at no time in his life did he hold public office. he is not a hero of foreign wars. he never had much money. and while he lived, he was reviled at least as much as he was celebrated. by his own account, he was a man frequently wracked with doubt, a man not without flaws, a man, who like most is before him, one question why he had been chosen for some arduous task, the task of freedom, the task of healing festering wounds of the nation's original sin.

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] >> thank you. i've never gotten that kind of reaction before. i'm mike gonzalez, d. p. of communications your heritage. it is my pleasure to welcome ann coulter, the author of seven "new york times" bestsellers and a new one out right now called "demonic." it is very funny.

my colleagues know a name but he won the first columns because am laughing out loud like a mad dance in my office. ann is more than funny. she's witty, clever, courageous, tackles issues that many will not. she stands up for her beliefs were others will waffle. that's because she is deep convictions. she understands conservatism. their many of us here, obviously, in the audience i want to recognize to be built. former attorney general ed meese, ronald reagan studies at the heritage foundation vice president. [cheers and applause] and one more, m. stanton evans. are you here? he hasn't made it yet. he is the author of the sharon statement. he voted to cut i think i make it. the reason i'm recognizing them is because they are conservative

icons. ann coulter is another iconic figure of conservatism. she will make remarks and then take questions from you. afterwards she will sign. i will ask that -- we may not have time for pictures, so this is signing first. afterwards, if there is time, she'll take pictures with you if there's time. [applause] >> thank you for coming. [cheers and applause] thank you. i really wanted to speak after the book signing because it turns out they are serving your and wine and the ideal audience from you right wingers a little liquor to. and i don't have prepared remarks because i just had a book come out. i've never imagine -- a look ahead when your book is coming out, who else has a though,, who will you compete with on amazon. i never imagined i would eat competing with something called

weinergate. unlike anthony weiner, you can telephone happy if i fenced behind a podium. a samuel ball had a chance to read some of my book or see one of my 8 million interviews in the last 10 days. but i'll just quickly say, "demonic" is a description of the moms. moms are always demonic and demon sir was mobbed. i described the democratic party of liberalism as a map, starting with the french revolution, a revolt of the mob. it has been that way for 200 years in the process of writing this book, i certainly understand liberals in a way never did before. i consider myself something of an expert on liberals. there are a few things that always confused me. for example, paul krugman, frank rich, jonathan alter.

they must be a start release they did well on the sat test because they all went to very good colleges and yet they seem so stupid. people in a crowd to lose some of the intelligence to matter how educated they are coming they will grasp onto conspiracies, turn their opponents into enemies. this is just as michael of mob psychology. beautifully described liberals and not in the way you can describe conservatives yet that's all i will say because you are all getting a copy tonight. i've got to take questions because then i don't need prepared remarks. [laughter] >> rate here commissary. [inaudible] [laughter] >> actually, i loved the view. i've been on four times.

we've had a great time every time since one, when they all yelled at me and i'd have to wait for a pause to get something out. that was the only time barbara walters was on the show. so by process of the lamination, i think the rest of them are lovely curls. i mean, usually interesting girls fixate on some small pointless part in my book and i feel a thing i never talk about for the next month, which gets very tedious. for the first time i've been asked about the book, which is great. it's nice to be able to talk about it. on the other hand, i'm worried that a massive catfight, my book sales will suffer. >> break there in the blue shirt. >> 's looks like your boy, chris

christie isn't running. who's next? >> i would like to say that if my boy, chris christie doesn't run, he will go from being my love to the enemy for life. i am not designing a parachute so i can type into the governor's mansion and group convince him to run. the country needs him. i think he is head and shoulders about the other candidates, who are they. it's worth noting every single republican in the debate monday night is better than john mccain. [applause] it's not that i intentionally dislike any, but running against incumbent with all mainstream media against us. christie also won the governorship in one of the most left-wing states in the union. i was shocked when he won. i would've lost bets on that. i don't think it's a guarantee that to win reelection. he'll be a loser the next you

run. or if your command line for president in 60 or spirit thirdly, we have an amazing american farm team coming up, but ted deutch nelly, if he runs for governor, he is like chris christie. he suddenly articulate, which is something for republicans because they usually can't put to some of us together. so if we get one who can talk, that would be something. you've got chris kovac, the attorney general of kansas, he runs for governor, think them. marco rubio is a fantastic senator. he can run for president. so we have all this amazing talent at not going to be a cakewalk for chris christie in six years, particularly because i will be a sworn enemy if he doesn't run this time. >> how tall are you, ann? i am 66. >> i think about pete, seven. give or take.

i do not -- [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> this should be, and we're counting on the heritage foundation. this should be a good year for the republicans in the senate. unfortunately, you know, in 2010, we have a lot of obamacare. it was the luck of the draw. even though democrats hold it fast 60% cut of 70 are held, it was about 50/50 republicans and democrats. democrats up for election might harbor boxer were in solidly

blue. we didn't have many opportunities in the election to pick up senate seats. but that changes next year. and it changes three years from now. those are two fantastic years to pick up seats in the senate for republicans. i don't know how republicans are going to blow it. it is your job to stop them. >> i just want to have the rear conservative of course, but not partisan. >> thank you for coming first of all, ann. do you think the liberals have a clue about the spiritual component to why conservatives are in those? the doughnut like our policies, but it goes beyond that, doesn't it? >> that is covered more extensively in my book, about three books back, douglas: the church of liberalism. i think that explains why you do the altamont psychology, characteristics on the left and you really don't see it among right-wingers, republicans and

we know from the polls that most republicans believe in god gave most democrats don't. want to claim they do are running for office and are lying. and if you believe in god, it's a vertical relationship. you don't have to care what people say in the crowd around you. and in fact, christians kind of like to be hated because christ that we would be, set makes us feel macho. whereas, if you don't have an outside relationship with god, then you have to care with the people around you think. that's the one "the new york times" editor in your head, listening to every expectation or hope in that jon stewart won't say anything mean about you or even i.q. no, conservatives so don't care what people around them think and that's why you think

liberals -- liberals don't believe in god, so they are faster for people around around him think. two more questions. >> what advice do you have for young conservatives on college campuses dealing with the labor mob? the >> first of all, don't go to law school. [inaudible] >> law? okay, fine. let the liberals go to law school. because unless you are going to be a scumbag trial lawyer like john edwards, you won't make that much money. to be working weekends for the rest of your life and there's a lot of great jobs out there. i just met somebody with the strangest job. but was it? i forget. i said to her, did she know what you would be doing in college? the person who designs food for tv commercials. so that it looks attract. the lighting, how you put it on the plate. there are ipod of out there

and they should all go and the media, become public-school teachers. and by the way, the pay is fantastic. last night college professors. college republicans could teach me a few tricks. if you are open republican on a college campus, you are apparently not going with the flow. and that is where you first see the pathetic mess of liberals, little apple polishers up to their professors. teacher, teacher, i found another example of homophobia in hamlet. @johnny, settle down. i pick of great tips from the college of republicans who came up with the catch an illegal alien game, which i am just bulldozer and admiration with

anti-affirmative action bake sales. i don't think i need to teach college republicans anything. but i will tell you the truth is inherently appealing and a lot of college kids don't have political belief yet. that is why i'm constantly going to speak on college campuses despite the risk of physical violence. they don't have clearly defined political belief yet. and the only conservative they're going to hear in four years of college. i've had a lot of things that could happen, but i'll just give you one. this year accused university, went to dinner with college republicans and one told me what they say at the green meeting. the green said this, the green said that. i said, what are your secret law? if you know, used to be green and college. i said which issue? you said you were the only person that made sense right after 9/11. it does make sense for kids who are just forming their opinions.

inherently appeasing. >> ms. coulter, thanks for stopping by. i'd like to ask you to comment on two quotes. one you'll know very well from page 14. as long as democrats win elections by demagogue and, dare happy to turn america into banana republic. but msn high-speed bullet train of bankruptcy coming to a democratic party refuses entitlements picosecond hokum american people want to cut spending because they know cutting spending will create a better environment for job creation, entitlement programs, tax increases. that's what the next budget process is for. we'll have plenty of opportunity to talk about that march 3rd, 2011. speaker of the house of representatives. is it safe to say that both parties have a pretty unreliable record on pursuing entitlement? >> yes, there is. by the way, if i were picking up my most choice quotes from the

book, the one social security reform would not be yet. yet and still, i mean, i said this to republican audiences. they may complain about their politicians and other chickens. well, sometimes they're not chickens. they're responding to the people and that's a great thing about the tea party movement, that you do have americans who haven't really been thinking about politics. they're busy. they have jobs. and now they are starting to notice that social security and medicare or ponzi schemes. they were set up as ponzi schemes. i don't know if y'all watch msnbc as obsessively as i do, but they're constantly denouncing the ideas of some sort of insult, like we are using the again social security. it is the definition of a ponzi scheme. incoming money comes out to current recipients. that is pretty made us plan. and you know, creators of social

security knew perfectly well they were creating a ponzi scheme. they be dead and buried before it went bankrupt. but we have to be able to educate people about that. i think the republicans, instead of proposing plans to reform social security and medicare, should do nothing but go on tv and talk about what the problems are, how it's bankrupt in 10 years, how current medicare recipients receive three times what they paid in. just keep talking about the problem and lets see what the democrats had to say. >> yeah, sure. [inaudible] >> you mean it's unfair to throw michele bachmann in the same boat with sarah palin? i think she emerged from that compares then on monday night. i mean, i think michele bachmann is magnificent.

i also think you can't win the presidency from the house of representatives. so if any viewer for minnesota, you better go back into work and i think that she can run for governor, or at least senate. [inaudible] >> thank you. you see, and a teacher orders? >> thank you, ann. >> thank you. [applause] >> please form an orderly line. ms. coulter will be inside signing books. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> thank you.

god bless you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> nice to see you again. you are such a great man. i keep seeing you at the things i don't get to talk to you. >> you've got a lot of fans here. >> you'll have to come back so we can talk sometime. nice to see you. >> nice to meet you. >> court. >> court. >> it's actually a union person.

