as he's behaved. to john's point, and to chris's point, when he reacts in a way that only fuels these questions about him, how about the mueller investigation. the fact that it is accelerating around obstruction is how the president has reacted to the investigation, firing jim comey and the like. how thin skinned he is, his obsessiveness means he's his own worst enemy in office. >> actually, that tweet storm we sometimes ignore. it began with him calling the russian investigation a discredited hoax which it fundamentally is not. let's not forget that. >> the russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the american public. the democrats and their lap dogs and fake news, media, mainstream media are taking out the old ronald reagan playbook and screaming mental in stability and intelligence. the ide

so that sound you hear is ronald reagan rolling in his grave. ..

kids, i know mike reagan well -- >> i know michael reagan. >> every one of the kids has difficulty with the dad. >> yeah. >> you know, these stories we look back at different presidents -- >> that's okay. a lot of people have difficulties with their dad, but i've never heard michael wolff -- but i did not read in the book that -- >> he's been saying this. he's been saying this. and it's not good. and he keeps lying about the president's -- you can say you disagree with the policy or you disagree you think his temple temperament should be different, i think that's all fine criticism, but to say he's mentally unfit and 100% of the people believe that when it's clearly not true, don't you think that that's going like a bridge too far? >> please quickly because we're running out of time here. you don't think it's okay to question the mental and physical health for the free world? >> certainly fair, but when you're insinuating like dr. wolff is that he's psychologically unfit that you don't have a medical credential, that's overboard. >> i get your point. how has the president acted privatel

we are at 24 degrees at reagan national. it is definitely blowing and cold, bitter cold, 9 degrees the wind chill temperature. temperatures stay flat today, right in the mid to upper 20's. wind-chill advisory for tomorrow morning covers the area. you can check how cold it will be. the next storm, by the way, bringing us rain, and it could get icy on tuesday morning. late tonight as we see the conditions out there really starting to freeze hard once the sunsets. with more on that, let's go to julie wright. julie: right now, veronica, you will find slowdowns around the capital beltway you continue to work your way around, even though around the beltway, it is in better shape than some of at least. a crash northbound real one near croom road, that is reporting along the right side of the highway. also used on 50 at route boulevard. that is tying up -- rowe boulevard. that is tying up the left side of the highway. again, those ramps are definitely slick. we are encouraging folks to slow down. road,rthbound at5 rive they are push

he should get the playbook of ronald reagan out. ronald reagan blamed jimmy carter for three years for the mess he inherited. and didn't dare start bragging until 1984 when the economy was back on a solid footing. trump is walking into a miserable trap that he is going to pay for dearly and the republicans. neil: all right. you know, you so upset people with that, that briefly our lights all when out, so, if you could just try to keep it on right side of somewhat cheery. you mentioned ronald reagan. they have been loathe to pounce on markets at any given time. reagan was particularly concerned about that this president has been saying, look what i got. media won't run with it. the media will run with it. you say that can come back to bite your heiny? >> of course. this is the craziest financial bubble we have ever had. this is suckers rally like never before. the stork market is trading, was, at a couple days ago, 26 times s&p 500 earnings. worse, 150 times the russell 2000. these are not sustainable. this is crazy. the economy isn'

i said right then and there, reagan is an intellectual. . . . . it's the subject of tonights for him and also the title of the latest book on the subject. the director and we are pleased to have rachel as our speaker tonight on the last stop of the tour that begs the question of

here between me and reagan was my tape recorder. you all know what an iphone is, i had the roland salk which is this big like a piece of luggage. there is a great big microphone which i was asking reagan questions. i asked about his political philosophy and this was 1965. he quoted in 1947 interview in which he said it comes from management or labor, or government or the right, left, or center, whatever imposes on the freedom of the individual is tyranny. it must be opposed. you come to that over years of study and reflection and reading. at the end of the second day we are convinced, he's got it when he said come up to the house and have some ice tea. so we went up everyone up not a great big sprawling mansion. here been working with ge for all those years and he went into the kitchen to do the ice tea and cookies. he put us in the library ten which was very small. i looked over and here are the shelves and shelves of books. what did i do? got up and began looking at them. history, politics, economics, volume after volume conservat

fox5's bob barnard and photojournalist jake, take to us reagan national airport for the big celebration. >> i am so lucky that i have a job like this. >> reporter: betty nash was treated like celebrity last month honored with a party at reagan national airport for her 60 years of service as a washington based flight attendant. >> oh, this, i love this. >> ♪ >> the customers give me energy. but just the fact that i can can't believe that i'm here, you know. >> reporter: betty still work the american airlines washington to boston shuttle called a stewardess back then, betty started her career with eastern airlines on november 4th, 1957 dwight eisenhower was president then. >> you know, just the fact that they hired me. eddie rick ken backer hired me. that i got the job. that's the most important thing. >> we sold sandwiches for 50 cents and milk for 15 cents. in the old days we saw a lot of ming coats but, you know, now a days we see a lot of flip-flops. so depending on where you go. >> reporter: flu bankruptcies and mergers, betty ended up working for american airlines. it it's ceo dou

sounds like you were surprised he invoked reagan given reagan's ailing health in the '90s. >> i am surprised. why do that when you're opening yourself up to that comparison? >> and eventually in the '90s, reagan was diagnosed with alzheimer's after he finished his term as president. so brian karim, this was also a topic at the white house briefing room. let's look at a couple of times that sarah sanders was asked about the president's mental health. >> should american's be concerned about the president's mental fitness, that he appears to be speaking so lightly about threats regarding a nuclear button? >> i think the president and the people of this country should be concerned about the mental fitness of the leader of north korea. >> what's the president's reaction to the growing number of suggestions, both in this book and the media that he's mentally unfit to serve as president? >> it's disgraceful and laughable. >> brian, you asked a follow-up question about whether it will include a neurological exam or a look at his mental acuity. was it uncomfortable for you to say that to the white ho