It at a successful 100 day. Between 13 Congressional Review Acts, pieces of statutes new york laws north regular layings, between then syria reaction, the afghanistan moab, the response to north korea, the budget, andd especially because of justice gorsuch, he want the first 100 days. Like to win more but he won the first 100 day jazz. Host what is important or significant thats too low but he has broken out of the starvation years of theme department of defense so Mick Mulvaney is not nope for being a defense spending. He is a budget hawk and says the deficit is a bigger National Security problem than the prc or russia. Was a little afraid he would undercut defense. Still not what needed to be. No enough money for a 350 ship navy but going the right direction. By the time it gets through the house and senate and after thehe shutdown, which is coming,. Host you think we center. Guest Chuck Schumer wants a shut down, going to cause a shutdown, because his base demands a shutdown, and his hard core 10 wants to be seen to be fighting so he senator schumer is a very smart guy and knows that it was not smart to filibuster neil gorsuch because they reduced the ability to nominate and confirm the Supreme Court to 51 votes as opposed to having the filibuster availablea when in the next seat comes open so senator schumer did not have a good reason to do that. Forced by his base to do it. Forced by the base to shut the government. T the government is all shut when the republicans have been in the white house. E this time a republican president gets to pick what stays open and what is shut down. We wont shut down mt. Rushmr. Or the st. Louis arch or the national mall. Well shut down npr, shut down things that the left loves and wait until the npr people get word theyre not get anything money for a while. Going to beer tough. Host where do you agreed the healthcare debate that was held. Guest a fiasco for republicans. Part of that is pre the president s fault or pail ryan odd called but i blame never Freedom Caucus or the area 51 caucus who previouses in legislative flying saucerserserd pretend that the indiana has more republicans thanked dot. They pretend that Susan Collins and rob portman with vote to cut made okayed. Theyre not. They pretend the role back of the preexisting conditions, be pushed away. They have to realize incrementalism works. Take 80 of a good deal. Host when you look the fourth way what are the get over issues for the republican snooze republicans . R get over immigration. By not dedeporting the dacaveryg kids he telegraphed that opposite the border wall guess up and we have additional security on the border theres a deal to be had with democrats on immigration reform. He has got to have an infrastructure package that fourth way talked about how to do that the right way and can get ten times us a much done with a tenth of the money that president obama got and has done the most effective thing in repudiating president obamas Foreign Policy. He has been very effective doin. It the right way. Host what other would guest a 350 shape hava, giant much larger marine corps and you do offering do everything you can to telegraph the american response will be one of great strength and not one of weakness. So when syria violate his unchemical Weapons Convention you drop 59 cruise missiles on a mass murderer. You dont draw a red line and erase it. Host Michael Eric Dyson was on to talk about his and one thing me writes is that donald trump is the most dangerousmo racist demagogue we have ever had in office. Guest that would overlook the fact that lot of people prior to the civil war weree slave holders and i tech mica michael is a friend and is a very smart guy and a very good provocateur but you have to erase all precivil war history. So i believe permanently from dealing with trump, the president s 15 times on their radio, four times on debate, i dont think hes a racist or homophobe. E. Hes a developer, and i represented developers for 30 years, developerred are who they need to be, when they need to be that in whatever room theyreom in, no order to get the dial they wont done, done. Dole believe that michael is right and id be happy to debate him. He threw out 0 question from the middle of the room to your derrick that was very funny question. Michael knows what he is doing. Host during the primary who are you supporting . Guest i didnt because i was doing the debates. Was switzerland. I did 170 interviews with eave republican except jim gilmore who i never thought im not going to go to jim gilmore but i. I think each candidate would say i was fair to them from gaming to end. After President Trump won the nomination then it supported him if criticize him when necessary, when he attacked judge kuciel but i was not hesitant to spurt him throughout the summer. I campaigned in order to show support. He went to some blue states that turn red. Look to think we had a hand in them. Host how is paul ryan doing. Guest fine except for the healthcare fiasco. I think the speaker, along with Mitch Mcconnell need to spend more time with their caucus to explain to them we could get wiped out in 2018 if we do notd believe a sufficient number of legislative victories. The Congress View act victories are real victories. Significant hadnt what people understand because theyre bars to the door going forward. They you cant go back and regulate in an area where a congressional regulation has been repealed bay cra act. 13 there will 15 or 16 of them to inch fact, peter, were talkingt about whether to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement is a regulation under the Congressional Review Act statute. If the house and the Senate Repeal that by simple majority vote, not only will be out of the Paris Agreement exwont bev allowed to black except by statutory act. So i hope they go in that direction soon. Host hugh hewitt is our getz, radio talk show host and author. His most recent book i calledhe the fourth way. The conserve tv playbook for a lasting gm g. O. P. Majority. 