jack kemp republican i knew jack very well spent many hours of them on and off the air where he'd think of what's gone on today. i think he would think that the party our party the republican parties missed a really big opportunity and that is to insure its own survival by making it appeal to new voters new communities minority communities specifically i mean we are supposed to be the party that was formed for that very purpose was to you know to liberate provide equal justice and i think jack kemp's message was the right one and one we should get back to and it's a shame that. the media has a lot to do with with misrepresenting a lot of where our party stands on issues but it's a shame that our party is not focused more on that and should be right now. to get to some of the areas the investigations the explosive devices continues with so it was the march of immigrant count of them two of the u.s. born in this interim states that there were terrorists within the count of and nothing's been proven what do you make of that mess. well the president statements are incredibly shameful and th

legacy is jack kemp. the $6 trillion for urban america. this message, how much of an impact will it have in 2020? it seems like you are heating the democratic base really hard. speaker ryan: that wasn't my motivation. we started working on this when i was in my early 20's with jack kemp. we called them opportunity zones. i never considered they political effects so i don't know the answer to that question. just so people know what we are talking about, during the tax law that we passed, 25% of the lowest income census tracts in america are opportunity zones. that means anyone can take an investment, so that investment and not pay capital gains tax, pour it into an opportunity zone, create jobs, economic development, put people to work, fix housing, and keep your investment there for 10 years and you don't take capital gains tax on it. cap intoe try to do is that $61 of unrealized capital gains out there and put it into the poor communities in america -- that $6 trillion of unrealized capital gains out there and put it into the poorer commu

i have been working on this since i was in my early 20s when i worked with jack kemp. we used to call them enterprise zones back in the day. we call them opportunity zones. so i never considered the political effects of it candidly so i don't know the answer to that question. but just so people know what we're talking about, what opportunity zones are, they are in the tax law that we passed, this re in the tax cut and jobs act. 25% of the lowest income census tracks now in america are opportunity zones. and that means anybody can take an investment, sell that investment, not pay capital gains tax on it, pour it into an opportunity zone, create job, create economic development, put people to work, fix housing, and keep your investment there for at least ten years and due pay capital gains tax on it. so what we are trying to do is tap into that $6 trillion of unrealized capital gains that is out there and get it into the poor communities in america. we think that combined with evidence-based policy makes, another effort of ours, combined with social impact bonds which wa

if you believe you can win -- and i'm sure jack kemp -- not jack kemp, i wish we had jack kemp. >> brian kemp. >> brian kemp, if he believes he can win fair and square, why not remove all doubt and step down and not be the referee of your own -- i've never -- there is zero trust here. if he wants to be a leader, he should step down. >> we just dealt with this in kansas where the secretary of state was also running and it got sticky there also. it is an odd situation and, in fact, in kansas i remember the guy saying on this show, i'll step away, i get it's a conflict, i'll step away if i have to step away. why create the controversy here? >> stacey abrams is creating the controversy. stacey abrams voted against electronic online registration, voter registration, and she created the new georgia project that is going out there and registering people with these paper registration form which is can be sloppy. so why not do it electronically? why is she in this new georgia adverse to registering electronically? it would cut a lot of stuff. and who doesn't have a cell phone these days? you can

jack kemp endorsed him and took away his endorsement because he had a tough stance on immigration. some of the ads were taken off the air. i don't know that much about him politically. i studied up on him a little bit. so, he's an extremist. listen, there are conservative people of color, no doubt. but it doesn't matter which color you are, you can be an extremist on any end of the spectrum, left or right. so he's considered that. but it's just sad. invoking -- people should be upset if a white girl screams rape. it's just like every racist trope and ignorant trope that you can think of. >> and he puts all that ignorance because i'm assuming he was behind what was going to be said by these black women, it plays on stereotypes in terms of the way they speak and the level of certification and what they seem to be communicating. what would any black voter, conservative or not, if they heard that ad what are they going to think? not like you speak for all black people. but how would you like that? like the sopranos representing the italian-americans. >> it's not like i'm the african-am

