child, my parents were so obsessed with this thing called have indicated they really believed that there was a heaven. they really believed that there was a life beyond earth. they used to tell me there's no more sickness, there's no more sorrow, there's no more sadness, there's no more hurt, there's nothing but joy. as a child, you imagine that there's a place like that that exists, does it really exist? even though my father passed away on his deathbed he was talking about a city called handan. he said boy come to know how you've got to get there? you've got to do good, treat people right, you got to be honest and have integrity. even when it is not your benefit, even when it means you lose. so, for me as a gambling man, and i take risks, as a gambling man, what i have to lose if i bit on that there's a place called him? that if i die tomorrow that i could lift my eyes and there's a place i have no more problems? can you imagine that? no more problems in the world. i can't lose on that bet. so my ultimate bet is in life.

no matter what i do in the back of my mind, every day i say i have to work on armstrong and really think my mom was on to something because even if i'm wrong i don't lose. so i have to work on this place, on that city, that bright light. you know, everybody talks about it especially in a crisis. but as a child, that was my obsession, trying to get to that city called have been to read and to get to that city, there's a certain way you have to live, and there's a certain way you have to give. there's a certain way you have to deal with same and if we get back to having a goal, not just the lofty goals of materialism on earth, but if you really believe that you can be free of all of these things, you can live the rest of your life in peace, i don't know what sparks you, i want to get there. thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations]

>> thank you sir. [inaudible] >> my goodness. spearman your in this book. you know about that place called heaven, don't you? it's true, isn't it? >> you were doing quite a bit of preaching that there. [laughter] >> hey, come up here man. got to move this line. >> tim landis. actually, i am gigi's friend. >> a paper towel, please. >> i have to say goodbye. >> i have to sign your book. >> talk to you soon. congratulations. i'm not even going to tell you

what he said. that's all you're going to say? that's okay. [laughter] stop, stop. we will see you on the show this week. we look forward to it to expand this is a book party for armstrong williams posted by mardy increase bender and their washington, d.c. home. for more information of armstrong williams, visit his web site at rightsidewired.com.

[inaudible conversations] [applause] [cheering]i'm ke gon i never get that kind of d. reaction. [laughter]communations i am like a gonzalez theasur to communications. heritage.ulter, t autho welcome. it's my pleasure to welcome ann coulter to the heritage foundation. she's the author of "the new york times" bestsellers and the new one out right now called ana "demonic." thn it's very funny.e in my it's -- like colleagues know when i'm reading one of herice. columns because i'm laughing out loud flecha manmohan in my office, it's more than funny. she is witty and clever comegys courageous, she tackles issues l many will not.

she stands up for her beliefs on others won't and that is because eir many she is deep convictions. she understands conservatism.n e there are many of us here obviously but in the audienceord somewhere i want to recognize tc people former atteorney general who was the ronald reagan fellow 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,y writg is like chick .. 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 f >> my father's the part i get it from. >> from brooklyn. >> i think it's the art. >> i'm working, enjoyed working for the wmao this morning. >> thank you. >> when i was stuck in traffic, you were a great distractions. this is for my father. >> oh, excellent.

s-i-d-n-e-y? >> yeah. >> he'll be so happy. >> i know, that's why we put my books out before father's day. >> thank you. >> hello. >> nice to heat you. >> nice to meet you. okay, wait -- k-r -- >>-i-s -- >> that's nice of you. >> i know. i ordered the book online -- [inaudible] >> hello. >> nice to meet you. >> thank you.

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> i have a house for sale next to chris matthews, so if you want to agitate him -- >> sure. >> thank you very much. >> okay, that's fine.

>> thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] >> nice to meet you. >> o', yeah, i like him, and he's not quite as crazy. there's a long way to go. you want this for you? [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

[applause] >> thank you. well, good morning. i've just come from a meeting with the republican congressional delegation.

