Its good toagan see norm and your incoming senator kerry oleary. In his book, larry said that jerry filled his coat pockets with pastries. Earlier tonight, just to be safe, i told him, keep your hands off my dinner roll. Said repairing me for a press conference was like reinventing the wheel. Its not true, i was around when the wheel was invented, and it was easy. [laughter] [applause] fmr. Pres. Reagan even howard baker is writing a book about me. Five, thed three by measure of a president. [laughter] mike said reagan that i have a short Attention Span in his book. I was going to reply to that, lets movehe hell, on to something else. [laughter] fmr. Pres. Reagan now, i forgot jacob smirnov. I have heard him before and he is a funny man. Why dont you and i have a little fun . How would you like to go to the summit as my interpreter . [laughter] [applause] the media reagan certainly has had a lot to report on lately. I thought it was extraordinary that Richard Nixon went on meet the pre
Tonight, we will mark the tradition by showing speeches from past years, including those from president hill clinton, george w. Bush and barack obama. But first, remarks by president ronald reagan, delivering his last speech to the dinner in 1988. [applause] you. Pres. Reagan thank thank you. [applause] fmr. Pres. Reagan thank you. Thank you very much. Please. Thank you all. I am delighted to be here. My, what a crowd. It looks like the index of larrys book. [laughter] [applause] its good toagan see norm and your incoming senator kerry oleary. In his book, larry said that jerry filled his coat pockets with pastries. Earlier tonight, just to be safe, i told him, keep your hands off my dinner roll. Said repairing me for a press conference was like reinventing the wheel. Its not true, i was around when the wheel was invented, and it was easy. [laughter] [applause] fmr. Pres. Reagan even howard baker is writing a book about me. Five, thed three by measure of a president. [laughter] mike sa
Tell you about him, what would you say . James i would say he was a guy who was the son of a president , had trouble dealing with that fact for the first 40 yearsplus of his life and then got his own personal life together enough to be a quite successful and shrewd politician to be elected governor of texas, and then became president of the united states. The first thing he would be known for then at the time of his presidency now and forever more will certainly be the fact that he was president at the time of the september 11th attacks and chose to wage a war in iraq that turned out to be a disaster. Brian what were his early years like . James well, he followed in his fathers footsteps and i say that quite literally, because he was forced almost to go to prep school at andover. He went to yale. He did many of the things his father did. It really in his mind, i think, it was not him. He once said many years later there were differences between him and his father starting with the fact
but only on the gun crackdown policieses that he supports instead of trying to find common ground, the president taking the opportunity to bash and blame republicans. but according to a new poll, the majority of americans don t agree with biden. over half don t see schoolng shootings as a guns problem. but that s not stopping biden from trying to strong arm congress into doing what he wants for so many of you at home. i want tonyat be very clear . this is not about taking away anyone s guns. we need to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines and if we can t ban assault weapons, then we should raise the aget to purchase them from 18 to 21 . the fact is a majority of the senate republicans don t want any of these proposals even to be debated or come up for a vote. i find unconscionable. nci believe the majority of youg will act to turn your outrage into making this issueth a centralis to your vote. enough enough is enough. but that s not good enough for some on the left
Headquarters, boy, what a different scene there right now. And what a bizarre scene unfolding. The music playing behind me, bruce i want to tell you george, the Campaign Chair is leaving the hotel where hes been watching. Hillary clinton is in that hotel, and were told hell be making an announcement here to say the call right now. Thats coming in at this moment. We have not heard from Hillary Clinton herself. The last tweet from her and her twitter account was over four hours ago when she said, whatever happens tonight, thank you for everything. I want to note this arena was to shut down at 2 05 eastern, five minutes from now. Were told it will be kept open a little while longer after that. We dont know for how much somethings going to happen. Theres a number of staffers coming down an escalator where the vip section was filing into this room now, george. All right. We may be hearing that at the top with the Campaign Chair, but when you go through this, state by state by at a time stat