The 100 days comes up next week. There was a piece coming out in the washington post, but between 13 pieces of statute, new laws, not regulations between the syria reaction, the afghanistan, the response in north korea, the budget, and especially because of justice course gorsuch. Whats significant about the budget . That he has broken out of the starvation he is not known for being defense spending, he is a budget hawk so hes always got a bigger National Security problem. I was a little surprised he would undercut defense. Its still not what it needs to be. There isnt enough money but its going in the right direction. After the shutdown that will be coming. Chuck schumer want to shut down. He will cause a shut down. His hardcore 10 seems to be fighting. Senator schumer is a very smart guy. He knows it was not smart to filibuster neil gorsuch because they reduced the ability to nominate Supreme Court for 51 votes as opposed to having a filibuster available next time and now its down to 51 votes. He did not have a good reason to do that. He will be forced by his base to shut down the government. This time theyve always shut down when republicans are in the white house spread this time a republican president gets to pick what stays open and what shuts down. Will not shut down the Mount Rushmore or the arch or the national mall, we will shut down npr. They will shut down all sorts of things that the left loves. Wait until they get word that theyre not getting any money for a while. I will be very tough on him. How do you grade the Health Care Debate that was held. That was a fiasco for republicans. Part of that is the president s fault, part of its paul ryans fault but mostly i blame the Freedom Caucus or the area 51 sub caucus within the Freedom Caucus who believe in legislative flying saucers. They pretend the senate has more republicans than it does. They pretend Susan Collins are going to cut medicaid, theyre not. They pretend the rollback of preexisting conditions can be pushed away. N they pretend a lot. Those 20 25 members have got to realize incrementalism works. Well ge hopefully by this time a month from now we will get there but it wont happen for 400 a. When you look at the fourth way, what are the issues they have to get over. They have to get over immigration, i put that in the beginning of the book. One doctor kid has been deported. He said dont worry, were keeping you and thats very good. I think he telegraphed once the border wall goes up and we have additional security on the order there is a deal to be had with Immigration Reform. He has got to have an infrastructure package. They talk about how too do that the right way. I can get ten times as much done with one tenth of the money, and i think hes done the most effective thing in repudiating the form policy. Eann hes been very effective at doing it the right way thus far. What you mean when you say the fourth way. That you have a 350 ship maybe, a much larger marine corps that we presently have and you do everything you have to be great strength and not weakness. You drop 59 cruise missiles on a mass murderer. You dont draw a redline. Michael was on this program a little earlier to talk about his book. One of the things he writes in his most recent book is that donald trump is the most dangerous racist demagoguee weve ever had in office. That overlooks the fact that a lot of people prior to the civil war were slaveholders. Hes a very smart guy and a agri provocateur, but youd have to erase Civil War History to get to that point. I dont agree with him on that point. T, t i also agree, i dont think hes a racist or homophobic i dont believe any of that stuff. Hes a developer. Ive represented developers for 30 years. They are who they need to be when they need to be that in order to get the deal done that they want done. I really dont think michael is right. Id be happy to debate him about that. He threat question which was a very funny question. Michael knows what its doing. During the primary, who are you supporting . I didnt. During the debate i was switzerland. I did 170 interviews with every republican except jim gilmer who i never thought, im not going to go to jim gilmore. 170 different interviews and i think each candidate would say i was fair to them from beginning to end. After trump won the nominationti i criticized him. After that was over, i was not in the least, i campaigned with a few other people, and we went to some blue statesi that turned red. House paul ryan doing. Hes doing fine except for the healthcare fiasco. That was a big deal. I think the speaker, along with Mitch Mcconnell needs to t spend a lot more time to explain we could get wiped out in 2018 if we do not deliver a sufficient number of legislative victories. Their real victories and significant beyond what people understand because they are bars to the door goingn forward. You cant go back and regulate in an area where regulation has been repealed. There are 13 of those. In fact, were talking about the paris agreement, thats a regulation under the Congressional Review Act statute. If the house and Senate Repeal that by simple majority, not only will be be out of the paris agreement, we wont be able to go back there except for by statutory act. Im kind of hoping they go inl that direction soon. Hugh hewitt is our guest. His most recent book is called the fourth way, the playbook for lasting gop majority. Heres how you can call us, 202 7488200. For those of you in the eastern time zone. We will also put up her twitter address if you would like to send a tweet booktv and facebook. And you can make comment there and youll see a posting about the festival of books. Facebook. Com we will get to those calls in just a few minutes. The map re in 2006 you wrote a book painting the map red, the fight