>> a very nice young man. >> i want is for stephen and judy. >> stephen andrew? is that? >> the third one is actually mine. this one is going to be for mary kate and diane. >> you are not mary kay. >> mary kate. last time i saw you when you came. >> that was fun. are you from michigan? >> now, i just went to school there. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> could i have the cover signed? i want to display it. i'm glad you took the suggestion. it's a beautiful cover. >> yes, how about that?

>> of these taking her picture khomeini to face the camera. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. here's her copy. >> hello. [inaudible] >> and he looked familiar. excellent. is this for you? >> elizabeth. >> what are you doing now, elizabeth? >> i started college. >> great, don't go to law school. >> hi, i'm christina. >> hi, christina. >> i want to say i graduated from college in your book taught me more than any professor. thank you.

>> it's actually for my data for father's day. >> i have a lot of fans. >> okay. nice to meet you. >> hi, i'm sir. it's for father's day. he's a big fan. >> where you from? >> i'm proud maryland originally. we have a growing tea party movement, though. >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> do you want this for you?

>> yes, tom. >> i have a growing fan base in maryland. >> it's an honor. >> sinus book for sale, please. >> sinus book for sale, please. >> for who? thank you. >> hi, i'm patrick from oregon. >> from oregon? what are you doing in washington? >> my wife sat a graduation ceremony. my wife is a professor. >> i'm glad you're in town

today. when is the graduation? >> the students are graduating tomorrow. >> hello. nice seeing you. where are you from? >> medals per pound. >> highlighted event here? >> two and half years. [inaudible conversations] >> hello. >> pleasure to meet you, eric. i knew you looked familiar. >> you were debating chris mathews. this is for maytag.

[inaudible] that would be lovely if you could. >> thank you for all you do. >> thank you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

>> no, no, i talked to the last author. he's still alive. he's not gone. >> can you have a cocktail while i finish this and then we can talk? it's so good to see you. >> i saw sean hannity. he's as great as ever. i did great time in traffic listening to you. >> can't let it go. >> see you later. >> see you later. >> are you going to be doing a photograph session? i want to get just one picture. >> banks. >> thank you. is this for you?

>> it's for my parents. bob and mary ann. >> fantastic, you're a genius. otherwise there could be a site for the book. >> have a question. you speak about your mother -- [inaudible] >> paducah. i may be back there next month for a family reunion. hello, nice to meet you. nice to meet you. [inaudible conversations]

[inaudible conversations] >> very fascinating. unfortunately, my writing is like chicken scratch. even when i'm really concentrating. >> hello. nice to meet you. >> what a fantastic father's day. you want this for patrick? [inaudible conversations] >> here, i've got to get it for you. i've got a pair for you in a pair for someone. >> that's very nice. my father is the quarter i get it from.

nice to meet you. [inaudible] >> when i was stuck in traffic, you were a great distraction. this is for my father. >> i know. we have to do this before father's day. hello, nice to meet you. >> okay wait, i did not view -- [inaudible] >> i ordered the book online.

>> hello. >> nice to meet you. thank you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

3inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> thank you dream match. >> thank you. >> okay. yeah, i like him. as there is a ways to go. do you want this for you?

[inaudible conversations] >> am i supposed to write this? okay, thank you. [applause]

>> thank you. well, good morning. i've just come from meeting with the republican congressional delegation. [laughter] and dates so far has followed my plan to the letter. i met with them earlier this year. i told them i have a great idea. if you just get rid of medicare, you're going to do even better than he did last fall. so, you are sitting in a state that has a big collection in the northern part of the estate here. last night, the democrats won. i think there's only been four democrats elect there since the civil war. so, it was quite something. my suggestion to the republicans today is don't start. medicare.

the next thing they should proposes getting rid of the veterans administration. i think i will go over really big. and after that, the elimination of traffic lights. and then, kittens. get rid of kittens. just go all out and be opposed to kitty cats. they are going to do well a year from november here. alright, enough enough picking on them. you know, they've got a rough road ahead of them. and i was saying last night, it just resembles, you know, they caught this great cat back in november, but then they started writing in the opposite direction on the football field, away from their goal. and you know, it's like democrats and liberals, you know, everybody is so peace, love and understanding. we are on the field going no, no, turn around.

no, i have the ball. i'm going this way. yes, but people like their medicare. i don't care. i have the ball. so anyway, what can you do? so, i assume most of you are working in bookstores or own bookstores? the librarians are here. [cheers and applause] and teachers? great. no, i mean, of course teachers are to blame for everything, right? you know, all that money they are seeking from us. so i have a new book coming out in such timber and it is called, here comes trouble, stories of my life. it's about of about two dozen short stories, but their own

nonfiction, all from my life and i go through a number of interesting incidents and things that is happening to me before i made my first film. so this takes place all in the years leading up to roger and me and so, there is a short story about getting lost inside the capitol building at 11 years old. i parents had taken us to washington d.c. tonight that last and walked into this elevator and i didn't see the sign that said senators on the. since the doors shut and there is a man reading a paper in a post to peeper down. i've got tears in my eyes because i lost my mommy and daddy ended senator robert kennedy. and so, the story is about his effort to find my parents that day in the capitol building. there's another story.

i guess i parents effectively at home and i was 14. they said yes because i wanted to be up priest and they didn't want to get in the way of god's calling, so i went to seminary at 14 years old and so there is a story about being there at the seminary. and i of course have a lot of thoughts about the catholic church. as a recovering catholic. so there's a whole bunch of things like this. and i found myself present at a paris incident that took disseminate teen 80s, particular day was only 19 people killed in probably about 120 or so injured from bullet and grenade shrapnel. and i was just coming into the airport to change planes. so i read about what it's like to actually be present at one of

these terrorist incidents and live. so the book has a lot of these experiences and stories that are sort of maybe explained how i got to be where i got or why i ended up doing the things they did. and they are interesting and wild and some are funny and some are not so funny. but it began the book in the present and i thought maybe i would read just a little. i don't know what are time constrained our here, but do i hear a little bit of this? i have not read any of this to anybody. in fact, it is still on the pages that it was type time. country and this is a quote that begins with a quote from glenn

beck. i'm thinking about killing michael moore and i'm wondering, if i could kill him myself or would i need to hire someone to do it. no, i think i could. i think he could be looking me right in the eye. i could just be choking the life out of him. is this wrong? i stopped wearing my what would jesus do band that i've lost all sense of right and wrong now. i used to be able to say yeah, i would kill michael moore and then see a little wristband that says what would jesus do? then i realized he wouldn't kill michael moore or at least you wouldn't choking to death. and you know, well, now i'm not so sure. that's from glenn beck's radio program may 17th, 2005. i can't remember the name of the

reporter who asked the question, but i remember the moment very well. he said, are you surprised that you're still alive? there's lots of people that want you dead. he was trying to get a reaction out of me. we were standing there life on the floor of the democratic convention in 2004. his tone of voice was one of, how shall we say, hope all? i looked at him and he didn't know how to respond. i tried to make light of it. in the interview was over, i couldn't put out of my head what you just said on national television. there are those who want you dead. i can guarantee that no filmmaker or political person ever been asked that question lies on national tv. it had been a rough year for me. the threats, the assault, the man who planned to blow up my

house and now this journal has had to go and plant the seed of an idea in a few more deranged head. i sat on the floor and stared at him and he stared back. even if other reporters asking me questions, i would not take my eyes off him and then he lost it. for the first time in my life, i decided i was going to punch him right in the face. i walked back up and with dirty harry column, i said this is absolutely the most despicable thing i've ever been asked on live television. he could see what was going to happen as an asteroid a few minutes before he was done talking to this guy. sure, punk, i can wait. and then he slipped away. but there would be nowhere for him to hide. he took refuge inside the arkansas delegation, the refuge of scoundrels. but i found him and i walked right up to them. within an inch of his face, i whispered, you may make it seem

acceptable. you just told people it was okay to kill me. he tried to back away, but i blocked them in. i want you to think about your actions if anything happens to me. i don't in my family will come after you because they will. he mumbled something about his right to ask me anything you wanted and i decided it wasn't worth breaking my lifelong record of never having anyone, cert and not some weasel from cable news. save it for "meet the press." he broke loose and got away. within the year, he would become a star and fox news, where he should've been in the first place. to be fair to him, though, his question was when i'd heard before. though maybe not post quite sweet really. it is not unusual to be asked, usually by perplexed europeans, how is that you're still alive? or for fans of night to randomly come then had me and say i can't believe you're still here. and they didn't mean in the

building. why was i still here? in the first year of the war, i was told by security expert who was often used by the secret service that quote, there is no one in america other than president bush who is in more danger than you. how did this happen? i decided that i i'd brought this on myself beginning the ninth of march 23rd, 2003, 4 days prior to george w. bush had invaded iraq on a country not only not attack us, but it was in fact a past recipient of much military aid from the united states. this is an illegal, immoral, invasion, but that is not how american side. over 70% backed the war, including liberals like al franken and the 29 democratic senators who voted for the war authorization bill, including senator chuck schumer, dianne feinstein and john kerry.