20d central, 7488201. Mountain and pacific time zone. Well put up our twitter address to send a tweet, book tv and facebook and you can make a posting about the Los Angeles Times festival of book and make a posting under that. Facebook. Com booktv. Host hugh hewitt, in 2006 you wrote a book painting the map red the fight to create a permanent republican majority does that book stand up. Guest it has because like the fourth way, it calls for a border fence, like the fourthke way calls for immigration reform. Like the fourth way call others are large navy. Like the fourth way it calls for Hamilton Union politic. Lived in Southern California since 199 the bored fence a exitses in san diego. Ive gone through it many times. My church does some work town there. And it works. Its effective. I also believe that once its in place most americans will go for a very sweeping regularization, in one is in the deportation mood in california. Welcome back to los angeles. Nobody walks around here worrying about deportation. Lo might be a fringe but this isnt a deportation heavy state. Regularization makes sense. I argued for it in 2006. George w. Bush didnt do it. Went for amnesty, and regularization is different because it does not have a path to citizenship in the and until you return to your home country and i think donald trump will deliver that along with the fence and navy and especially judges. So the recipe is the same. Host Hillary Clinton beat donald trump by three votes the margin in california was four million. You have been threatening to leave the state. Guest we have. Mrs. Hewitt and i have moved to virginia. Were out here for the winter when i teach at Chapman University and i will continue to teach there and i will retire here when im done with salem and nbc and come back to california because i married a californian and you go where your wife is from. But were back in virginia. California tis a california is in a very bad way. What is never talked about issi under funded pension liability which is close in 0,400,000,000,000. We were in downtown lang betwee our panel and my conversation today. The potholes are enormous, road inside bad shape. The infrastructure problem in california are immense and well have an earthquake one of this dies and its going in put the ones lived through to shame. P california is not ready for it. They have a 13. 1 income tax on the highest rates wage earners. If the tax reform think about this. Im against this but right now looks like treasury secretary mnuchin wants to getd of the Home MortgageInterest Deduction and state and local income tax deduction. Thats political suicide and if it does happen there wont be any republicans left in california there while be a 13n tax hike for the middle class in california. Kevin emergency karlly will be wiped out. Devin nunes. Tax reform if they pass the tax reform the democratted get the house back. Why did the democrats win so big in california . My friend pete wilson wont like me to say this. I met my wife at a fundraiser but prop 187, a 1990 proposition, i believe, that was the first get tough on illegal immigration proposition began a crackup of latino support for republicans in california. Right now the District Attorney in Riverside County is half mexican and his mom is mexican. He is fluent in spanish. The hidest ranking latino that republican paster in californiah can call Republican Party in californiaing call their open. Also a stanford law god and a season prosecutor of gang. If he if we do not expand the Republican Party into the latino population of canada california we dont have a statewide office right now, not one. We talk about who is least worst democrat. I endorsed sanchez who lost to Kamala Harris which i believe will be president in four yearsb host is there serious talk about seceding . Guest no. I think that one progressivesve got upset and march and get spun up, three or four percent will talk about that but california cant do without even if there was a path to do it and there isnt isnt it would be in the neither the interest of the golden state or america to get a divorce. Much more likely because of them tuesday which texas became a state. They can break into five states and that would give us ten more senators itch like that. Host hugh hewitt is our guest and joe is call fog from pittsburgh. E guest joe, who dialed the phone for you . Caller hewitt. Y i want to ask you about the Republican Party. Now cliff buckley, what do you think of him and hills view ns his viewed . I recall he voted for obama as opposed to john mccain was ons the ticket. Host joe, whats your view because sarah palin was on the ticket. Whats your view. Caller my view is i votedw i for mike pence as oesed to trump. I figure he is a low life and mrs. Clinton was a he life, so who is the lesser of two evils to me. Host last. Guest will, Christopher Buckley is a very talented writer but i dont look to him for political cues. I think it was a binary choice in november. The only person at 30 rock who voted for donald trump but the country would be way over here on left itself second clipped to had become