to create a republicanre majority. T does that book stand up. It has because like the fourth way, it calls for a border fence and Immigration Reform and a large navy. I have been urging the visible expression to sovereignty for quite a long time. The border fence exists in san diego. Ive been there many times. It works. Its effective. I also believe once its in place most americans will go for a sweeping regulation. No one is in the deportation mood in california. No one walks around here worrying about deportation. I argued for in 2006. They went for amnesty and regularization is different. Ss i think donald trump will deliver along with the fence in the navy and judges. The recipe is the same. When republicans follow that they win. Ld trump by 3 its updated ten years later but its the same recipe. we h. You been threatening, every time i talk too, threatening to leave the state. We are out here for the winter, when i speak at the school of law and i will continue to teach there and i will retire when im done and i will come back to california and you go where your wife goes. Thats the deal. We are back in virginia and california is in a bad way. I know you mentioned you have a panel on california. Whats never talked about is the liability in california which is closing in on 400 billion. We were in downtown l. A. And the potholes are enormous. The roads are in bad shape. The infrastructure problem are immense and we will have an earthquake one of these days that will put the ones ive lived through to shame. California is not ready for that. They have 13. 1 income tax on the highest wage earner. Im against us, but it looks like they want to get rid of the Home Mortgage deduction deduction and wants to get rid of the state and local tax. Thats political suicide. If it does happen, there wont be any republicans left in california. Kevin mccarthy will get wiped out, devon nunez, theyve got 15 republicans from california. If they pass that reform, the republicans will get the house back. N why did they win so big in california. This my friend would like me to say this, i met the governor at a fundraiser and ive always liked pete, but prop90 pi 187 which was a 1990 proposition, that was the first get tough proposition that began a crackup of latino support. The District Attorney iniv riverside county, his mom is mexican, he is the highestranking latino that the Republican Party can call o their own. Is a seasoned prosecutor, hes our future hope, but if we dont expand to the latino population, they will never, we dont have an office right now and there wont be one. We talked about whos the least worst democrat. E presiden this is near the land of the blue. No republicans is ever going to break. When progressives get upset and they march and they get spun up, three or 4 , but they can do without, it would be neither of the interest. [inaudible] whats more likely is they can break into five states. That would give us ten more senators. I like that. Joe is calling in from pittsburgh what do you think of him and his views. N he voted for obama opposed to john mccain because sarah palin was on the ticket. T. Before joe what is your view . Actually, my view, i voted for mike pence as opposed to hos mrs. Clinton was a lowlife and trump is a lowlife so its the lesser of two evils for me. A very talented writer but i dont look to him for political cues. N i think right now it was a binary choice in november. I may be the only person at 30 rock who voted for donald trump, but the country would be way over here on the left if secretary clinton had become president clinton and jue neil gorsuch wouldnt be the justice and we wouldve lost the Supreme Court in originall is in forever. Justice breyer, he came to my studio and said he mostly regretted that redistrictingof p decisions being 54 against him. If the majority of the Supreme Court ever delves into redistricting they will come up with a rule that magically upholds every democratrepublican favoring redistricting. I thought for five months ago the Republican Party was doomed, now im feeling pretty good about it and we have them to thank for that. Nancy. You mentioned president obamas Foreign Policy and you said something about kind of a thumbsup with President Trump. Did wi he went into syria and did what he did without gettinga any okay from anyone. President obama tried to do the right thing and you go to congress and you get the approval and they were giving President Trump a thumbsup so just what is your perspective on how its okay for president l trump to go in unilaterally . Is a great question. Thank you. Ign policy ive told them that his presidency can be summed up in a few words. Leaving from behind, red lines, crimea, aleppo, it was a Foreign Policy of passively and retreat i define success road as the and defeat and it left america and our allies weaker in the world. donald trump trumps action against bashar assad in syria was what any president ought to do and it is constitutional within their commander in chief authority. Theres a war powers act which i believe is unconstitutional. And i think the great weight of opinion is that the action that President Trump took visavis syria was constitutional. President obama could have dutch and it chose not. To i criticized republicans at the time for that giving him the authority to do it but their answer in response was he promis their answer in response is that he promised a perfect and that would have been worse than nothing at all. Im not satisfied with that to s answer but i believe history will record president obamas decision to erase the redline as the defining moment of his presidency and a disaster for his legacy and the country. In. You should ask why he banned bob woodward from the Nixon Library and if that is not proof of the