not running as elizabeth warren. she s a mini-liz, she is in the saying she is going to break up the banks. i think to call this an ideological issue i think is an exaggeration. we talked earlier joe, about there is a populist streak out there for republicans and democrats. she s tapping into some of that. i don t think those positions are inconsistent. so are you saying paul krugman was my friend my buddy is is that what you are saying? i saw your lovely chat on charlie rose. he stopped being my friend after that. after i out debated him. stop you might have done a little better than he did. he said it was his cleveland moment. the first point which is the moment, you distinguish yourself in politics when you distinguish yourself. when you honestly do say something that doesn t fit with the usual rap. not breaking with interest groups. she sounds more like walter mon dale. not to knock walter mon dale.
end of the hostage crisis and it was very clear that the iranians understood that a reagan administration was going to take a very hard line. the negotiations recently started as a result of very tough sanctions that were put into place by congress over the objections of the administration and once the negotiations started then there was a relaxation of those standards those sanctions and i think the iranians have the impression that we feel we need the agreement more than they do. well, it s a very big high stakes gamble. certainly something that s obviously very troubling to you and so many people of course is that iran has never been held accountable for its actions back ten. i really do appreciate you being here. sharing with us your insights and being here today. thank you so much for your service. thank you very much for having me. appreciate it. former vice president walter mon dale is in the hospital we re going to tell you why he was there and the event he was suppos
war as well. a week from mon, march 16th comes another potential show down over the national debt. that s when secretary of the treasury jack lou told congress that the u.s. will hit the debt limit raising the limit requires an act of congress and has often been another topic of last minute bings manship. jerry moran of kansas, senator, thanks for being here on a saturday. are we going to see another showdown a week from now? well, i think there needs to be a showdown over the national debt. i hope there s not a showdown over raising the national debt ceiling. what we need is republicans and democrats who tradition that he will have agreed that the country s financial condition needs attention that we can t continue down the path that we re on to come together well enough to do some things to reduce the path we re on, the spending path we re on and get us in a trajectory in which the debt and deficit are being addressed and we ought not treat
welcome back. some developing news to bring hope you if the health of former vice president walter monday dale he s now in a minnesota hospital with the flu. he was apparently planning to introduce the chief executive he served under during the peace forum but it was jimmy carter who delivered the news. i got through talking to vice president mon dale on the phone he s at mayo clinic in rochester, he went there for just a regular physical examination, but had a fever and they finally said he had influenza he is in a bed but looking forward to coming back home. he said tell everybody he is doing well. he s sorry he wasn t here. we wish him a speedy recovery. mon dale who is 87 has had a long career in politics also serving as a u.s. senator and the ambassador to japan. other cabinet officials is similar to the guidance that officials all across the government has gotten. they should use their official
reagan scored a landslide over walter mon dale. in july, 1986, his approval rating is a goddy 63%. it s the president at the peak of his popularity. but now, let s look at the time magazine cover just five months after that, five months after reagan stood on that ship and tickled america s sweet spot. there it is, it is an ominous photo of the white house. how far does it go in to it there is the iran contra. it was an illegal scheme in which the administration throughouted arms embargo to sell weapons to iran and used the proceeds to illegal war in central america. this time the first line in time story had a different ring to it. washington, it read, is in its full watergate crouch wand that not quite halfway through his second term the momentum behind reagan s presidency stalled out. overnight, his poll numbers plummeteted. you see from 63 to 47%. this became the story of the final two years of reagan s