[laughter] and they've so far followed my plan to the letter. i met with them earlier this year telling them i had a great idea if you just get rid of medicare, you are going to do better than you did last fall. [laughter] the democrat won -- i think there's been four democrats legislated there since the civil war, so it was quite something. my suggestion to the republicans today is that don't stop here with medicare, but i think it will go over really big, and after that, the elimination of traffic lights -- [laughter]

and then kittens. get rid of kittens. [laughter] go all out and be opposed to little kitty-cats. you'll do well a year from november here. all right. enough picking on them. you know, they have a rough road ahead of them, and, you know, it's just -- i was saying last night it just resembled and caught a great cast back in november, but they started running in the opposite direction down the football field away from their goal. it's like democrats and liberals, everybody's all peace, love, and understanding, and, you know, we're on the field going, no, no, turn around, go -- no, no, i have the ball. i'm going this way. yes, but people like their medicare. no, i don't care. i have the ball. so, anyway, what can you do?

so i assume you work in bookstores or home bookstores or -- the librarians are here. [cheers and applause] teacher are to blame for everything, you know, all that money they're taking from us. i have a new book coming out in september, and it's called here comes trouble, stories from my life, and it's a book of about two dozen short stories. they are all from my life, and i go through a number of interesting incidents and things that happened to me before i made my first film, so this

takes place all in the years leading up to roger and me, and and so it's a short story about getting lost inside the capitol building at 11 years old. my parents took us to washington, d.c., and i got lost, and i walked into an elevator and didn't see the sign that said senators only, so the doors shut, and there's a man reading the paper, and puts the paper down, and i have tears in my eyes because i lost my mommy and daddy, and senator robert kennedy, and so the story's about his effort to help me find my parents, a day in the capitol building. there's another story about i asked my parents if i could leave home at 14, and they said yes because i said i wanted to be a priest, and they didn't want to get in the way of god's calling, so i went to the seminary at 14 years old, and so

there's 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, but so there's -- there's a whole bunch of things like this, and then i found myself present at a terrorist incident that took place in the 1980s in this particular day where there were 19 people killed and probably about 120 or so injured from bullets and grenade shrapnel, and i was just coming into the airport to change planes, and so i write about what it's like to actually be present at one of these terrorist incidents and live and so the book is -- the book has a lot of these experiences and stories that sort of explain how i got to be

where i got and why i ended up doing the things that i did, and they are interesting and wild and some of funny and some are not so follow-up -- funny, but i begin the book in the present, and i thought maybe i would read just a limit -- i don't know whether a time concern or constraints here or not, but i'll -- you want to hear a little bit of this? i have not read any of this to anybody, and, in fact, it's still on the pages that it was typedded on. there's a quote from glenn beck. [laughter]

i'm wondering about michael moore, if i would kill him, would i do it myself or find intun else. i think i could be choking the life out of him. is this wrong? i stopped wearing my what would jesus do band and lost sense of right and wrong now. i used to say, yeah, i'd kill michael moore, and then i saw the wristband of what would jesus do and realized oh, you wouldn't kill michael moore, or at least you wouldn't choke him to debt, and, well, now i'm not so sure. that's from glenn beck's radio program on may 17th, 2005. i can't remember of the name of the reporter who asked me the question, but i remember the moment very well. he said, aren't 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 live on the floor of the democratic convention in 2004. his tone of voice was one how shall we say, hopeful. i looked at him and i didn't know how to respond. i tried to make light of it. when the interview was over, i couldn't put it out of my head what he just said on national television, that there are those that want you dead. i guarantee you no filmmaker or political person was asked that question ever live on national tv. it had been a rough year for me, the threats, assaults, the man who planned to blow up my house, and now this journalist had to plant the seed of an idea in a few more deranged heads. i just stared at him, and he stared back. with other reporters asking

