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People trust him, but he cant let his integrity get dented. dont talk abt. if youre dwoik to close guantanamo, close it. if you want the keystone pipeline to happen, say its going to happen. there have been too many trial ones. >> good point. what i sense is a lot of action, talk, you know this covering him all the time. hes good at words and go back to reagan and the patco strike. all the history of iran contra. reagan didnt put that behind him until his wife got him to admit it, he did trade a...

Barack obama and i think he has an opportunity to just, im sure his poll numbers are going to stay high. people trust him, but he cant let his integrity get dented. dont talk abt. if youre dwoik to close guantanamo, close it. if you want the keystone pipeline to happen, say its going to happen. there have been too many trial ones. >> good point. what i sense is a lot of action, talk, you know this covering him all the time. hes good at words and go back to reagan and the patco strike. all the hi...

Right. and that goes to one of the deep problems that weve faced for the last 30 years. and i do think that the patco strike has something to do with this. as ford and others were negotiating with unions this year, there really wasnt much threat that there would be a strike. in fact, strikes have fallen off the table in terms of a tool for american workers. even in situations where employers are not being very fair. workers are much less likely today to strike than they were in the years before ...

>> well, no, its not enough. but it is a good start. this kind of problem has been going on for so many years. when i was inspector general, we had instances of air traffic controllers sleeping on the job. and some were quite organized about it. one would stay in the tower, and the others would go out in the parking lot and sleep. they had all sorts of schemes and plans. and the faa would sweep it under the rug. this time it appears the first amendment worked. with the public attention on the pr...

Very important point. faa pulled them out a long time ago because some controllers were abusing it. but the people ive had in the cockpit have always come away with their eyes very much open, especially when we went into a busy city and they saw how hard we worked, depending on the instructions the controllers gave us. theyre sitting in a chair and they dont move and were in a very dynamic position. >> something else and eliot was talking about this earlier. we heard it from a guest previously i...

And deep love of his country. but i think there were mistakes made. policy ideas he had, reaganomics and others that hurt the very people he sought to most help. >> i think he did some really important things historically. one was dealing with the soviet union. very important, the breaking of the patco strike. they backed him in the election in 80. he broke those guys when they wild catted. i got that through sources. dwayne andrews told tip oneill, over in the soviet union, they said this guy i...

Portrait of ronald reagan where this is a man of deep intentions and deep love of his country. but i think there were mistakes made. policy ideas he had, reaganomics and others that hurt the very people he sought to most help. >> i think he did some really important things historically. one was dealing with the soviet union. very important, the breaking of the patco strike. they backed him in the election in 80. he broke those guys when they wild catted. i got that through sources. dwayne andrew...

Main street america. he came from the heartland. he came from a small town. at the end of the day that readers digest america is the very america his policies did the most to hurt. i think he didnt mean to do that. i agree definitely with the portrait of ronald reagan where this is a man of deep care and deep intentions and deep love of his country. i think that there were mistakes made and policy ideas he had that hurt the people he sought to most help. >> i think he did some really important t...

Aging as well. you know, theres a mandatory retirement at age 56. >> sure. >> of all traffic controllers. >> and back in 1981, i remember when -- after the patco strike and ronald reagan installed new guys and gals in those towers and now a lot of those guys are retiring but peter, youre down to washington right now and according to this report, 49 of the 177 air traffic controllers, 49 have not yet been certified which sounds to us like there are guys up there who are not completely ready for t...