Second Reagan News Today

Is a human being. turning to his wife, saying, thanks, sweetie. turning to his daughter, saying, i did it. he is still a human being, with a lot of challenges before him. why he picked the blue room. this is a room, 30 by 40 feet, much smaller than of the east room and a lot of ceremonial rooms here when we cover the president. we are told that the president wanted to make it much more intimate, just with family and a very small group of friends. very few, if any administration officials, keep t...

Including the five flags. tomorrows inauguration ceremony will be held on the west side of the capitol, as it has been since ronald reagan piewfed it from the east side in 1981. senior national correspondent john roberts is there. >> reporter: hey, good afternoon to you. what a great thing that reagan did. the view from the platform, looking down the mall at the washington monument is nothing short of spectacular. on the platform, we are watching final rehearsals. james taylor left the stage. ke...

One fact was exciting, second reagan and he said, government is not the solution it our problem. you really had the sense he was going to turn federal washington around. the other very memorable thing about 1981, the hostages were being released by iran, jimmy carter was there, he had been up all night, trying to arrange that. as they came off the platform after the speeches, sam donaldson, shouted to carter, are they out yet? he said, no. the ayatollah specifically made it so it wasnt until rea...

Thought that was funny, which probably got me out of trouble. >> this is today because its a subbed. they dont do the public inauguration on sunday. this will be the seventh time that the constitutionally mandated inauguration has fallen on a sunday. the last one was reagan -- >> thats right. 1995. >> and the cold inauguration inside because it was too cold. >> they had to move the swearing-in inside on monday, they moved the entire inaugural parade to a football stadium in landover maryland. th...

Especially with the robber -- pressure on the republicans in an outreach to the hit panic community, looking at 2014 and 2016, saying they have to reach out to their community because its the fastest growing population. but on gun control, it seems like, it might be a lot tougher for that group to hit those -- >> yeah, but red state democrats are important. there are a bunch of red-state democratic carps up for re-election in 2014, like prior in arkansas and landrieu in louisiana. they have to g...

Up on capitol hill. i am not saying he will be able to do it, but the idea of a president using outside pressure to try to get public support to then put pressure on the folks on capitol hill is a time-other thanked tradition. there is an image that reagan and tip oneill bargained -- no. reagan, on most issue its taxes, spending, regulation -- beat tip onemes brains in and he just was more effective at mobilizing public support. if barack obama can do it, more power to him. >> its the oldest kin...

Tomorrow, it will be a bigger, broader speech about coming together and common cause for the country. >> karl? >> i think it will be a moment where the country comes together. but two points. one is we have to be careful about the difference between rhetoric and performance. four years ago, president obama struck a bipartisan note, called for a new coming together, but it didnt happen. one reason it didnt happen was a note that -- that you ran earlier in the piece of footage, where the president...

Ronald reagan would think of this healthcare reform plan? >> he would be completely against it. reagan stuck to his principles no matter what anybody else offered their detractors. he stuck to it and thats the same way obama has been. there are similarities of how they do things and i think obama reflecting reagans optimism, its clear if you look at recent speeches that thats where theyre staking out the ground. i agree on policy. miles apart. martha: i hear you. it will be much discussed. its a...

Support some of the protesters or the government of egypt, which is an ally of israel. its a complicated situation. john bolten will weigh in on this in the next hour. there are new suggestions coming from a number of areas that president obama is sort of channeling a former president now, not lincoln, not kennedy, not f.d.r., which was mentioned several times when he first became president, and not clinton, which was also mentioned, but somebody about as far away from him on the political spect...

His opponents, when they take him on, we look look the doom-and-gloom guys going after reagan. as many people tear at obama, what, they want to lose the future? it sets up the same optimism versus pessimism theme that reagan set up. martha: let me lay on you what you know, which is the way that the other side will look at this. you have got to be kidding me. you are going to put on "time" and try to convince me that their policies are similar? their policies are worlds and worlds apart. these tw...