plus, future maritimes editor, bill keller in the editor of the liberal magazine, "the new yorker," all supported the war. the times ran many bogus front-page stories about how saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. he later apologized for their cheerleading of this were. but the damage had been done. he had given bush the cover he needed and the ability to claim it's a liberal paper like the times says so, it must be true. it must be true. so here it was, the fourth night of a very unpopular war and my film, "bowling for columbine" is up for an oscar. i went to the ceremony, but was not allowed to talk to press on the red carpet going into the kodak theater. there was fear that someone may see some team and in wartime, we need everyone on the same ph. the actress diane lane read the

list of nominees for best documentary. the envelope was up and she announced that one. on the main floor, the actors, direct readers, writers, gave me a standing ovation. i invited my fellow documentary nominees to join me on the stage and they walked up with me and i spoke the following words: thank you -- i want to my oscar speech impersonation. thank you very much. i've invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage. they are here in solidarity with me because we like not fiction. we like nonfiction, yet we live in dictations times. we live in a time where we have vicious election results that elect a fictitious president. we live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for

fictitious reasons. whether it is the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alert, we are against this war. we are against this war, mr. bush. shame on you. shame on you, mr. bush. anytime you've got both the pope and the dixie chicks against you, your time is up. it's weird. that's the first time i've read those words outside since that night. about halfway through those remarks, all broke loose. there were boos from the upper floors and from backstage. the producer of the show ordered the orchestra to start playing to drown me out. the microphone started descending into the floor of the stage. it was pandemonium and i was whisked off. a little known facts. the first two words every

oscar-winner here's right after you win the oscar and leave the stage come from to young people that the academy has hired. they retired and former winner and they are standing in the wings to greet you. the young girl said to me, champagne? she held out a flute of champagne. the young boy next to her said breath mint? and he held out a breath mint. champagne and breath mints are the two words of oscar winners here first. but i got to hear a third. an angry stage and came up to me and screamed in my ear asshole! the ever alert security backstage saw the rubble that was about to break out and they quickly took me by the arm and moved me to a safer place. i was shaken but i battled and due to the overwhelming negative

rejection of my speech come inside of this been a moment of a lifetime, i was convinced i'd let everyone down. my fans, those against the war, the oscar organization, my crew, my wife, my tab in the audience, anyone who meant anything to me. i had ruined their night. and i suddenly sunk into a pit of despair. an hour later we walked into the governors ball. the police to immediately silent and people stepped away from me for fear that their picture would be taken. i stood there along with my wife at the entrance, shunned by the hollywood establishment. only one person. to approach me. her name is sherry lamb being, the head at the time of paramount studios. she saw what was going on and so she walked up the center aisle in front of everyone to where i stood. my shoulders hunched over. my head bowed. she came right up to me and gave me at the kiss on the cheek.

thank you she said. it hurts now. someday you'll be proved right. i'm so proud of you. and then she kissed me again. that was pretty much it for the name. we sat quietly at our table and ate our roast beef. we decided to skip the party and went back to the hotel. i couldn't sleep, so he turned on the tv. for the next hour i watched a local l.a. tv station to their oscar post game shows. as i flipped between the tiles, i realize i listen to one commentator after another question my sanity, criticized my speech and said say it over and over in a sense, i don't know what got into them, but i can't see them having an easy time getting another movie made in this town. talk about career suicide. after an hour of this, i had

this sick feeling the need i believed they were right. i got to listen to more booze over the next 24 hours, walk into the hotel, going to the airport. it was like i had cut the russians, through the olympics. he took up at least a dozen rows on the plane. meanwhile back in her home in michigan, the local beautification committee had done three truckloads of horse manure in our driveway, waist high so we wouldn't be able to enter our property. a property, which by the way was nicely redecorated with a dozen or so times l2 or trees. get out. move to cuba. scum, traitor, leave now or else. it was time to call in the navy seals. and then i'm just going to skip to the end. i hired this group are ex-navy seals and army rangers and they became a security.

i go through this chat or an echo to various incidents of people assaulting me, trying to assault me and finally somebody attempting or planning to blow up my house. and the seals basically saved me and kept me alive. i am the book describe these incidents really for the first time because you're not supposed to talk about these things in public. so here's the end that chapter. one night in adventure of florida, this is after basically -- i started training with the navy seals and lifting weights and joaquin, then running with them. and they showed me all these various things, how they can take you out with a piece of dental floss.

and things you probably shouldn't know, but anyway, now i was in condition. one night in ventura, florida, may nubus sells a lot with a friend, walking into immodesty movie. a young guy in his 30s passed amy. as he did, he had the sense to say, shithead. i walked in turned towards him. hey you, get back here. the person i was with said mike, let it go. letting it go was what i used to do and that didn't really hope they heed her, it? backup walking. hey, don't run away from me i shouted louder. don't be a chicken. come back here and face me. chicken is a dish not well served with a gender with testosterone for their fluid. he halted and turned and headed back towards me. as he got five free for me, said

the following. the gentlest voice i could muster. hey, why would you say such a thing to me? because i know who you are and you are a shithead. there you go again, using that word. you don't have the foggiest idea of who i am or what i'm about. you haven't even seen my movies. >> i don't need to come from and they are suspected. pirating other commie steffi reddy put out there. okay dude, that's not fair. you can't judgment based on what someone else told you about me. you look like a guy who makes up his own mind. please watch one of my movies are a certified come you may not agree with all the politics, but i can guarantee you you'll instantly know i have a deep love for this country and you will see that i have a heart, that i care for people and i promise that you'll laugh a few times during the film.

if you still want to call me after that, then fine. i don't think he will. he calmed down and we talked for another five minutes. i listen to his complaints about the world and told them that we probably have more in common than not. he relaxed even more and eventually i got a smile out of him. finally i said we had to go where it's going to miss my movie. hey man he said holding out his hand. i'm sorry i called you that name. you're right. i don't know you. this site you stopped and talked to me after i said that, well, maybe i should. please accept my apology. i did and we shook hands. they've taken a risk for sure, but i'd had enough of this. there would be no more disrespect and are threatening me and that was the attitude that made me safe or as safe as one can be in this world. from now on if you mess with me, there will be consequences. i may make you watch one of my movies. last night a few weeks later, i

was back on the tonight show for the first time in quite a while. when i was over, i was leaving the stage and the guy who was operating the blue microphone approached me. you probably don't remember me he said nervously. i never thought i could see you again or get the chance to talk to you one more time. i can't believe i get to do this. do what i thought. i braced myself for the men's soon-to-be broken hand. i never thought i'd get this chance to apologize to you he said as tears started coming in his eyes. and now here you aren't i get to say this. i was the guy who ruined her oscar night. i am the guy who yelled into your gear right after you came up stage. he tried to compose themselves. i thought you were attacking the president, but you are right. he did lie to us. and i've had to carry this with me now all these years.

and that i did that to you under a big night, i'm so sorry. i now he was shaking pretty bad and i could think of to do was reach out to give them a huge head. it's okay, man. i accept your apology. but you don't need to apologize to me. he did nothing wrong. what did you do? you believe your president. you are supposed to believe the president. if we can't expect that is just a minimum from whoever is in office, then we are doomed. well, he said relieved, thank you for understanding. understanding i said, this is not about understanding. i've told this story for years about the first two words i hear. and then i got to your second word. don't take that story from me. he laughed and i laughed. there are many good stories like that.

of course there were. i had a ton of them and i've been wanting to tell the stories for a long time, but they don't begin here in burbank. burbank is the end. the beginning began before i had even begun and it goes into the next. [applause] so, thank you. that was really cool. i got to do this for the first time. they said we have time, a couple of minutes for a couple questions if anyone would like to ask me anything. you're welcome to do that. yes, sir, in the front row. [inaudible]

>> the question is can i still do the same things? i can do the same movies, but is sending surrogates to do an interview with somebody that will talk to me. and then i said in that truck listening. i'll repeat the question that way so that i can at least conduct the interview because you're right. some people will not talk to me now. but i found ways to get around. yes, sir. >> in "bowling for columbine," you talked about things and the nra. >> did i what? [inaudible] >> and i still nra member? i had a lifetime membership to the nra and they had a special vote to excommunicate me.

so i don't think i'm a member any longer. but i still have the nice leather jacket they sent me. yes, sir and the i/o. [inaudible] >> well, you know, the republicans are -- they are very good at organizing and in some ways they are smarter because they know how to get the job done and they took over the statehouses and governorships in november. and they didn't do it just so they could put it on my resume. they came in with a plan and the plan was to go after public employees, teachers, take away people's pensions, it better. i think they've shot themselves in the foot and i think senators in wisconsin i hope will be recalled. they got a taste of it last

night. .. [applause] >> i think that you are applauding the great idea but that won't even get us over to tenth ave. why don't the democrats do this stuff? why? there is a simple answer which

is the same people and then there's the weird answer, they just don't have -- they are missing the backbone and for the life of me i don't understand the other side would never believe this way we don't want to hold it in the senate so let's not do that to them right now. >> i like the fact that we are the understanding group but for crying out loud we are going to lose this country if we don't stand up and stand up against this madness. yes, ma'am. >> [inaudible] >> why? i don't know. that's a good question. i don't know. i just did that in the morning and i don't know.

i'm a citizen of this country. it's redundant to say that i've never called myself an activist because i think if you say that you are a citizen of democracy it should imply that you are active and the democracy doesn't exist unless your active so i never really view myself that way. yes, in the middle. >> i was just a guy from flint with a high school education, didn't know anybody. one. don't despair and realize that you're going to be a lot alone for a lot of this and you may have to put up with -- i told

the story of a guy in fort lauderdale coming out of a starbucks in you can just see in his head and his face turns red and purple and he takes the lid off the top and throws it in my face. but because i had these navy seal with me and he didn't have time to stop the guy said he put his face in front of mine and says he took a hit for me so they handcuffed him and called the police. i don't want to encourage anybody to have to deal with all of that. because, you know, not pleasant. yes, ma'am.