questions, i would not take my eyes off of him, and i lost it. for the first time in my life i decided i was going to punch somebody in the face. i walked up to him with dirty harry calm and said this is the most dispicketble thing i've been asked on live television. he could see what was going to happen next and asked me to wait a few minutes until he was done a few minutes until he was down talking to a guy. sure, i can wait. he would slip away, there was nowhere to hide and took rough fiewj inside the refuge of all scoundrels, fund found him, and whispered you made my death seem acceptable. you just told people it was okay to kill me. he tried to back away, but i blocked him in. i want you to think about your actions if anything happens to

me, and don't think my family wouldn't come after you, because they will. he mumbled his right to ask me anything he wanted, and it was not worth breaking my lifelong record of never hitting anyone, especially a weasel from cable news. within a year, he would be a star on fox news where he should have been in the first place. to be fair to him, his question was one i had heard before, just not posed to eagerly. it was not unusual to be asked usually by perplexed europeans, how is it you're still alive or for fans of mine to randomly hug 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 a security expert who was often used by the secret service that, "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 brought this all on myself beginning the night of march 23, 2003, four days prior george w. bush invaded iraq, a country that not only not attacked us, but it was, in fact, the past recipient of much military aid from the united states. this was an illegal, immoral stupid invasion, but that's not how americans saw it. over 70% backed the war including liberals like al franken and the 29 democratic senators who voted for the war authorization bill including senators chuck schumer, dianne feinstein, and john kerry, and the "new york times" editor and others all supporting the war. the times ran many bogus front

page stories about how hussein had weapons of mass destruction. they later apologized for their cheer leading of this war, but the damage had been done. they had given bush the cover he needed and the ability to claim if a liberal paper like the times says so, it must be true. it must be true. here it was, the fourth night of a very unpopular war, and my film, bowling for columbine was up for an oscar. i was not allowed to talk to the press going into the theater. there was fear someone might say something and in wartime, we need everyone on the same page. the actress dianne lane red the list of nominees for best documentary. the envelope was opened, and she announced i had won. on the main floor the actors, directors, writers gave me a

standing ovation. i invited my nominees 20 join me -- to join me on the stage, and they walked up with me, and i spoke the following words, " thank you very much -- i won't do my oscar speech impersonation -- "thank you very much, i invited my fellow nominees on the stage with us here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. we like nonfiction, yet we live in fictitious times. we live in a time where we have fictitious 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's the fiction of duct tape or fiction of orange alerts, we are against this war.

we are against this war, mr. bush, shame on you, shame on you, mr. bush. any time you got both the pope and the dixie chicks against you, your time is up." [laughter] it's weird, that's the first time i read the words out loud since that night. about halfway through those remarks, all hell broke lose. there were boos, very loud boos from the upper floors and from backstage. the producer of the stage 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 fact -- the first two words every oscar winner hears right after you win and leave the stage come from two young people that the academy has hired, they are attired 234 formal wear and stand in the wings to greet you.

the young girl said to me, champaigne? she held out a flute of champaigne. the young boy next to her said, breath mint? [laughter] he held out a breath mint. [laughter] champaigne and breath mint are the two words all oscar winners hear first, but i got to hear a third. an angry stage hand came up to me and screamed in my ear, asshole! other angry stage hands came towards me and they saw the rumble that was about to break out, and they took my by the arm and moved me to a safer place. i was shaken, rattled, and due to the overwhelming negative rejection to my speech, instead of this being the moment of a lifetime, i was con viptioned i let everyone down, my fans, those against the war, the oscar organization, my crew, my wife, my dad who was sitting in the

audience, anyone who meant anything to me, i had ruined their night, and i suddenly sunk into a pit of dispair. an hour later, we walked into the governor's ball. the place grew immediately silent and people stepped away for me for fear their picture would be taken. i stood there alone with my wife at the entrance shunned by the hollywood establishment. only one person dared to approach me. her name was sherry lancing, head of paramount studios at the time. she saw what was going on, walked up the center ail in fronted of everyone where where i stood. she came up to me and gave me a big kiss on the cheek. thank you, she said. it hurts now. someday you're be proved right. i'm so proud of you. she kissed me again.

