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Mark upgrove and lauren leader. good morning. doris, i want to start with you on this as you watched president johnson deliver that speech august 6, 1965, you consider the pressure he was under from a lot of people not to support and push through the vote rights act, he was going to lose some of his base, the southern vote and he said, what the hell is the presidency for. >> how i remember that day, actually. i was 22 years old. if i could have ever imagined after bloody sunday when i was listen...

Saw to the passage of the voting rights act. >> mark, let me stay with you for a second. were see right now an assault on voting rights across the country in republican state legislatures restricting access to the ballot and theres been pressure on joe biden to defend voting rights in a similar position as lbj. biden like johnson goes to the senate, knowing how the body works. and a lot of people want biden to come out against the filibuster. how do you think president johnson would have handled...

Focused on the awe-inspiring duty and accomplishment of the american soldiers who stormed these beaches. what he didnt do that other american presidents han done is transfer that in a call to american internationalism, american leadership on the world stage. all of the institutions that were built out of the ashes of world war ii have their roolts here. other presidents have made it a point to talk about the importance of nato, the importance of working together milita militarily so they doesnt ...

Of all of the people that those young men might have been. >> mark, when you think about this day, when you look back on the 75th commemoration at the 80th or the 85th, youll not see as many veterans of this war as you did today. >> no. youre right, hallie. they are fast fading from this earth. and, again, as i mentioned earlier, their stories are worth preserving because of the self-sacrifice and what they represented not only for our nation but for the world. but when i think about d-day, i al...

Of our history. weve been quite fortunate. >> that is for sure. mark upgrove and karen, thank you for your time and for being on the show today. thank you. we had a couple of minutes last night to come here to this cemetery. we happen to be here at sunset and the place was almost empty. it is my first time here, like ann. and driving down the entryway i felt butterflies i didnt expect and even knowing when i do about this place, didnt expect what happened when you step to the edge of the grass...

Last republicans" by mark upgrove, and president bush did say that on the record, that he thought trump was a blowhard. look, donald trump is 180 from who george h.w. bush is. but inviting him to the funeral is not a surprise. because this is about respect for the office. >> absolutely. >> and bernie, you heard colin powell talk about george h.w. bush as a president, as an international leader, as somebody who believed entreaties, believed in international order. and he didnt say the word trump,...

Basically big government republicanism as did his son george w. bush. so, they are both aberrations from the degree of the republican party, the parties has always traditionally been at least in the modern area for less government, more freedom, you know, federalism, all those issues that animate republican centered on the personal freedom dignity and right. so it was kind of a natural exorcism that had to happen because they both ended up perceived as failed presidencies. >> laura: and, mark, g...

Individual. he was very centered on rights and dignity and privacy of the american individual. >> laura: hey, mark, do you think ronald reagan was tweet if he was alive during twitter, do you think he would tweet. >> yes, he would. >> no, i dont. >> i disagree. >> may i jump in here. >> i will make my point. >> go ahead, mark. >> reagan was about civility. when he went to washington. he campaigned against a big government. government actually got bigger during the reagan administration. there we...

Basically big government republicanism as did his son george w. bush. so, they are both aberrations from the degree of the republican party, the parties has always traditionally been at least in the modern area for less government, more freedom, you know, federalism, all those issues that animate republican centered on the personal freedom dignity and right. so it was kind of a natural exorcism that had to happen because they both ended up perceived as failed presidencies. >> laura: and, mark, g...

The institutions to the individual. he was very centered on rights and dignity and privacy of the american individual. >> laura: hey, mark, do you think ronald reagan was tweet if he was alive during twitter, do you think he would tweet. >> yes, he would. >> no, i dont. >> i disagree. >> may i jump in here. >> i will make my point. >> go ahead, mark. >> reagan was about civility. when he went to washington. he campaigned against a big government. government actually got bigger during the reagan ...