>> [inaudible] >> she's referring to my film, "sicko" and what has happened -- well, we got the first half of it passed. i hope it's just the first. we need a single-payer universal health care for everyone. [applause] we don't need a less secure we need more. medicare for all. the countries that have medicare for all spending and spend half of what we spend on health care. that is with free health care. if we got the american mind working that the government is going to pay for this it's going to break the budget. no, it's actually going to save us money. and people will not put off going to the bathroom and it doesn't cost as much later.

people are not, even with insurance, not going to the doctor even to pay the deductible or the co-payment the deductible and copay and insurance they look at other countries like we are crazy. i have health insurance for myself and there is no deductible. i talk to the insurance company and they are not exactly my best friend or what to do favors. what would it cost, shares the 2,000 the deductible or the 1,000 deductible, what would it cost for no deductible? noeth deductible? i never get asked that. he says $17 a month per employee. i said you've got to be shitting me. $17 per employee i can give them no deductible?

yeah. i'm like a man this is crazy that we have a system someday they give up their free health care card in exchange for this country they would never do it no matter all the money if the system was this set there's one, two, three, four years longer than we do. japan is even more. time for two more? who has the last one? [laughter] >> [inaudible] >> i don't even know what that

means. [inaudible] it's too early in the morning. [laughter] [inaudible] >> what about? it's about -- [laughter] it should be out sometime in the end of next year. [applause] thank you very much. [applause]

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up next booktv attended the book's launch party for muzzled by juan williams. the fox news political analyst signed books and interacted with guests at the private lounge in washington, d.c..

>> juan williams, nice to see things for coming. i really appreciate. very nice of you. thank you. your dad is helping me out big time. it's a tv camera. >> will that be on tv? >> it will eventually be on c-span. >> future president of the united states. >> you should write [inaudible] there's nothing wrong with being president. and you get your own bowling alley? >> is that true? >> you can write congressmen. he is a big fan. >> i like him a lot.

>> what shall i say to make it special for the congressman? >> like something he cares about >> at one who refuses to be silent on issues we care about, something like that. that was terrific. a man who refuses. >> [inaudible conversations] >> this is michael rayhill from politics and prose, which is washington's hometown bookstores, and pretty much every major author that comes through washington stops at politics and prose, and if they are lucky to have the opportunity to give a

presentation and talk about their book and i have done to books that politics and prose. i did on is on the prize, and i did a biography of sir good martial american revolutionary. and we are a blessed city in the sense that so many are losing independent bookstores in fact they are losing even big box books stores but politics and prose recently purchased by again hometown people and it's here and writing and we are blessed. thank you very much. >> look forward to seeing you all here. >> thanks for coming, michael. >> thank you. >> how are you? >> how are you? >> here is a man that has a new book coming out, secrets about the fbi. when does the book come out? >> a week after yours. >> a net two weeks. >> this is a sure bestseller and has all the secrets you ever want to learn about what truly happens inside the fbi to but i

can't even tell you, his sources could be mad at me and i don't want him to be mad at me. >> your book is a knockout [inaudible conversations] i asked him is he up for comment -- >> i want to hear what they said. >> they said we are not sure which party they are referring to what our party is sponsored which could be a broad range of things. >> i guess they are so self-conscious but i didn't even hit them on that.

[inaudible] >> howarth you? do you know ron kessler? for politics and journalism. [inaudible] he's also one of the smartest people. but anyway, he's a true investigative journalist. he is the real deal. a lot of people in this town pretend that they are really investigative -- she is the real deal. [laughter] >> [inaudible] on "muzzled" right here.

>> he want me to sign the page? >> [inaudible conversations] >> as a libertarian i feel muzzled all the time about the conventional wisdom in this city

>> [inaudible conversations] >> thank you for taking the time. i can't even get on the schedule. he tells me about the bible study and the exercise and he tells me that he has really -- >> one time we were on the set and he said he met a movie star and you know what it's like to live with a beautiful woman, how demanding, how high maintenance -- >> knott hi maintenance, but -- >> [inaudible] you weren't there, you were not there. >> on the set at the convention and i said -- everybody was talking about how beautiful she

looked and [inaudible] i've often told that story. >> it's a good thing that you were not pulling her leg. thank you for coming >> i'm excited to read your book. >> thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> thanks. >> thank you for helping me, helping me through the struggle. >> virginia, how are you? >> i'm good.

thank you. >> keeping up with the old man? >> yes. he's still keeping up with us. i have a grand kid. [inaudible] >> that's true. >> my daughter lived in san francisco, and we finally persuaded her to move back to d.c. so next month our grandson is here. >> terrific. when it was she last here? >> she's been in san francisco for four years and had the baby in san francisco. >> good. she deserves a baby. >> you think? [laughter] i'm sure going to love him. what should i say to make this special for virginia? >> make it all about her, not about me. >> okay but tell me what should i say? >> you can say whose father is proud of her and [inaudible]

>> wow. >> thank you. malae have it in writing. >> how are you complex thank you very much for coming. we can talk about the draft another time. >> we may have a lot else to talk about. >> i didn't think the nfl would get back together. it's a night out for you guys. >> yeah. [laughter] >> normally they do have dancing. but its lead. because this place is not a disco. it's like what they call a lounge for corporate people bringing visitors to come have a drink, and then are now 10:00 the music starts to pick up and then by 11:00 people start moving and then by midnight the whole place is flooded with younger people. one night we came in here and they had ken and barbie night and people were dressed up like

ken and barbie. it was unbelievable. it's like what you call that, marty or rock or a masquerade ball? it was great. how are you? thanks for coming. you are a sweetheart. let me sign this for you. >> one is for the stepfather. >> what is his name? >> herschel. >> lastname? >> wisebram. >> does he like books? >> he loves books. he's a journalist. he's retired now that he has a radio station and so for years he has been the agitator in the town, but the one who stopped at every stop sign hit an

editorial. >> the only republican in the family. >> he still has a radio show actually. >> do you know the name of the radio show or the radio station? >> hw at large. >> hw at large? >> yes. >> big fan. thank you. thank you. >> who is this for? >> for us.

>> amanda and what bob. we were so sorry about everything that happened. [inaudible] >> we've always agreed with everything that you've said. [inaudible] >> i know, exactly. >> [inaudible] >> not a lot, but i mean, you know, both parties are different now. [inaudible conversations] >> thank you for doing this.

this is great of you to do. >> it depends. seven or eight. [laughter] >> wait a second. with a second. if this book is about good journalism and you want to know good journalism, bret baier, my man. [inaudible conversations] >> how are you have? >> i like that tie. [inaudible] who they had never seen any western gifts. a lot about the economy in china. >> [inaudible] that is why you were there this time?

>> face the commander in everywhere. anyway, doing good. >> we have to have lunch. thank you. >> how was it going? >> i'm all right. this is the poet. nice to meet you. he follows you down here and then he says you are writing poetry. what does he say to his mom? because when i was a philosophy major my mom would say what kind of job as a philosophy major have? >> my mother says i'm glad you're doing something [inaudible] >> by the way, he's terrific.

it made the audio book work. [inaudible] >> made it work to? this is the editor [inaudible conversations] [laughter] >> we were supposed to meet you at an event. [inaudible conversations] >> i didn't know any of these connections.

[inaudible conversations] they were through but he didn't know at the time! [laughter] coo is this for? >> for the kids, danny and alexa. >> a-l-e-x-a. [inaudible conversations]

>> how are you? you are very kind to say that. >> your son is so adorable [inaudible] at my age beautiful women say your son looks great. [laughter] >> kurson looks fantastic. >> thank you. >> congratulations. >> and again, thank you both. [inaudible] >> first of all they can't believe that i know him. that's fantastic.

>> anyway, -- [inaudible conversations] >> i felt so beat up. >> you were beat up, it's true. >> should i write you first? i will put joann first. >> now is the a capital? >> yes it is, thank you. >> this is a nice place. >> [inaudible conversations]

i've never even then in your firm. >> thank you. [inaudible conversations] and you know each other? all of the connections. >> we sat together at a meeting. >> you guys know each other way before we did. [laughter] >> congratulations. >> thank you.

i appreciate it. >> enough is enough. still a player. [inaudible conversations] >> i will sign the book while you do that. in all [inaudible conversations] [laughter] >> do you go by clifford or if cliff? >> cliff. stannic this man is the gold

standard. >> we just want more air time during the -- [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] >> congratulations. we are so excited for you. >> a-i-n-e.