that was pretty much it for the night. we sat quietly at our table and ate our roast beef. we decided to skip the parties and went back to the hotel. i couldn't sleep so i turned on the tv. the next hour i watched the local l.a. tv stations do their oscar post game shows, and as i flipped between the dials, i realized i listened to commentator after another criticize me and my speech and say over and over i don't know what got into him, but i can't see him having an easy time getting another movie may in this town. talk about career suicide. after an hour of this, i had the sick feeling in me i believed they were right. i got to listen to more boos over the next 24 hours walking through the hotel, going to the airport. it was like i helped the

russians throw the olympics. hate, hate took up at least a dozen rows or not plane. meanwhile back in the home in michigan, the local beautification committee dumped three truckloads of horse manure in our drive waive waist high so we could not enter the property, a property that was decorated with a dozen signs nailed to the trees saying get out, move to cuba, 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 a group that essentially are ex-navy seals and army rangers and they became my security. i go through in this chapter, and i go through the various incidents of people assaulting me, trying to assault me, and finally somebody attempting or

planning to blow up my house. the seals basically saved me, and kept me alive, and i, in the book, describe these incidents really for the first time. you're not supposed to talk about these things in public. here's the end of that chapter. one night in florida -- this is after basically it's part of -- i started training with the navy seals and lifting weights and walking and 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, so now i was like in condition. one night in florida, my new bust self-along with a friend,

we walked into the mall to see a movie. a young guy in his 30s passed by me, and as he did, he said this, shithead. he continued on his walk, i turned towards him, hey, you, come 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 help the hater, did it? the guy kept walking. hey, don't run away from me i shouted louderment don't be a chicken. come back here and face me. chicken is a dish not well served to the gender with test toes roan in their fluids. he turned back towards me. as he got five feet from me, i said the following. hey, man, why would you say such a thing to me? he sneered and got ready for a fight. because i know who you are.

now, there you go again using that word. you haven't the foggiest idea who i am or what i'm really about. you haven't seen one of my movies. i don't need to, he replied on firming what i already suspected. i already know the commie stuff you put out there. okay, dude, that's not fair. you can't judge me based on what somebody else told you about me. you look way smarter than that, a guy who makes up his own mind. please watch one of my me views. -- movies, you may not agree, but you will know i have a deep love for this country, and you'll see 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 a shithead after that, then fine, but i don't think you will. he calmed down, and we talked for another five minutes, listened to his complaints about the world, and i told him that we probably have more in common

than not. he relaxed more, and eventually i got a smile out of him. finally i said i had the gull to say we're missing our movie. hey, man, he said, i'm sorry i called you that name. you're right, i don't know you, but the fact you talked to me after i said that, well, maybe i should. please accept my apology. i did, and we shook hands. i had taken a risk for sure, but i had had enough of this. there would be no more disrespecting or 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 would be consequences. i may make you watch one of my movies. a few weeks later, i was back on the tonight show for the first time in quite a while. when it was over i was leaving the stage, and a guy operating the boom microphone approached me.

you probably don't remember me he said. i never thought i'd get to 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 man's soon to be broken hand. i never thought i'd get this chance to poalingsz to you he said as tears came into his eyes, and now here you are, and i get to say this. i was the guy who ruined your oscar night i'm the guy who yelled asshole into your ear after you came off the stage. i -- i -- he trying to compos himself. i thought you were attacking the president, but you were right, he did lie to us. i had to carry this with me now all these years, and that i did that to you on your big night, i'm so sorry. by now, he was shaking pretty bad, and all i could think of to do was reach out and give him a huge hug. it's okay, man, i said. i accept your apology, but you