president clinton and mer ric garland would not be on the Supreme Court and wee would have lolls the United States people court and onlyism forever and Justice Breyer when he did a book making our democracy work, came to myor studio in california and said he mostly regret theadora districtt decisions being 54 against them. If a majority of the Supreme Court ever delves into rei districting theyll come up with a rule that magically uphoedded every democrat favoring rei districting and trikes down republicans one. So i thought the Republican Party was doomed. Now i feel pretty good about and it we have donald trump to thank for that. Host nancy rei redondo beach. Caller now mentioned republicans Foreign Policy and said something about that kind of a thumbs up with President Trump, and im just curious because he went into syria, he did what he did without get anything kind of okay from anyone, whereas president obama tried to do what i think i this right the and good to congress and get approval and people turned him down, the president obama, year giving President Trump the thumbs up. So, just what is your perspective on how its okay for President Trump to go in kind of unilaterally and ill hang up for my answer. Guest a great question. Thank you. If told people president obamas Foreign Policy can summed up in a very few words, leading from behind, redline, jvs, libya, aleppo, crimea. It was a Foreign Policy of passivity. P a Foreign Policy of retreat, a Foreign Policy of defeat and the Foreign Policy that left america and our allies weak in the world. Define success abroad as the incremental expansion of literacy in a growing number of terrible regime ablind west. Trump torontos action against bashar assad in syria was what any president ought to do and is constitutional when it their commander in chief authority. Theres a war powers october which i believe is unstungal and i think the great weight of opinion is that the action that President Trump took vees ave syria was constitutional. President obama could hey e happenand chose not. To i criticizedded rummans at the time for not giving him the authority to do it but their answer in response was he promised only a pin prick and that would have been worse than nothing at all. Im not satisfied with that answer but i believe that history will record president obamas decision to eerase the red loan as the defining moment for his legacy. Host pv pike tweets you should ask why he banned bobt woodward from the nixon lie area and if that is not approve of an impulse for autocraciy on the american right. Guest thats a great story. T i was doing a tour of the Nixon Library in 1989 when it wass being built. Two hours in the archives we to Los Angeles Times reporter and some asked me can nip anyone use this and i said, height alertedly, not bob woodward, hes not a historian. And that wasnt the case. Have got ton known bob woodward. Regret saying that but the fact of the matter is i do not like the book, the fine days all rejected the book as being inaccurate assessment of nixonos time in office. Still believe it. But president nixon overruled me. Host why do you not leak the final days . This is a day in 94 that president nixon died. Guest yes. I was on the air live on pbs with big bird when in my ear green light when the green light comes o on you do you delivery and i am standing next to big bird, and i said, approximation nixon has died. An interview with big bird just ahead. It was a shock. I knew him and liked president nixon very well if served him twice not 1978 to 1980 in california and then new york and then building the library. Much underappreciated, more appreciated now and i think a great lesson for donald trump is that Richard Nixon was brought down by people that were too loyal for him hyperpartisan loyalist, get your presidency in big trouble. You want loyal people, not hyperloyal people who are doing things in your name that you dont know about. The didnt know about the breakin but knew be the coverup. Host what about steve ban knopp. Guest i dont know him. I talked to him once asking him to do an interview. I hope he will. He declined at that time. Ive heard so many different storied about steve ban nonbut i make it a upon not to opine on people until ive met them for talk to them on the radio. Fan of breitbart. I dont read it. Some of the people are good. But i am afraid that it can beia hyperbolic, can inflate what ought not to be inflated, so i my news regime in the morning, im. On from to 9 00 in the morning, and i start with the times of london, then raid the new yorkad times and then the Washington Post and then the wall street journal and the blogs and im fair live confident of the factual basis not the spin but the factual basis of theac story jazz do you watch Television News. Guest not much. Craig mill vein im watching them all the time, all very good and i try and catch chuck todds meet the press daily every night. I have other people on other networks, jake tapper is a great journalist and John Dickerson is a terrific journalist, the sunday television has been very healthy for the country, fourac very fine journalists working on sunday morning which is typically how you define the news for the neck week. S. Host what was Election Night like at nbc. Guest unusual for me. I believe i was going home at 10 00 to do a 6 00 a. M. Show. I got back to my hotel room at 2 00 30. The earthquake began to be felt around 10 00. I slid my iphone over to jim carville who was sitting next to me, and the upshot the New York Times was that moved donald trump f