>> i will tell you writing a book -- [inaudible] >> there you go. with thank you. >> thank you. >> [inaudible conversations]

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible] >> thank you. it's an honor to host this event tonight to our good friend and colleague juan williams. i travel the country is talking to different groups and i get to questions most often: one ase

[inaudible] [laughter] and number two is what is juan williams really liked? and i said that he's a fantastic guy. this guy, a lot of people say listen, she got a good deal. everything worked out. it was a perfect. he wasn't a happy camper. it was a tough thing to go through and there was a lot of pain involved. so i started to character juan williams and i will tell you i'm really proud of the way that you handled it. [applause] sometimes it gets even, sometimes interesting exchanges but no matter the ideology, your discussion that happens. i assembled a panel here.

>> will get this. [laughter] >> so, we had this thing called the lightning round and it's supposed to be very quick. go down the panel on a certain topic and its supposed to be quick. sometimes it's not that quick. so i thought i'd start on the lightning round about juan williams with charles kuralt -- and charles krauthammer. >> every time i give a speech i always start by saying

[inaudible] to be anywhere where one williams can't interrupt me. [laughter] [applause] >> and i make faces at you, too. >> the other thing is he has been such a good friend over the years. to say something i've been preparing for years to say on the air but life been holding back and now i'm going to give it away i'm going to say so much error, so little time. [laughter] [applause] have been waiting half a decade. the one thing i do want to say through all the years even before we ended up together on fox i deeply admire him.

he has written and said and spoken things that are not popular in many works and he's done an amazing courage and a lack of future and also [inaudible] [laughter] i want to congratulate you on the books in your friendship and say what an extraordinary man you are. >> thank you. [applause] >> this is a lightning round. on the panel whenever upon is

running short on a stick my our mouth like this and that is the signal that we have 30 seconds left to wrap up quickly and when i grab really hard that's 15 seconds. when i met leaning and that's hey let's go we have to hit commercial the producer is in my either. juan williams. >> i will be fairly short. [inaudible] [laughter] i also want to take just a second and congratulate juan for the book and the tremendous accomplishment. i think for the knows the story behind what has happened here that he unfolds in this narrative and it is truly an exceptional story. and again, just having spent time at about a three hour dinner in new york city nearing the story as it was unfolding,

you know, it's some attachment and think it is a story and an interesting piece of what has happened here but at the time it was an extremely difficult thing i think for juan, and for him to continue to show up on the panel every night and do the job that he does so well i think is truly the kind of guy that he is. i would say one thing very briefly. the one time i actually met juan is when we were doing a special together and i don't know if it was the state of the union or something but we had some times we had a lunch together that they come and it was about a three hour lunch and we spent the entire time talking and some surface issues to deep personal family issues and philosophy of life issues and the things that impressed me the most why she is so effective as what he does is

he is a listener and he is deeply interested the entire time and was more interested in what i was singing them he was and what he was offering me, and i think that is the reason he's a remarkable great reporter and i don't think that there is any question about that. [applause] >> a quick thanks and then the microphone over to juan. juan has an emmy, did you know that? as mentioned, i rise on the prize, for thurgood marshall, restored by faith, reformers in america, dividend movements from black america and we can do about it his governor washington spectacularly. we are pleased to have you on

our team, and i will tell you on the panel you will never be muzzled. [laughter] [applause] >> thanks to you and amy for putting this on. we really appreciated and we are always in your debt for being such a good friend and to charles and steve, i've worked at "the washington post," if worked at cnn, if i've worked at npr, i've worked at the hilt. these guys are the best and i am truly grateful to have you as my colleague so thank you. i wanted to also say thank you to ed rogers, to shannon and sheldon who are here tonight and to hugo gordon from the hill who is here tonight. you know, steve touched on this

briefly. there was a momentum back then when i thought that my career was over and a career that had taken many years to build going on fast, and today many people felt a we are going to a book signing but you are really here for a celebration. i don't know if the of celebrations at the end of those survivors tv shows that this is what it feels like to me. i got my head back above, standing and you can't get to that point without people who care about you, people who love you and people who take usia and told you when you are wrong and how to deal with the situation. and so many of you in the room tonight are those people for me, my friends and especially those of you that our professional journalists, you know how to use our profession is and how things go up and down and ratings, editors, relationships, you never know. so, tonight i just want to tell

you this is a celebration for me, a celebration of love. i want to sprigg thanks to my friends and families, my son wife. you know, you guys are the best. you have stood by me through the storm. used in the light by my side. thank god. [applause] [inaudible conversations] talking with a producer --

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my back hurts and i do the dishes. >> [inaudible conversations] vara at the house today that we were touring. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

>> that's pretty good. this is paul and amy? [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> how old are you? >> 17.

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> thanks for coming over. >> you're welcome. >> it's nice to meet you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

[inaudible conversations] >> what a nice evening. >> i'm glad that you made it. [inaudible conversations]

>> he was like i didn't even know you were going to go. i will bring it back. >> show him this -- show him this, she will get a kick out of it. >> thank you very much. >> i thought that you were out of town? >> it's tomorrow that we go out of town. >> i want my wife to come around here and get a picture. i want this to go on my facebook. [laughter] >> [inaudible conversations]

>> get him while he's signings a you know you get a good picture. [inaudible conversations] >> ahead of your time estimate late 80's, i is on the prize. the biography in the late nineties and then they left with the early. they got a lot of nonsense about that. [inaudible conversations]

>> c-span is the real deal. >> one for me and one for her is that possible? >> why carolina. >> you find out who your friends are. >> you sure do. >> thank you for doing this. appreciate it.

>> i have someone here that i would like to introduce to you. >> these are the student officers here in d.c. [inaudible] secure from where in new jersey? >> no art new jersey. >> i was born in new jersey. >> in the state of ohio.

about 70 miles from columbus. >> one of my kids went to kenya and they came back from toledo not that long ago doing a piece on the union in the future evaluation. i'm from littlefield new jersey right along the shore. >> are you convinced you're going to be teaching? >> yes. >> why? >> ipad important teachers in my life [inaudible] >> you know you're smart, you're going to be able to make a lot more money. you know that? >> for me it's not about the money. >> welcome you know [inaudible] schools have to change. how about you?

>> quality education and being a teacher is something -- >> you have family? >> [inaudible] >> is your family in education? what do your parents say? >> they know i have a plan laid out. >> and where did you go to high school? >> you are a student? >> jr.? where are you going? [inaudible] >> the college of new jersey. >> [inaudible] ze ohio state university? [laughter] so you don't have to decide for a while. well, that's really cool. they say the teachers are

changing and i was just talking to a guy that teaches in maryland and they want to become an education major until after your sophomore year and you don't just stay in the university you go to the school and that's important now. in other countries, in the south korea, teachers' training the first year made watching and doing to see if they really have what it takes. [inaudible] >> i will point you out when i

say something. >> thank you. >> i guess i never got an answer. [inaudible] linda and rene kuhl and i guess it's something i've got to do. [inaudible conversations]

>> congratulations. >> [inaudible] >> well, i hope so. i said read this and they say i don't understand. that's the thing. it makes good reading. >> in my riding days -- writing days the kids [inaudible]

>> i've got some stories in there. >> thank you for all that you are doing. really appreciate it. >> was it okay? >> very much. it's not been spoken enough, especially in our state. >> come on, really? >> minnesota, yes, we were 38 in 2003 and now we are 49 to to if you are ever there come and see us. it's not good. 89% of the cross rate [inaudible] your book helps. you help. thank you. i appreciate it. >> congratulations on your book. >> thank you.

>> reading what you write from time to time on the subject and applauding every time. >> thank you. you're still making waves and still in trouble though. >> no kidding.

[inaudible] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [applause] >> so, my role is to -- someone

you all know, and he will say some things that i think will tell the story about the tremendous contribution, passion, the impact that he has had over the years, but before. [inaudible] >> regular visit with him and his staff to see the kind of incredible journalistic standards and qualities they bring to every single task they set out to do. i also want to tell you, i thought i knew everything -- but i read the book and realized, i didn't know this. and this book, like many of his video pieces, really thought-provoking. even though i know most of you in this room are experts in education, i think you'll find some of his background information, and also some of

this questions and the way he presents the context, really very informative and very thought-provoking. so i encourage you. buy a lot of books and send them to your friends or give them to your colleagues at work, because -- [inaudible conversations] >> help fun important work. so, with that, i'm sure that if jim lehrer could have been here tonight, a long-time colleague and partner, he would have done so but he did the next best thing, which is create this video. >> good evening. i'm jim lehrer.

in the news this evening, john merrow, our education correspondent, has written a book, "the influence of teachers." i believe john is the leading education journalist in america. he should be. he has been at it for a long time. he is the only reporter to have interviewed every secretary of education. he has learned how to get through doors that are closed to others. >> the bottom line is i don't believe you are going to be the leader who is going to take this school in the direction we need it to go on and have the highest expectations for the kid. i'm terminating your principleship now. >> in the late 1980s, he talked his way inside the college admissions process, a first for any reporter. >> english, a b in statistics, b-minus french language, and i

don't see that as a very strong record. i think they know. >> the most difficult thing is comes in the office and says, why did you do this to me? and they begin to cry. >> john can be confrontational, as he was with this union leader in philadelphia. >> you're asking to evaluate a teacher on the performance of the student. >> yes or no. >> no, you cannot. >> you cannot evaluate a teacher on the performance of the students. >> he was the first to expose the supposedly nonprofit organization for children with add was secretly receiving money from the makers of ritalin. >> don't see that as a conflict of interest, taking money from the drug company? >> we see it as a responsibility of the drug company to give us that money. >> he also knows how to hang back. and let the story reveal itself. >> the next word will be

strenuous. strenuous is spelled s-t-r-e-n-o--s. screenous. >> that's not how strenuous is spelled. but his students might never know it. >> after all these years, john is still at it because there are stories to be told and because he is having fun. >> i had a date to keep at my office in a part of town that had seen better days. i've seen better days, too. spent my whole life investigating schools, looking for the best, exposing the worst. this is my story. >> mr. merrow, i presume? school sleuth? >> the influence of teachers is a good book. and an important one.