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kemp was doing it for urban areas. understand how the congress works i have been in the middle of it also the congressional relations officer so to downsize my own federal agencies. eft 99 closed for checkwriting centers and improve the service to the american people. moving them to the congress to know where the bodies are buried in reform government. feehan: washington is full of. hagedorn: - - 11 they are beholden to their party leaders and that is why i have not taken a dime from corporated pacs because from moving anything forward hopefully we can talk about health care. and to have an unwillingness. >> that's why it's broken and people are cynical about politics today. >> we can talk on any number of issues. so just on the area of agriculture. and what about addressing water quality of the southern minnesota lakes and streams? . >> absolutely. farmers are stewards of their old man. it is incumbent on the rest of the community but you have to have investment with the idea of infrastructure. nobody knows that more

and with the rural enterprise zones when people like jack kemp or doing it for urban areas. i understand how congress works also as a relations officer with my own federal agency that is unheard of to eliminate 5 percent of $2 billion of those bills through the congress to know where those bodies are buried to unearth those to downsize government. >> washington is full of jim hagedorn that is why it is broken those that are beholden and that's why i'm not taking a dime from corporate tax and then to have an unwillingness. >> that is why people are still on - - cynical about politics. . >> so getting a question from a listener what could the federal government do to address water quality? feehan: we have to take advantage that farmers are stewards of the land to make policy through not sticks. but there has to have investment because infrastructure is and just roads and bridges but the investment of water nobody knows that more but water in the first place there is a role they are part of doing incredible work that should not be paid - - based on that alone the idea of regula

some of his partners are consulting for a rival politician, jack kemp. atwater keeps swearing he will. jeb bush says, what we mean is if someone throws a grenade at our father, will you jump on it? they are mistrustful of this consultant, but he is telling them, stay clean. in the middle of these warnings, will george w. bush -- this is only a year before he decides to give up drinking altogether. so that is the background on drinking. he has had these warnings. he does not want to get into trouble. as far as religion, i don't want i to -- i am not going to say that someone's religion has a political component in its origins, but i will say as soon as george w. bush becomes an evangelical christian, he becomes the liaison for his father's presidential campaign with evangelical christians. it is a role he plays throughout the 1988 campaign and up to and through the 1992 campaign. brian: how often did he run for office before he ran for governor of texas? and in the midst of all that, when did he meet laura welch and marry her? james: first, he ran for off

look, the gop orthodoxy has gone so far astray from the jack kemp days when i joined the party where we embraced this notion of equality of opportunity for all people. based on that foundation, we suggested rolling back interference from government. what we did in moving to a less government party is we actually removed all the proper tools that government can deploy to empower people, particularly communities that are less fortunate. we have contributed as republicans to an economic disparity, to an education disparity, frankly, to a cultural disparity among many of our communities. what i didn't anticipate in leaving the party, though, which i really find relief in right now, is the rejection of partisanship. we are living in such a hyperpartisan world and there are roles for parties certainly we know that. but look, from george washington warning against factions, to barack obama begging to get us to a post-partisan world, we're not there yet. so maybe in an independent lane, i can contribute to that. i will say this. i did stay and fight for three years. a lot of people have said

but philosophically, i'm more aligned with the jack kemp type republican wing. but let me say this also. doesn't make democrats bad people. and we're in an environment where if you're a republican, oftentimes you're saying democrats are bad people, and vice versa. i think that that's -- that kind of talk exacerbates a situation and makes people -- drives hate. that's why we get bombs and death threats and all this other stuff going on. >> you're in the tradition of people like tom ridge and good people like that, and bill scranton. a lot of good republicans. going back a bit, all civil rights guys all the way. thank you so much, congressman ryan costello. ashley parker, as also, "washington post" eugene robinson, thank you. >>> coming up, we'll get to the latest on the investigation. this is hot stuff, a detective story now. those ten bombs, explosive devices sent to president obama, hillary clinton, and other top democrats. plus. one of trump's top rallying cries in 2016 was that hillary clinton was putting national security at risk by using an unsecured e-mail

. >> jack, let me start with you. abrams is asking for secretary kemp to resign, putting out a statement brian kemp is maliciously wielding his power of the office for political gain and silence voices of thousands of eligible voters, majority of them people of color. what do you make of this request for him to resign? >> i think number one it is a manufactured crisis. she pulled this every election year since 2014. she makes a big deal about it and then it might go to court, might not go to court, but always fades away. 53,000 people are in question, every one of them can vote. her claims are so bad that the aclu, hardly a republican pro-camp group, has said she's wrong. that all of these people will be eligible to vote. it is a provisional situation because unfortunately for george so soros and other groups that back her, they have to comply by the law, but courts upheld the law. >> jack, reconcile the numbers. you have 53,000 registrations on hold, nearly 70% of them are african-american applicants or registry. >>