impulse for hypocrisy from the american rights. Ic thats a great story. I was doing a tour of the Nixon Library in 1989 when it was being built and two hours in the al qaeda and end it she asked,ot can anyone use a i said lightheartedly, not bob woodward that became the story of the headline. I have since got to know bob very well. The fact of the matter is i do not. However bob woodward has done extruded a work on the last three president s in real time in a series of books. I dont know how critical, i feel billet but president nixon fi overwhelming. Why do you not like the final days work this is the final day that president nixon died. I was live on pbs with big bird when in my ear, the green light came on and they said, i s right when the light comes on, you do your delivery and im standing next to big bird and i said present network has died in an interview with bergs right ahead. It was a shock. I knew and liked president nixon very well. I served him twice. Lesson f 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 to him. Hyper partisan loyalists can get your presidency in big trouble. You want loyal people but you dont want hyper loyal people who are doing things in your name that you dont know about. Richard nixon didnt know about the watergate breakin. And for that he had to resign. What about steve bannon mark. Ive talked to him exactly once. Asking him to do an interview with me and he will but he declined at that time. I have heard so many stories about steve bannon and i make a point not to pick a side on people until i met them and talk to them on the radio. E im not a fan of breitbart. I dont read it. I know some people are good and there are a lot of good writers there but im afraid that it can be hyperbolic, that it can inflate what not to be inflated. My news regime in the morning and im on from 6 00 a. M. To 9 00 a. M. In the morning. I start with the times of london , the New York Times, the washington post, the wall street journal and i go to the blogs. That way i know every story that is going and im fairly confident of the factual basis. Not the spin but the factualms basis of the story being presented do you watch Television News . Not much. I watch ms and nbc because i work for nbc so im trying it breitbart, michelle, im watching them all the time, and theyre all very good but i try chris todd meet the press daily and i have other people on other networks. John dickerson is a terrific journalist and the transition on sunday television to chalk, John Dickerson has been very healthy for the country. Alists a there find journalist working on a sunday morning. Was Election Night like . It was unusual for me. I believe that i was going on at 10 00 p. M. That night to do a 6 00 a. M. Show the next morning. The earthquake began to be felt around 10 00 p. M. I split my iphone over to a friend next to me and the upshot at the New York Times with donald trump moved to the 75 me favorite and james knew that meant the end. From that moment on i tried to stay out of it. Its a tough thing to lose anin election you think youre going to win. Its a very hard thing when its your friend. I tried not to be fist pumping some members of the crew were republicans but i was as stunned as anyone else. He bit if there was a confession protocol for media as well there is for the nfl, wed still be in that. That was the biggest shock of my political life. 1995 was a political shot. The 14 was a shock. This was an 8. 0 mac amy barnesmp was written a new book called shattered about the Hillary Clinton campaign will be on the washington journal on sunday a. M. And you can watch that on cspan. This is tv on cspan two and were talking with author hugh hewitt. Up next is john in hoboken. Go ahead john. Caller i wanted to touch base with the republican failure to read peele obamacare. Theyre missing an opportunity and i want to i keep seeingee the total repeal without any replacement or no exchange at all but a while back thee president gerald ford proposed a National Access policy in which the government takes the back end of the most severe portion of healthcare coverage and has a free market for people but takes away the extreme costs for the Insurance Companies thereby allowing them to adversely coverage the lower rates. I dont know why they dont explore that. Ea i thought it was a good idea then and i think its a good idea now speak to whatever they had in the belt didnt work. They had to come back with the amendment which as i understand establishes high risk people and offers the right to reduce the mandatory minimum benefits and allows underwriting to help. This is not a good idea. This guarantees issuance with a fiveone, sevenone, nineone. I would take obamacare with leading people to the age of six no exclusion on preexisting conditions and as much portability as you can and combine it with other stuff and move port. I like the bill as it was written. Primarily because it blocked it it would be the first evolution of a major Settlement Program to the states since the new deal. Its a unique opportunity the Freedom Caucus swung and missed on. It was a giant mistake. Getting an Entitlement Program down to the states where they can manage it just like i mentioned to peter, i left california for virginia but 18 years prior to this i served on an Orange County board that did zero to five Children Healthcare we spent the cigarette tax money on it. Co he knew what to do better to do with the money than washington or dc knew what to do. It would be a hugely importantou back to taking care of people with their basic advanced healthcare needs and the sooner we can revisit that the better it will be off. We cant have over having because were in a death spiral right now. Obamacare they say that its a falsehood and their opinion is not rooted