Margaret Hoover discusses what to expect from the new 'Firing Line'

about the previous classic kill fine line it was hosted for over three decades by conservative icon William Buckley Jr now it's Margaret's turn to firing the questions we want to show you her at work with House Speaker Paul Ryan but something that's plagued Republicans for decades now right because when you hear the term work requirement there are some Americans who hear a dog whistle there are some Americans who in their mind go back to 1980 and they hear Ronald Reagan campaigning against welfare queens it obviously shouldn't be this is just a bigger problem in rural white America as it is in any other part of the country so this is not that big guess right there from Margaret Hoover let's welcome her again and this show really was something special to so many people for such a long time big shoes to fill it big shoes to fill I am NOT William F Buckley Jr some people will breathe a sigh of relief but but look he did an extraordinary thing for our television tradition which is bring this rigorous contest of ideas to television for 33 years longest-running television host in history nobody given the credit for that it's extraordinary and that's the tradition that we're trying to do we want to bring back a really respectful exchange of ideas so few places on televisions you get to just be with one person for 30 minutes and do a deep dive on a single TV she's gonna stick to every week a real long discussion in depth that's exactly it I mean in our media climate which is so fractured a lot of people end up just going to podcasts or other places for a deep dive on a single idea and that's what we're going to return to television thanks to belaying my farewell of course he was a legendary self conservative you also come I guess from the public in royalty that great-granddaughter of President Hoover it is a legacy that and I mean the firing line legacy right I certainly understand what it's like there are a lot of people who care a lot about carrying that church forward and are curious about how I'm gonna do it and I approach legacy in history with a lot of honor because I inherited my own and I care so much about my great-grandfather's contributions whose humanitarian contributions around the world that many people don't know about and so so I get that and I want to honor that and and revive the tradition and carry it forward for new generation not just politics well enough but they had a tradition of bringing a wide range of guest want to show a little bit of that I'd like to begin by asking a Hugh Hefner dr. Timothy Leary a Ronald Reagan about remarks Richard Nixon of Muhammad Ali Jesse Jackson a James Earl Carter jr. 14th Dalai Lama Newt Gingrich Benjamin Netanyahu dr. Ron Paul Rush Limbaugh dr. Henry Kissinger Arianna Huffington and one of the things I mean you saw people there who are still alive and with us and contributing to our public policy debates I want them back on firing line and we're gonna show them with their original clip and them back in the public eye but again it wasn't just public policy people it wasn't just public officials its chefs its comedians its television stars it's anybody it was influencing our culture that can really have a rigorous exchange of ideas on television so he said a high bar 33 years 34 is what we're going for [Applause] well hey there GMA fans Robin Roberts here thanks for checking out our YouTube channel lots of great stuff here so go on click the subscribe button right over right over here to get more of awesome videos and content from GMA every day anytime we thank you for watching and we'll see you in the morning on GMA

Channel: Good Morning America

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Keywords: Margaret, Hoover, political, strategist, commentator, Firing, Line, host, pbs, gma, abc, abcnews

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Length: 3min 39sec (219 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 25 2018