don't need to apologize to me. you did nothing wrong. what did you do? you believed your president. you're supposed to believe the president. if we can't expect that as just the minimum from whomever is in office, then we're doomed. well, he said, relieved, thank you for understanding. understanding, i said. this is not about understanding. i told this story for years about the first two words i hear, and then i got to hear a second word, don't take this story from me. people love it. he laughed, and i laughed. there's not many good stories like that. of course, there were. i had a ton of them, and i had been wanting to tell these 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 chapter. thanks. [applause] so -- [applause] thank you. [applause] it was really cool, i got to do this for the first time. they said we have time, a couple minutes for questions if anybody would like to ask me anything or say anything or whatever. you're welcome to do that. yes, sir, in the front row. >> yeah -- [inaudible] >> the question is -- now that everybody recognizes it, no -- i can do the same movie, but i send in surrogate

to do an interview with somebody who won't talk to me, and i sit in the truck listening and they have an ear piece, and i feed the question that way so i can at least conduct the interview because you're right, obviously some people will not talk to me now, but i found ways to get around it. yes, sir? >> i talked about what? >> being an nra member. are you still? >> am i still an nra member? i had the lifetime membership in the nra, and i think they had a special vote to -- [laughter] excommunicate me. [laughter] i don't think i'm a member any longer, but i still have the nice leather jackets they sent me. yes, sir, on the aisle, yes.

>> [inaudible] >> what do i think of the nation's governor -- what's happening? this is -- i mean, 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 really took over the state houses and governorships in a huge swath of the country in november, and they didn't do it just to put it on their resumé. they came in with a plan was to go after public employees, go after teachers, take away people's pensions, ect.. i think they've shot themselves in the foot, and i think that those senators in wisconsin i hope will be recalled and they got a taste of it last night. i mean, can you imagine being a member of congress and being a republican this morning and you can't get legislated in the district that only votes for republicans? only votes for republicans, and the woman who won was behind 20 points a few weeks ago before

the medicare vote. this is what -- if the republicans -- if we were smart as they are, this is what we would have done. as soon as the house took that vote to get rid of medicare, senator reid, the democrat, should have immediately called for a vote on it in the senate. it wouldn't have passed because we got the votes; right? but put every republican senator on the record for wanting to kill medicare. [applause] yeah, well, i think you're applauding the great idea -- [laughter] that'll get us -- that won't get us over to 10th avenue. [laughter] it's -- why don't the democrats do this stuff? >> why? >> why? why? i mean, there's a cynical answer which is they are bought and paid for by the same people, and then there's the weird answer, they just don't have -- they are missing the backbone.

for the life of me i don't understand because the other side would never behave this way, and i guess it makes us feel better about ourselves that, you know, we don't want to hold the vote here in the senate and embarrass them, so, you know, let's not do that to them right now. i mean, yes, i like the fact that we're the peace, love, and understanding group, but for crying out loud, we're going to lose this country if we don't stand up, and stand up against this madness. yes, ma'am? >> [inaudible] >> i don't know. i don't know. i don't know. that's a good question. i don't know. i just get up in the morning. i don't know. i'm a citizen of this country, you know? it almost -- it's redundant to say that i -- i've never called myself an activist because i think that if you say that you're a citizen of a democracy,

it should imply that you're active because a democracy doesn't exist unless you're active, so i don't -- i never really viewed myself that way, so, yes, in the middle. >> [inaudible] >> i don't have the resources and if you're involved in a struggle, but i didn't have the resources. i was a guy from flint with a high school education. i didn't know anybody. i made roger and me. follow your conscious, your heart, and don't dispair and realize that you're going to be alone through a lot of this and through some of it you may have to put up with -- i tell the story of a guy in fort lauterdale, a nicely dressed guy, sees me, you can see the

beck chip on his head, and his face turns red, purple, and takes the lid off his hot coffee and throws it in my face. because i had the navy seals with me, the guy, the seal saw it happening did not have time to stop the guy, so he put his face in front of mine, took the hit for me, had to go to the hospital for second degree burns, but not before he took the guy down and called the police. i don't want to encourage anybody to have to deal with all of that because it's, you know, it's not pleasant. yes, ma'am? >> [inaudible] >> she's referring 20 my dog and said something nice about it and

