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but not huge rings of material that i think as i is they said was one of the most difficult on american life of anybody even though he is a judge and the president. thurgood marshall one of his dissents i believe it was and maybe it was in boston, he said that if america had done what it was supposed to have done in that time period, and he talks about this reconstruction period as a point of lost opportunity and i think that you cannot lame one person for all the good that happens or all the bad that happens. the president and the president is a leader of the country, the symbolic l...

dhaka as he died last year in september but we are joined by his son who will probably need no introduction of anybody watching this. watching this. he grew up in new york. let's see if i know your resume, use to be my boss, harvard university, worked for william bennett in the education department and now it's a fine magazine where i used were called the weekly standard. >> guest: very well done. >> host: i thought we would start by talking about your dad's life because i think neoconservatism and a lot of american conservatism flows out his life and the first thing i want to ask yo...

recession was even lower than it was today. appealing to reagan democrats, independents, that politics of addition and not division which came from of rough term. what lessons do you think that any candid should take from your father success in 1984 going into that election with a rough economy, a lot of frustration, and being able to win that crossover appeal said decisively that he wins virtually unanimously. >> guest: you have a great sense of humor. >> host: it helps. >> guest: having people believe in you. people believe in ronald reagan. you know, today we don't believe in poli...

progressives understand in terms of how the system works and it will be dealt with. on some level he has a plan in terms of dealing with the obstruction that he is going to come up with in terms of delivering what it is that we really help from his campaign he was going to be able to deliver and whether or not there should be some hope, i guess, is what i'm looking for, ultimately if he gets another term he will be able to deliver on. >> good question. well said. i think he can rest assured that he does understand the things that i understand and more. i feel confident about that. th...

Efforts in guantanamo. on the eve of the state of the union as obama will likely cast himself as a fiscal conservative, the democratic establishment is searching for an answer to the question, what happened to hope and change? joining us now is eric alterman, column nift for the nation and author of "kabuki democracy." if it were not for the system, barack obama would do it differently. >> i think that's the case. i want to say he'd do it completely differently. but i think obama ran an honest presidential campaign. i think he meant what he said. i think he intended to make good on the promise...