i'm happy to share our support. [applause] >> john, you would now be in conversations with jim, but even more special, and we should all be grateful for that kind of quality journalism. i now understand at least in part why they're colleagues. john is informed about education and a person who understands the content of what it takes to educate. too many people in journalism today don't understand the evens of the issue so we don't get the full picture. josh kaufman is a lawyer that works on computers on the other side of the world, and he such

knowledge and interest in this. he work for ten years, has been involved with the arts and entertainment world, and he brings real substance and real content to his work, so, josh, we welcome you on behalf of the institute to our party. [applause] >> it's a real pleasure. i have -- for about 30 years i helped john -- [inaudible] >> been on the board of learning matters since its inception. my contributions are generally

entertainment side of the business. i was so impressed with john over the years, a lot of people in the -- the quality of what learning matters presents, has presented over -- for 30 years now in one of the most amazing things. you'll see a piece in learning matters, and it is balanced, it is unlike today, where everything has an agenda. everything is shrill. both side get an opportunity to say their piece in their own words, their own manner. john doesn't shy away from controversy. everybody is there. everybody gets the say. and i'm talking quality. won pea -- peabodyways.

nothing on tv. nobody knows the industry better than john, and just presents it. whatever the issue is, community colleges, california, school superintendents -- talk about great schools. all the obvious things are wrong. [inaudible] >> that in-depth look, and been there for years, and all -- just goes to learning matters. 100% of the royalties. this is not a book to lend to your friends. this is a book to buy.

contact tom and buy it. do not lend. the money goes to learning matters. so that being said, it's my incredible pleasure to present my good fiend -- friend and colleague, john merrow. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you very much, josh. on behalf of learning matters, a mall and energetic production company, i am -- i express all our gratitude to you folks for being here. one thing, just a quick word about the three folks you just heard from. marty blank you know as community school, president of the institute for educational leadership, and he's a big deal. but when he goes home, he's not

that big a deal. his wife, helen blank, is a powerhouse. their daughter, mollie is an up and coming and already excellent filmmaker. so it's like the try tech attempt marty, you're a lucky man and a special friend. josh kaufman has been a personal friend and our attorney for 30 years, a founding member of the board. he has gotten me out of trouble more than once, but i think more importantly, he has kept me from getting into trouble, which is what is actually more important. the most recent one was david guggenheim when he stole footage for the disgraceful documentary waiting for superman. i hope we'll be friends for another 30 years.

you look like you'll make it. i don't know if i will. but sandra is a leader for learning matters and has steered us through incredibly tough time. she took over as chair when our founding chair -- sorry -- lost a battle with cancer, and then, of course, she inherited that job just as the worst recession since the depression hit, and we're not through that part yet, but, sandy, you have been just terrific. i just want to say a couple words about the book, which i hope you will enjoy. first, strenuous. that came from a documentary about a teacher shortage, and we were not trying to embarrass that young man. if you watch the whole documentary, you discover he is a junior high phys-ed teacher ae

is told by his principal, he has to teach high school english and high school math. you may have noticed the students. and that's too common a story. georgia at the time hat a loophole that allowed a teacher to teach up to 49% of stuff that he or she had never stud yesterday. only went to 50% you were actually outfield of your field. they since -- it's a disgrace, and we probably should frost that guy's face because he is a nice young man that didn't deserve -- he was put in a position he could not succeed. and teachers generally have an attitude, put me in, coach. for whatever reason. and we would have lost his job, but it's a statement how we treat teachers teachers and howt

the neediest of our kids. i wrote this book as this war was heating up, this ongoing war , fighting over tenure, seniority, merit pay and so on. in the book i talk about two camps. there are -- there's one camp which says, it's never defining the problem, what's education's problem, and one camp says the problem is people. we just need better people. we can just have better people, everything would be solved. that side has a fire power. it has waiting for superman. it has the lottery, oprah, education nation, which is a quasi-journalistic enter excise on nbc which is heavily weighted toward charter schools and has venture capitalist and hedge fund guys supporting it. and on the other side, diane

roberts with a megaphone, and the teacher unions and a few other people, but it's an unfair fight. so, the other side is saying, no, it's not a matter of better people. it's matter of making teaching a better job. we need to make teaching a better job. now, there's some data that says that is in fact the problem. we lose 40% of teachers in the first five years. 40%. no other profession you can dream of has that rate of churn. and it matters because this is a country with 311 bill people and 3.2 million people. one out of every 100 americans is a public school teacher. if you add up all the accountans the lawyers and doctors, put all

them together, we have more teachers than all those people put together. it really does matter. there's a huge amount of churn going on in the profession. in 1987, the modal -- anybody remember mode -- the most common -- in 1987, the most modal for years of experience was 15 years. more teachers who have been teaching 15 years than any other, 14 year 12 year et cetera, et cetera. what do you think the mode is now, 2007 data? somebody said it. more first-year teachers than at any other time. and also a huge opportunity under -- there are astounding things going on in education, but if you think the job is to make teaching a better job, the problem there is that there's a

trade union definition of better job. it is how late can you get there in the morning, how soon can you leave after 3:00, how many days in advance does the principal have to ask you for permission to watch you teach? it's a very narrow trade union definition that unions negotiated and school boards agreed to so you can't just blame unions because some school board signed this silly contract. so, better job, better people battle is raging. this is the last war. this war is irrelevant. absolutely irrelevant to our children. how many in this room are over the age of 27? [laughter] >> yeah. so am i. if you're over the age of 27, you went to school because that's where they kept the knowledge.

think about it. the knowledge was in the textbooks. it was in the the inencyclopedi. that's not true today. now information is everywhere. our schools are an answer factory, regurgitation education, and we should teach them how to formulate a question. how to turn information into a knowledge. somebody said what's the difference between information and knowledge? information is knowing that the tomato is a fruit. knowledge is knowing that you don't put it into a fruit salad. [laughter] >> so, we should be helping our kid formulate questions. how do you know that? how do you separate the wheat from the chaff. and we want them to choose wheat, so of course we teach them. there's three reasons if you're

over 27, three reasons you went to school, one, because that's where they kept the knowledge. the second was for socialization. that's learning to get along together. there's a knack to that today. right? i say it lightly but in fact there is. our kids are like pen pals on steroids. they're socializing with a whole bunch of people she thinks are 14. they might be a 40-year-old congressman. [laughter] >> so, we have to teach our kids about the power of this technology and the power to abuse this technology, sexting and all that sort of stuff. they have to be literate. the third reason we went to school, still -- and that's custodial care. we still need school, a place to send our kids, our

grandchildren, keep them safe, off the streets. but if education -- if the education that's provided is merely this regurgitation education, then it's not quite meaningless but close. school is in fact a dangerous place because children are smart. they have high energy. and if it's not used purposefully and positively, it will be used negatively -- i guarantee you, and you can see it. you heard of cyberbullying? that's really just child abuse by children. you want to call it what it is. and so the stakes are really high at this point. the challenge is to transform -- the schools aren't going to go away. charter schools are not the answer. wonderful as many of them are. 5% of our kids,

home-schooling -- our children are going to go to public school so we need schools that become -- they're places where children learn to ask questions. learn there's no question to be afraid of. learn to ask why? how do you know that? how do you know that you know that? inquiry. project-based learning, it means turning around so we don't put teachers in the position of that poor young man. it means ways to engage kids and get -- to get rid of these answer factories and i hope you'll read the book. there's some nance there it's absolutely vital that there be a force to counter this attack that's going on, as if the problem is just the people. i firmly believe that if you make it -- teaching a better job, so that the men and women who went into teaching for all

the right teaching -- we'll find we have a whole lot better people. we just need to redefine what we're doing in a transformative way, and happy you'll read the book. in any case, thank you much for being here. so let's party. [applause] >> dr. martin luther king, jr. was not a president of the united states. at no final in this life did he hold public office. not a hero of foreign wars. never had much money. and while he lived, he was reviled, at least as much as he was celebrated. by his own account, he was man frequently racked with doubt, a month not without flaws. a man who, like moses before

him, more than once, questioned why he had been chosen for so arduous a task. the task of leading a people to freedom. a task of healing wounds of a nation's original sin. >> watch this entire event, the groundbreaking of the martin luther king, jr. memorial at the c-span video library, and now, nearly five laters, the memorial will be dedicated in washington, dc this sunday, live on c-span. during the week we'll have other events surrounding the dedication on the c-span networks. >> next, booktv attended a book party for "reawakening virtues" the book party was held in washington, dc. >> booktv is at the washington, dc home of marty and

grace bender, where a book party for author and columnist, armstrong williams, is being held. mr. williams' latest book is called "reawakening virtues, restoring what makes america great." armstrong williams, why did you write this book? >> you know, many people remember back in 2000, and "no child left behind," when i was almost left behind, financially, emotionally, relationship-wise, and i'll never forget a friend of mine from new york, mr. doley, an ambassador, called me on the phone, and people were saying i would be no more than a footnote, no one would every see my face on television again or carry my column and i was doomed. i accepted responsibility for the bad judgment. but just because we use bad judgment and accept

responsibility for it, you still have a price to pay. you pay a price when you do things that goes against the virtue and the values upon which you were reared, and so from 2004 to about 2008, i was in the desert, and i was wondering if i would ever have my way of life back again, ever be a media presence again, and then i realized, there's one particular morning i was lying in bed, and a light just flickered, and after four years i had reawakened, and something just said, reawake your virtues and values. just as clear as i'm standing here talking to you. something said, go back to the roots, go back to the beginning. so i had to reawaken the value of truth and honest and integrity. i had to reawaken the values of physiology, get back to the germ, taking care of my health, making sure i was in shape.