what happened? >> well, we have the first step of it passed -- >> [inaudible] >> i hope it's just the first because it's not the real thing we need. we need single payer universal health care for everyone. [applause] this is why the republicans have it wrong. we don't need less medicare, but more. medicare for all. the countries with medicare for all spend -- france, germany, and japan spend half of what we spend for citizens on health care. that's with free health care. they've got the american mind warped into thinking the government's paying for this, oh, my god, it's going to break the budget. no, it's going to save us money, and people won't put off going to the doctor, and you catch something sooper, it doesn't cost as much later because people put things off going to the doctor. they have insurance or there's a story last week about how people even with insurance are not going to the doctor because to

pay the deductible or the copay is crazy. i'm a posed to deductibles and copays. they look at us in other countries like we're crazy. i mean, i have health insurance for my staff, and there is no deductible. you know, it's just like that is -- and when i talk to the insurance company, they are not exactly my best friends, you know, or wanting to do my favors. i said what would it cost -- here's the $2,000 and $1,000 deductible. i said what about no deductible. he says, hang on. he goes $17 per month per employee. i said, you got to be kidding me, $17 more dollars per employee per month i can give them no deductible? yeah. i was like, oh, man, this is crazy. i hope we have a canadian-style

system some day, and, you know, people will -- the right wing appointments out what's wrong with canada, but try to find a canadian who gives up their free health care card and exchange it for a blue cross card in this country. they would never do it no matter their complaints about their system, and the canadians -- every country with free health care lives one, two, three, four years longer than we do. japan lives more, i think. time for one more? okay. who's got the best one? [laughter] yes? >> [inaudible] >> i think the government is going to -- >> [inaudible] >> come back and -- i don't know what that means. >> [inaudible] >> i'll repeat the question. do i think the government will come back and get the witnesses of 9/11?

>> [inaudible] >> you mean will the government come back for new york or -- >> [inaudible] >> why would they do that? it's too early in the morning to be talking this stuff. [laughter] who's got the last real question? [laughter] yes, ma'am. >> [inaudible] >> what's the subject of my next film? >> yeah. >> it's about -- [laughter] and it should be out sometime next year. [laughter] thank you very much. [applause]

>> up next, booktv attended the book launch party of muzzled by juan williams. they signed books and interacted with guests at l2, a private lounge in washington, d.c.. >> juan williams, nice to meet you, and this is my friend, ed rogers. thanks for coming, man. i really appreciate you joining me. this is really nice of you. thank you. >> it's a tv camera. [laughter] >> we're on tv? >> yeah, it will be on c-span eventually.

[laughter] future president of the united states. >> you should write -- sure. >> sure. >> nothing wrong with being a president. >> no. >> and you get your own bowling alley. >> is that true? >> uh-huh. >> that's pretty good. >> write congressman? >> congressman. >> yeah. >> she's a big fan. >> oh, i like him a lot. >> what do i do to make it special? like something he cares about. this is about free speech and debate without being politically correct. >> something like this -- it's one who refuses to be silent on issues you care about. something like that. i hope that you enjoy it.

>> a man who refuses to be silent -- >> about things he cares about. >> this is michael rayhill? >> yes. >> from politics and prose which is washington's hometown bookstore, and pretty much every major author that comes through washington stops at politics and prose, and if they are lucky, have the opportunity to give a presentation and talk about their book, and i've done two books at politics and prose, i did "eyes on the prize there" and "thurgood marshall" there. we are a blessed city in the sense that so many cities are losing bookstores, but politics and prose has recently been

purchased by hometown people, and it's here, thriving, and we're blessed. >> thank you very much. i look forward to seeing you up there. >> oh, yeah. thank you for coming, michael. >> thank you. >> how are you? >> good, how are you. >> when's it come out? >> two weeks. >> this is a short best seller and has all the secrets if you want to learn what truly happens inside the fbi. i can't tell you the sours -- sources. he'd be mad at me. >> we'll have a segment according to lee. >> now i'm in serious trouble. >> i asked him for comment, and they said, actually -- >> no, i want to hear what they said.

