The Ronald Reagan Tape | All In | MSNBC

Chris Hayes looks at how Ronald Reagan’s recently released phone call with President Richard Nixon squares with what are already know about the two men.
» Subscribe to MSNBC:

MSNBC delivers breaking news, in-depth analysis of politics headlines, as well as commentary and informed perspectives. Find video clips and segments from The Rachel Maddow Show, Morning Joe, Meet the Press Daily, The Beat with Ari Melber, Deadline: White House with Nicolle Wallace, Hardball, All In, Last Word, 11th Hour, and more.

Connect with MSNBC Online
Visit msnbc.com:
Subscribe to MSNBC Newsletter:
Find MSNBC on Facebook:
Follow MSNBC on Twitter:
Follow MSNBC on Instagram:

The Ronald Reagan Tape | All In | MSNBC

70 comments

    1. @President Donald J. Trump I think yo yo’s string broke. the “deplorables” stand solidly behind you. Have a sack of Big Macs and a few milkshakes then pass a nice juicy fart. they deserve it.

  1. The republican party has always had more than its share of racists. There used to be a mix. There were several republicans that championed the 1964 Civil rights bill, most unpopular among many republicans and all Dixiecrats. The Dixiecrat were still a force, at the time, until they all became republicans.

    1. @Yo-yos Tenbucks troll farms are Russia’s biggest industry now. if you’re a us citizen, you might consider emigrating . no sense being a fool and a tool for free.

    1. @Gustavo Fabregas there’s no doubt Reagan made a racist remark and I am not defending his remarks…At the end of the day nearly all of our past heroes were flawed humans beings in some way. And I think it’s petty to destroy the legacy of these people for political point scoring.

    2. @Dorian Shades of gray bottom line is that his policies on thw “War on drugs” perpetuated mass incarceration of minorities that needed help instead of being them to heel.

      Look at how we are dealing with the opioid epidemic today. He didn’t have such empathy in the crack era. This just put those days in perspective.

  2. We’d heard rumors of this conversation taking place, but the tape provides *irrefutable evidence* that GOTPers, including their ‘St. Ronnie’, have been *what they are* …for *decades* now.👎
    *So* embarrassing for America… 😒

    1. Context is everything in this case. And, It’s how some very respectable people make reference in some private situations. The Tanzanians he was referring to were acting highly divergent in relation to Euro-western cultural standards,…. such as apparently ‘dancing’,…. and not wearing shoes? (I expect they were wearing shoes). But, let’s behave ourselves.

    2. No, Bon…just ‘no’. 🤦‍♀️
      Reagan called them “monkeys”.
      Nixon called them “cannibals”.
      #45 said they’re from “…sh1thole countries…”, and *far* worse.
      That’s a wee bit *more* than just ‘divergent’. 😏

  3. To protect Reagan’s privacy?? 1.Presidents/former presidents have no privacy, 2. If it was important to protect it then, why not protect the privacy of a dead man?

    1. Protect the propaganda of his image. Ronald(6 letters) Wilson(6) Reagan(6) – “Numbers don’t lie”.

  4. I don’t know why anyone should be surprised by this. The Man had contempt for the marginalized and downtrodden. Reagan also started this whole Evangelical Movement and Trickle-Down Economics.

    1. He also started rhis whole surge of immagrants with his “guest worker program”. or “amnesty”.

    2. Timothy McCaskey Because of Reagan and his amnesty, California and much of the country is now full of monkeys.

    3. Yes Reagan did grant amnesty, what you committed is Democrats promised border security in exchange for amnesty then flaked after the amnesty was granted…..that’s an important detail.

  5. The question is why it was released just now, did they want to keep this lie called “Ronald Reagan” forever?

    1. @Daniel Moore How about the fact that Reagan shut down the “revolving door “policy regarding work visa’s which has DIRECTLY resulted in the “immigration crisis” talking points used today.

      AND sure he had a Great GDP under his presidency…but his policy only made the rich richer and kept the poor right where they where.

    2. @Blame_HitReg that’s a flat-out lie he help the immigration process because of the great prosperity in the nation and as far as the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer that is a flat out lie I lived in poverty during the Carter Administration during the Reagan Administration poverty was actually lifted too much extent I remember how vividly how bad things were in the late 70s and in the eighties people begin to enjoy prosperity in a level never seen before by poor people

    3. @Eric Larsen well that kinda happened because he pulled us out of the greatest recession since the great depression. moved the economy back on track and left it in great shape for trump to claim all the credit. whats it like in the world of make believe?