but more importantly, i had to reawaken the values of whether i wanted to be a journalist, or whether i wanted to be hack for the republican party, and i decided that not only did i want to return to journalism but my voice could return as a voice of integrity. i realized i wasn't doing it for anybody else. it wasn't about anybody else. it was about me. about my truth and my getting grounded again. so i started back going to church. being alone with god, getting back to the kinds of things my parents taught me about honesty, about trying to be good, and sometimes being good, we say these things about being good but it's not enough just talking about being good. it because of this i decided i needed to reawaken the virtues

of my life. and things started coming around, and i also realized that things were not as bad as i thought they were, and even though my legal fees, even though i lost 80% of my business, i managed my business well, i managed my money well. i did not spend frivolously. bud but i did not have much overhead and debt, and the i had people who wanted to help me out financially, said, no, and returned to the virtue i built in the beginning, and i realized that all had not been lost, until i realized i had to reawaken myself and get back to where i was. >> how do you return that to america? >> you know, america is in a financial crisis. america is in a debt crisis. if you -- and we talk about the

debt ceiling. the debt ceiling and our financial crisis reflects who we are as america. we spend more than we earn. we buy things we cannot afford. and we don't want to make sacrifices. and so the united states has accumulated so much debt, $10 trillion or $15 trillion, we keep spending, spending, spending, and-under revenues cannot keep up with it. we have to get back to fiscal responsibility. if you max out on your credit card spin crease the debt on the credit card, and your interest rate -- either you have to pay the credit card off, restructure your debt, or you'll become bankrupt. so we have to return to fiscal discipline. and be responsible. we should only buy that which you can afford, and a lot of this started with the real

estate boom. so everybody thought that owning a home was a right and a privilege. you should only own a home you can afford. there's a lot of upkeep to the home that many people don't realize, and instead of listening to the government -- yes, the government is on the virtue of bankruptcy. in fact we're the 800-pound gorilla in the room. the only way the united states is going return to solvency, return to what people are accustomed to, the prosperity we once had, the american people must get their financial house in order. >> armstrong williams,. [inaudible] >> chris is my editor. this is important, a new publisher. sometimes we

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the integrity and the virtue of writing an honest book. the publishing he will awaken to be fair to both sides of. >> real beginning virtues restoring what america great is his latest. >> you made it. my god. >> i was reading a column. sometimes when you write i get stuck in reading things and i

kept reading and reading the. i sent him an e-mail and he never responded. so, when he said there he is. find the time, then you always agonize and people want to read this. is it life in the times you have to let all that dough. i started two years ago. spearman there was so much wanted to say but then i realized in order to reclaim virtue it stops with reclaiming yourself. it's the premonition you have to reclaim your virtues to this

gimmick even the people who don't like you like the book have to say that. [laughter] >> i stayed away from politics. i strictly dealt with the virtues. financial virtues of capitalism, savings. what. >> how do you know clyde? >> he is my lawyer. >> really? he called to tell me he said it be on the lookout. i said what does that mean? so, i'm just trying to water down here. what brings you to d.c. this weekend? >> we are meeting up -- she is

huge and art. in fact in jail but was his art deal. he testified against a woman who managed it in the art. i wanted to be down here select keep telling me that. i'm going to sign the book soon so everyone can get a copy, make sure everyone gets a copy of the book. you have to read the book.

>> let me tell you the book party books have changed so much since my first book in 1995. the publisher would do everything. they would set up the book parties and the media interviews and fight all over the country. basically now it's a partnership. they would publish the book which is wonderful. there is so much you have to do. the publishing is and what it used to be. i'm so glad i wrote the first book. this is the first book i've written in 16 years. >> i went through no child left behind in 2004, and i wanted to reawaken my own virtues. that's what it started with. you can talk about writing a book but actually getting it

done. >> i would like to thank all of you for coming to our home tonight. dr. ben carson and his wife and my husband and i are happy to have you out our home tonight for our friend, armstrong williams' book signing. we met armstrong in number of years ago at alphonso jackson, alphonso jackson was the secretary of housing at the time. we became instant friends and we are still great friends today. armstrong who gave me his book a few months ago. i read it. i feel like it's philosophical, it's his biography. i have some issues with some of his comments.

i want to elaborate on any of those, but the important thing, what made me realize the of something important to say and that is we have a really great country and we really were great and we really are great but our compromise broke somewhere along the line and it needs to get fixed but needs to get fixed with politically. it needs to get fixed with friends and most importantly with family. i was telling armstrong today that it makes me very sad to realize how many kids today are in families the mothers are working when i grew up the only mothers that work for those that were professional doctors or lawyers and nurses. no one else worked, but the kids today, their mothers have to

work to put food on the table. those are well-educated, because their mothers said get to a degree and walk wanted to work and didn't stay at home. so these kids are struggling for their identity, and it's a whole generation that's been lost, and i think armstrong's book touches on that. it may not agree with everything in it but you may agree that we are a great country, we've lost our compass and we need to get it back, and families need to get back to being families. so, armstrong, would you like to say something? [applause] >> sorry. my co-host, dr. ben carson and candy, forgive me for not introducing you and you

introduce armstrong. >> first of all, thank everybody for coming out and for this occasion. armstrong has been working on this book for a while, and it's been a very exciting project. as you probably know, this is not his first endeavor in the book room beyond blame and that is to the victims have also been excellent publications. armstrong and i have an opportunity to talk several times coming and we frequently when i am driving into work discussing the issues of the day of what is going on and most of the time he's right. [laughter] a book about virtue is so timely

and the timing in which we live right now because people have a tendency to do things and to manipulate situations for their own gain, for political gain as opposed to doing things that are right. and it seems to be a part of being an america that has been lost. in 1831 when alexis de tocqueville came to america to look at what was going on here because the europeans were just flabbergasted at how this nation, which was barely 50-years-old was already competing with all of the power of europe. and they said that's an impossible. as we have to go over and find out what is going on. but in the process of looking at our government, they also said let's look at the schools and they were absolutely blown away when they saw what was going on in the schools in this country

because first call anybody finishing the second grade is completely literate. you can go out in the mountains and find somebody and they could read and they knew all kinds of amazing things. anybody finishing the fifth or sixth grade was like a college graduate today. in fact if you want to be amazed, go look at the fifth or sixth street exit exam from the 1800's. i doubt that most college graduates today could pass it. but, you know, not only was there a high academic standard, but in the schools they taught the children values. one of our founding fathers set you educated person without teaching of values we are a menace to society. for we will see many examples of that in the society today and i think this book that armstrong has written really addresses that issue on many levels is

extraordinarily important for the time in which we live and an extremely proud of this man, armstrong williams. [applause] >> this is an awkward place for me but i will make the most of it. i'm not accustomed to being at high and looking low but i will do my best. you know, i want to thank grace for opening up their hearts to host this party and parsons, dr. carson and candy for making the time to be a part of this because, you know, in the washington it's a lot about

fielder. it really good friends of mine, their son, j.b. has been our producer for the radio show the last three years so when you call the office and hear that young voice that j.b. their son. so there is a real relationship here. and the parsons, murray and ross and all of them stay with me and we build a real relationship. it's difficult to build real relationships to really get to know people. how we make it work with dr. carson they will take everyone at 6:40 a.m. if he is in town. 6:30 a.m. and it's easy for me because every morning at 4:30 a.m. and on the phone with my mother and my brothers and my sisters. that has been going on for 15 years. no matter whether i'm out of the country or not to talk to my mother every day seven days a

week between 4:30 a.m. and 4:45 a.m.. why? because i get to know who they are. sometimes you even know your own relatives. you're so disconnected from them when something happens my god, i didn't know that about my brother. i never had that issue because i'm in constant contact with them. it was part of my upbringing that communicates so it's easy for me. it's nothing for me to call you at 5 a.m. because i have been up for so long but that is how i operate. and, you know, it's the only way i can talk to dr. carson. he's a surgeon, he has those gifted hands. so i want to talk to him, so i respect time, the virtue of time. but i want to get back to the book and the very dear people here in the room. shirley, come up here. shirley has been with the 15 or 16 years and is one of my main editors on the book. [applause] just a blessing. where is dr. person's son.

he was one of the -- i've been writing this book almost two years. where is marie? yes, there you are. he doesn't want you to see his hair but he's going to be seen today. he was very helpful with the book. bo was helpful with the editing process and these are the people -- i don't go out and get professional writers. i get the best writers, the best editors committed these are the people who work with me the last three years on this book that makes the possible. [applause] >> i'm always responsible. >> so i just want you to meet the team of people who have made this possible and you will see them all in the book to read and i want to thank them before the season audience. thank you. [applause] >> i would want to introduce you to my good friend david smith but i know he's not going to

come up. jane, just leave that alone. okay, i will come and coby this year. let me tell you this. everybody remembers no child left behind from 2004. and there is the dolph. i must have said something that a weakened his virtues. [laughter] but anyhow, in 2004 was no child left behind, and it was a very tumultuous, not just a tumultuous year in my life -- oh my god. [laughter] angela, you have to follow the dog the dog is trying to tell us something. but anyhow, so obviously i have my moment in the valley from a child left behind, and i was trying to figure out because i lost my way of life, i lost 80% of my business but you know what was interesting i never lost any of my friends, never did.