>> they said, we're not sure what they are referring to, but all our parties sponsored by npr which could be a broad range of things, and they are so subconscious about the failings, but i didn't hit them on that. >> i included not having -- [inaudible] >> that'll break it up for them. breakthrough. >> how are you? do you know ron? >> no. >> he's a great -- kerry runs the center of journalism and politics. >> politics and journalism. >> politics and journalism. he's also one of the smartest people -- if you ever read, but,

anyway organization great journalist. he's a true invet -- investigative journalist, the real deal. a lot of people in this town will pretend they are really investigators. he's the real deal. >> nice to meet you. every time we go out. >> familiar faces? >> i wore my libertarian chain -- unmuzzled. >> unmuzzled, right here. >> looking forward to reading it. >> liberty. want me to sign this page? >> yeah, i like the ones where the title and the title page.

[inaudible conversations] >> you realize this means you -- [inaudible] >> i'd be deliberated. >> i am as a libertarian feel muzzled all the time in terms of the con -- conventional wisdom in this city. [inaudible conversations] >> put the date on it. >> you know, have to do that. >> thanks for taking the time. look at you, lovely. >> sometimes he says he's too busy for me. i can't get on the schedule. he tells me about the bible study, the exercise, and tells me he really doesn't deserve to have a wife like you. >> oh, isn't that cute. >> one time we were talking about a movie star, and she left and says you know what it's like

to live with a beautiful woman, how demanding -- >> who was it? >> he says, yeah, i know how to live with a beautiful woman. check it out. and you were not there. you were not there. >> congratulations. she was there turned out. >> oh, oh -- >> i didn't know she was there. >> even better. >> it was a convention in philadelphia, and then i said everybody was talking about how beautiful she still looked, and i said, i feel like i ought to know because i married a beautiful woman. she was there. i told the story. >> it's a good thing you were not pulling her leg or making fun. >> thank you for doing that. very kind to come. >> i'm excited to read your book. >> thank you.

>> how long -- [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> congratulations. >> thank you for helping me through this struggle. >> you're the man. >> thanks. >> virginia, how are you? >> i'm good, thank you. >> keeping up with the old man? >> yes, more like keeping up with us. i have the grand kids. >> that's true. >> let me tell you, you know, my daughter lives in san fransisco, and we finally persuaded her to move back to dc, so next month, our grandson returns. >> oh, that's terrific. >> it is. >> when was she last here? >> she's been in san fransisco for four years. >> wow. >> and has a baby in san

fransisco. >> uh-huh, well good. you deserve a baby. >> you think? >> your baby. >> well, i don't know. but i'm sure going to love him up. you know, what shall i say to make this special for virginia? >> uh, make it all about her, and not about me. >> okay. well, what do i say? >> say this, you can say that whose father is proud of her than any father has been ever been of any daughter. >> wow. >> oh, thank you. >> and now you have it in writing. how are you guys? thank you very much for coming. >> congratulations. >> i appreciate you making the trip. >> absolutely, it's awesome. >> we may talk about the draft another time. >> it could be a good time. >> i didn't think the nfl would get back together. >> yes, yes.

>> it's a night out for you? >> yes, yes, we want to get dapsing. >> this is as wild as it gets. >> normally they have dancing here. >> yeah. >> it's late. this place is not a disco. >> right. >> they call it a lounge for corporate people to bring visitors, have a drink, and at ten o'clock, the music startings to pick up. >> yeah. >> by eleven o'clock people move, and by midnight, the place is flooded with young people. >> yes. >> one night they had ken and barbie night and people dressed up as ken and barbie. it was unbelievable. >> yeah. >> it was like a masker raid ball. >> yeah. >> oh, you're a sweet heart. let me sign this for you. >> okay. >> one, you have to do to her stepfather. glrks h-e-r-s-t-l-e rerkz.