  6. The Republican party before Trump was the “party of Regan” #ReganTheRacist, now it’s the party of Trump. Yeah, Trump simply brought the pus out of the pimple. Even if the Dems win the pus will still be there. No real news here.

  7. I remember growing up in Indiana how racist people would talk. Even though i was just a little tiny girl, it broke my heart to hear such cold-blooded comments

    1. Same in Iowa. As a multi racial person it was a nightmare. The funny part is they still lie about it. Great people.

    2. Donald Trump 666 has always been an evil genius. He doesn’t do emails, he never writes anything down, and he doesn’t record anything. This is how eluded Mueller with his treasonous activities with the Russians.

  8. He’s a republican, what else would you expect? It’s in their blood and part of their requirement in order to be part of their one big happy family Klan!

    1. What people don’t understand is that Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama were all serpent administrations, 32 consecutive years of serpents in office gutting the nation with fabricated lies and laws used by more serpents who brought in more serpents in congress, serpent judges so they could sway everything serpent for the devils legion. The democratic deep state corporate beast system antichrist network serpent legion of death. The democratic serpent left is the same serpent line who enslaved the black race. Trump is everyone’s last freedom, the Creators elect over the serpent witch child trafficking demon hag, Hillary Clinton who 32yrs of serpents in office had helped rig the 2016 election for so the democratic serpent legion could slam America with full beast system demonic tyranny. Msnbc/cnn/msm serpent brainwashing operatives brainwashing the nation with fabricated lies for full beast system takeover. Now you know where you’re at, surrounded by serpent demon people everywhere you go.

    2. @KipKemei Sambu – Because they’re trollollolling, and they get ‘paid per response’.
      Vodka isn’t free, after all… 💰🍸😏

    3. who needs them? we have his tweets. so do the intel agencies of all our enemies. their psychologists know what he’s going to do before HE does.

    1. If you weren’t brainwashed you’d realize that the way he said it wasn’t in a racist way but a way that idiots were running the country. People like you are why my black girlfriend hates black people.

  9. Remember when Reagan supported gun control because Black men were exercising their 2nd amendment rights?

    1. Biden, 2007: Obama is a clean, articulate black man. Hillary, 1994: black youth are super predators.

    2. @Kip McEwen ok so Dems and Republicans have members that said racist things, who has the support of David Duke, the KKK, and the alt right today, who said there were good people on both sides after Charlottesville? Wrap your brain around that.

  10. The Reagan Nation Airport and other things that have been named after the racist should be renamed. There should be no slack for hate filled people like him and the rest of the current day GOP.

    1. @Alexander The Great yeah kkk was like 150 years ago, I was born when Reagan got in office, peddle your false equivance elsewhere.

    2. yankees double header you’re old if he was president in your lifetime lol. Pretty much anyone born before 1990 is old now

  11. There should be a STRONG push to REMOVE Ronald Reagan’s name from the airport in Washington, DC, the medical center at UCLA, and the freeway CA-118 just to name a few!!!

    1. I bet someone from the South will try to push for this as revenge for the activists who took down all the Robert E Lee monuments.

    2. What people don’t understand is that Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama were all serpent administrations, 32 consecutive years of serpents in office gutting the nation with fabricated lies and laws used by more serpents who brought in more serpents in congress, serpent judges so they could sway everything serpent for the devils legion. The democratic deep state corporate beast system antichrist network serpent legion of death. The democratic serpent left is the same serpent line who enslaved the black race. Trump is everyone’s last freedom, the Creators elect over the serpent witch child trafficking demon hag, Hillary Clinton who 32yrs of serpents in office had helped rig the 2016 election for so the democratic serpent legion could slam America with full beast system demonic tyranny. Msnbc/cnn/msm serpent brainwashing operatives brainwashing the nation with fabricated lies for full beast system takeover. Now you know where you’re at, surrounded by serpent demon people everywhere you go.

  12. 1971 to now the racism is ongoing and openly supported by Republicans in our Congress and Presidents Reagan and Nixon and now trump the resident in the white house. Deplorable indeed. TY Chris Hayes for showing the history

  13. Are they trying to make it an excuse? since Nixon and Reagan was just as bad or worse. Shouldn’t have been an excuse then or now.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.