my friends really dug in and hung in there with me and normally you say you find out where your friends are but it never happened with me. we've known each other for 30 years. we were in a realistic plastic and about our real estate license together and fight pastore, frank tucker that i can always go to to give me sound advice, you know my relationships never change and when your relationships never change, that says a lot about you and what you have invested in. so in her life because i lost my way of life and a lot of money i lost my credibility, and i also understand it doesn't matter how many books i read your columns i write people will always believe i have no credibility because i sold my cells out and brought about no child left behind without disclosing it. the good thing about life, no matter how much god forgives you or how much you restore yourself to a better place, you still have to pay the price for your shortcomings and for falling short. that never goes away.

and it is the price that i will always have to pay. so the lesson in life just because you forget, we never stop paying for your sins and shortcomings. don't ever forget that. there will always be a mark on my history. but you know what, it's okay because life goes on. you've just got to keep living, get in the morning, hold your head up high. you can't worry about what people say because you have to keep it up. building one cinderblock at a time you have to keep building. so, i realize in the real awakening virtues i used to be so busy writing about everybody else's virtues and problems, and it's so easy to write about somebody else, but i will come up one morning in something real weekend in me. i can't even tell you what it was. it let me know that everything was going to be all right but what i realized i had to do was to free a week in my own virtues. my virtues of truth and honesty. my virtue of integrity and of

capitalism. you see it starts within. if you work on yourself, the hardest work figure will do 24 hours a day is work on yourself. that is the hardest work in the world. work on yourself, try to be good because being good is not easy. it's a very difficult process and that is why it is much easier to point of the problem than somebody else and not look at yourself because you don't have to work on yourself. but what i've learned over the last several years the more i work on myself the better the world around me becomes. i didn't want to write a book bashing democrats i was tired of that. i wanted to write a book of virtues because they are not black and white, they are not liberal or republican. virtues are universal truths. and so we found this publisher, new chapter publishing out of sarasota florida. i wanted a liberal editor. i sought him out. and i must tell you i realized

how biased and locked down i was in my political ideology that i cannot even tell you the truth was unless we were republicans or conservatives. it took me eight months just to work out my own issues and being fair and this is what happens to us. we get so bogged down and get a democrat, you know, republican that we bite into so much that we have no idea what it takes to get to the truth. it took me almost a year to get to the truth of the things i thought i could never see they made me see the light. and i began to see things in terms of truth and honesty i began to see the issues with the republican party that i was in power. they had all the answers when you know the conclusion i've come to, they are all the same. because of the end of the day, an order for the country to get back to where it needs to be, we have got to get back to the virtue of savings and capitalism if you want to know what is wrong with the country, why we have this debt crisis, it is

because you look in your own home. people spend what they don't have. your home is just like the country. it's a corporation. you have the mother, you have the father, you have children, those children while they are assets that don't bring any revenues in the household. so all those debts, the corporate debt that you have. major debt. when you have to do, you have to sit down with your spouse and set up a budget because you realize the income will be generated and guess what, they will be with you for almost 18 years the u.s. to calculate. imagine you have that debt and the debt continues to come and to keep spending more than you have. you make 150 together you are making to the to spending to injured 50,000 then say to somebody i just coming over leveraged need to go and increase my debt ceiling. can i get an additional $500,000 to work with? i know the interest rate is high. i'm going to pay it off the

imagine that accumulates over ten or 15 years. imagine what is going to happen. it's going to go bankrupt. you can't pay it. you're going to lose your home and we of life and it's going to impact everything especially your kids. so americans are living beyond their means. they don't want to sacrifice well, i want to get this or maybe i should sacrifice that ice cream cone it's just that simple. maybe i should sacrifice i don't need to go to tear up maybe i should go to a far more to something different. we are not willing to sacrifice. it's easy for me to sit and criticize the people in the white house and people in congress that reflect the we are coming and money and materialism has replaced god in our lives. we have to get back to the virtue of the south and what do i mean when i see the virtue which is in my book we have to find time to be alone with god, find the time to be alone with our money and the time to be alone with our tully's, but we have to find the time to be

alone with our creator so that we can redefine how we are. get back to the essence what once made america great. the virtues, honesty, hard work. we don't need the government to tell us to be charitable. we don't need the government to tell us -- we know how to take care of our neighbors and people come and you know, they bash the rich. it's not the issue about the rich, and i believe the rich they give, they have and they give. the issue is 40% of the people in this country don't pay taxes. and so the other 53% is carrying the 47%. i believe in virtues that everybody must be the senate should be 10% across the board. everybody should have skin in the game. that is not black and white that's just the way it is. and the problem is not everybody's pulling their weight in this country. and there has to be shared sacrifices. everybody must suffer in this economy. everybody. no one would be left unscathed as we go through these very

tough times. but you've got to make the sacrifices. for these entitlement programs, what effort is. whether it is the pentagon, the wasteful spending in congress, and they are all the same. they're like drunken sailors to keep carrying the bucket to the next party and we and george innovation, who were children will be d ultimate wants to pay the price. we have to get ourselves out of debt. you cannot stand, you cannot increase the deficit from 10 trillion to 15 trillion over to and have come you just can't do it, you can't live that way. and the problem is in foreign countries all our debt. look in your own home. if -- and i believe this because i know most of them -- is the government manage the household the we did you manage yours, i think america would be a better place. we have to get back to the virtues of capitalism and saving. what do i mean by savings? a great lesson my mother taught me. when the bill would come and my mother would immediately. forget the fact it was to three weeks later she would immediately. just because you make money here

you may make a lot of money this year there may be a drop next year. put something aside you never know when hard times are coming. you can't spend like everything is going to be a blessing because you have to go back to the virtues of the body and the stories of people who become have the have nots. you have to learn to save money. you never know when your store is going to hit. you have to have financial. and then the of a thing is when we talk about the crisis it's not the end of the world. mike crisis there's been no child left behind, and you know, for all practical purposes, not only that of surviving, but god has blessed me with a tenfold over. i can't tell you why. there are a lot of people who serve god and believe in god just as much as i do and they don't have much to show for it. not everybody wants the same thing. while we may be created equal we don't need this increases. and you pay a price for your choice. there's a price you don't have a father in the household. i get back to the church of

fatherhood it's not a criticism of the women but children are much better when they have a mother and father and if you don't -- if you think a father is a luxury to become your kidding yourself. i cannot be the man i am today if it were not for my father. for us to believe you don't need a father in the household is lunacy. and what we begin to believe is to tell us what we don't need and the virtues of motherhood, being mothers. we get back to the virtues of motherhood. they are rightly things that brought me to the press of his of success but then i lost that coming and i realize if i just get back to the simple things, hard work, discipline, sacrifice, respecting time. so anybody in this room will tell you if you have an appointment with me at 12:00 i will be there at 11:45 a.m. because i respect time. that's the way that i operate. it is the one thing that you cannot get back. you can never get time back no matter how hard you try you have to respect the virtue of time. i really encourage you to read the book because the book is not

about me. it's about what works. from the beginning of time more absolute, i don't care what anybody tells you, it will always be absolute. whether you believe it or not, we all have some kind of struggle. somebody may be struggling with breast cancer. when you struggle with disease, a terminal disease, you learn things about yourself that you never knew before. you learn how to fight to live. there may be a financial crisis. but everybody faces a crisis. but a crisis is a blessing because you really learn her you are when you are in the fight but when you try and fight. what rupert murdoch's coming through, the bottom line is it will test his character in a way that it has never been tested before and we may tell you, you will see whether or not the phoenix will rise out of the ashes. i think about my friend, david smith, what he went through that some -- sinclair broadcast. it will always rise to the top. no matter where we are the

world, we will always rise to the top. and you have to look at the virtue and the value of you and realize we're your strength comes from. it doesn't come from your dollar or your marriage, it comes from the deeds that you do when nobody else is looking into the moral choices that you make every day that meet your life better with ultimately making a life is better around you. i want to thank you for coming and i want everybody to go out briefly in the heat because i want to -- and thanks to the vendors and the carson's i dare you to buy a book today. there's no way. they pay for the book themselves candy and dr. carson, the books are all paid for. okay? [applause] and i'm grateful. let me tell you i'm grateful but i want to thank you for coming reawakening virtues you have to reawaken the virtues and you. you know, no matter how blessed you are, no matter how fortunate you are coming you get to spend

20 years building something and you can lose it in a flash. the last thing i want to say is the virtue of friendship and relationship. you have to take care of your relationships. not when you want something or when you need something. you have to take care of your relationships. if there's one thing i think i do a very good job at or with my relationships because they are very important to me, my relationships, i think i'd pick up the phone and call about 7% of the people in this room to make sure because i really wanted you to be here. it was really important to us that you come, because we want to not just reawaken the virtues in this room, but we need to reawaken the virtues of this nation, and get back to -- get the country back on the track of financial solvency, get rid of the issues like race and class, because you know what? we are all going to die, and when your on your deathbed, the last thing you're going to be talking about or think it is your entire and how much money you have to leave your going to be trying to save your soul. as a child -- and i will close