called -- barry goldwater is to run for president attracted crockpots. you are early to identify new chapter of conspiracy theories in the conservative movement with the video you contacted about human on. how do you, congressman, go about dealing keen the conspiracy theories from the conservative base right now? >> i think one of the big keys we have to be honest. when i did my first video on conspiracy theories the reason i did it is i have a familiarity with conspiracy theories. is get a remember then mid-90s the idea of you and helicopters and fema camps being built to decapitate people and all this crazy stuff that of course never came true. at the time it can suck you in. never did for me but i remember in 2015 idea they called it jade home the federal government would overthrow texas. even the texas government at the time activated the national guard to quote unquote monitor. i think first we have to be clear and honest. we have to, as leaders, quit looking at her job as simply just to get elected. that is where we have the word leader behind our

listen to this interpret where they are talking about barry goldwater. >> goldwater's candidacy did attract to his banner, wlepted them or not, a number of yahoos and a number of crack pots and a number of far-right people. >> buckley doesn't deny for moment that barry goldwater's run for president attracted yahoos and crack pots. you were early to identify a new chapter of conspiracy theories in the conservative movement with a video that you conducted about qanon. how do you, congressman, go about delinking the conspiracy theories from the conservative base? >> so, i think one of the big keys is we have to just be honest. so when i did my first video on conspiracy theories, the reason i did it is i have a familiarity with conspiracy theories. i remember in the mid-'90s, the u.n. helicopters and the fema camps that were being built to decapitate people and all this crazy stuff that never came true. it can suck you in. i remeer even in 2015, jade helm, this idea that the federal government was going to overthrow texas and even greg abbott activated the state guard to, quote, unquote monitor

barry goldwater lost the battle in '60s but he ended up winning the war by the '80s. bernie sanders in a much quicker time line appears to have done the same thing. >> as an analyst of politics and someone who has worked in it, how do you differ between whether biden is channelling bernie or biden is channelling where most democrats are after everything we have been through as a country? >> i think it is a combination of the two. i think biden saw that what president clinton did and what president obama did, which is that they viewed corporations and they wanted to work cooperatively with corporations. they didn't view corporations as the enemy. they wanted to work with them to get better outcomes for workers. bernie, because, quite frankly, he was never a mainstream democrat. he was never democrat at all. he actually quite clearly saw the corporations are in e business of making money. and no matter what they say about helping people, they really aren't about creating better outcomes for the workers. they're about improving their own bottom line. i think bernie very

barry goldwater himself was not intensely pro-life, but he did hold some very conservative issues. his views on the civil rights act. he certainly was a proponent of kind of a robust, staunch, stringent view of laissez-faire economics, and his foreign was anti-soviet and anti-communist. those were the three legs of the capital conservative movement. as conservative lore would have it, the unsuccessful nomination of goldwater in 1964 paved the way for reagan's mere ability. he almost knocked off ford in the 1976 presidential primary, and then ultimately was successful for years later in 1980. so the conservative movement takes a while to reach its pinnacle, but the fusionist, buckley-centric movement reaches its design it in the presidency of reagan. a legacy that continues to be debated today. some of our libertarian-minded friends point one of reagan's statements where he more or less says the very heart and soul of my conservative philosophy is libertarianism. he did say that. it is also true that he imposed tariffs on japanese automobiles to try and help detroit and the american

senator barry goldwater, the arch conservative senator from arizona, once told buchwald, you are one of those people who have the ability to make us think, make us laugh, make us cry, and love our fellow man. and for that, i thank you. but who was art buchwald the man? before talking about his extraordinary life and career, i would like to play a clip from a radio interview he did in new york city in 1964. this clip is courtesy of knee w. and why you archives in new york. in the interview he talks a bit about his approach to humor, his early life and how his career as a humorous came to be. many of you remember art buchwald, will recognize his accent. >> this is patricia marks. my guest today is a man who has been called the most comic american since mark twain. he is mr. art buchwald. columnist for the new york herald tribune and the author of the recent book, i chose capital punishment. mr. buchwald, did you always write as you do know? >> well, yes. in a sense i did. i never wrote too seriously. you know they say that says humorous usually have unhappy childhoods. in my case it mi

two men had met in 1964 at a barry goldwater rally in california. where ronald reagan was speaking and obviously ronald reagan would have been notable to people in california at the time due to being in movies. so paul ax salt and ronald reagan as respective governors of their neighboring states, california and nevada one of their big initiatives that they work together on was was really the the conservation of the lake tahoe basin and lake tahoe the lake itself. they formed what was called the tahoe regional planning agency trpa. and that was just that that was to try to stymie some of the development. try to make better water quality in the lake and and that kind of created a friendship that lasted basically for the rest of their lives the rest of their careers. in 1976 the the presidential election was coming up. so you have gerald ford running as the incumbent of the republican party and then you have jimmy carter who is running for the democratic party. paul laxalt again, like i said a minority within a minority there thought it would be a good

senator barry goldwater, the archconservative from arizona once told buchwald, you are one of those people who have the ability to make us think, laugh, cry and love our fellow man. for that, i thank you. but who was the man? before talking about his life and career, i would like to play a clip from a radio interview he did in new york city in 1964. this is courtesy of the w nyu archives in new york in the interview, he talks a bit about his approach to humor, his early life and how his career as a humorist came to be. many of you who remember ellen wald will recognize that distinct truth accent. >> this is patricia marx. my guest is a man who has been called the most comic american since mark twain, mr. art buchwald, columnist and author of the recent, "i chose capital punishment. -- punishment." >> i never wrote too seriously. they say humorists usually have unhappy childhoods. in my case that might be true. at an early age, i sort of had a different outlook on things than most other kids did. i made use of it. >> in what way did you have a different attitude? >> i don't know how to expl

goldwater, richard nixon, but really to everybody so. fidel castro was interrogated on the subject of communism anywhere he went on his visit. vice president nixon, by congressional subcommittee, by scores of journalists, everyone asked him the same question. doctor castro, are you a communist? and he answered the same every time. no, he was not a communist, never had, been never would be. when castro finally left new york on april 25th, the police were relieved to see him go. but most new yorkers were happy that he had come to visit. editorial in the new york times summed up the general attitude towards castro as he left, quote, he made it quite clear that neither he or anyone of importance in his government, so far as he knew was a communist. by the same token, it seems obvious that the americans feel better about castro than they did before. well that changed, that changed very fast. and the book, i go into some detail regarding. what happened after castro returned to cuba after his american visit, how things went sour so quickly. for