>> last name? >> w-i-s-e-m-a-n. >> who do i say? love books? >> he's a journalist. >> oh, a journalist. >> he's retired now, but has a radio station in watersville, georgia, and so for years, he's been thage taiter -- agitator in the town, but the one who told us when we were kids, stop at every stop sign. i did an editorial. things like that, small town. >> he's the only republican in the family. >> all right. >> he's still has a radio show. >> do you know the name of the radio show or the name of the ride station? >> yeah. his show is hw at large. >> oh, my gosh. >> it's an interview show he still does.

>> hw at large; right? >> yeah. >> he'll love it. >> yeah. >> he'll also call to interview you. >> he'll want to call to interview you. >> big fan. >> thank you, thank you. >> all right. so, who is this for? >> it's for amanda and thomas. >> we were so sorry about everything that happened. >> yeah. i sent e-mails in to your office that day. >> thanks. [inaudible conversations] >> you know, it's not that we always agreed with everything you said. >> no, i know, exactly.

>> not a lot, but i mean, some stores are different now because they put you in a tv studio -- this is my wife. >> hi, nice to meet you. [inaudible conversations] >> thank you for taking the time to come over here. >> i wanted to come say hi. >> sure. hey,man, thank you for doing this. this is great of you to do. >> thank you. sure. >> absolutely. [inaudible conversations] >> so wait a second, if this book is about good journalism, good journalism, right there, my map. thank you, guys. >> we didn't even know what to

do. congrats. >> you're welcome. >> i like the tie. how was china? >> it was awesome. >> when did you get back? >> middle of july, i guess. it was wonderful. we never saw -- they had never seen any -- [inaudible] >> very good. >> we saw the economy in china. >> who was this? >> [inaudible] >> that's why you were there this time? >> i was there before -- >> but it was a teaching thing? >> yeah, yeah, right. a buddy of mine speaks mandarin, and we went places you wouldn't believe, walked in and said hello, anyway, doing good. >> yeah, yeah. we have to have lunch when you get back. >> please. >> thank you. see you around. >> look at this. >> how's it going?

>> is this the poet? >> this is the poet. >> he followed you down here and said that you are studying poetry. >> yeah. >> and i was amazed. i said how did her mom, you know, because when i was a philosophy major, my mom was like what kind of job do you get? >> my mother said i'm glad you're doing what you want. >> god bless your mom. by the way, he's terrific. he held my hand but the audio book, made the audio book work. >> great. >> you're relatively easy to work with. i had to -- i didn't need to hold your hand too much. you got rolling, you know, made it work. >> made it work. this is the editor of the hill, and it's my favorite newspaper. he's my favorite. thanks for coming. >> it's great, great.

congratulations on the book. [inaudible conversations] >> nice to meet you. we went to meet you at an event -- >> you know each other? you're neighbors? >> yeah. [inaudible conversations] >> i didn't know any of these connections, and i like all of these people. >> we met at an event -- [inaudible conversations] >> yeah, yeah, yeah. it was on a plane -- >> that's right. >> i was on the -- [inaudible conversations]

[inaudible conversations] who is this for? >> david meyer. >> who else would it be for. >> i didn't your kids or mom. >> do it for the kids, danny and alexa. >> danny and alexa? >> a-l-e-x-a. >> i never socialized with you. [inaudible conversations] >> how are you? >> i'm happy for you. >> well, thanks. you're kind to do this. >> that is so adorable. >> it's like meeting everybody. that's the deal. you get to be my age, and beautiful women say your son looks fantastic.

>> congratulations. >> again, thank you, both. >> what is being assembled here? >> you like them? >> i love them. >> this is a guy who knows me from the philadelphia -- and people cannot believe i know any of these -- >> i know. >> we shouldn't know them. >> i know; right? right? ..

>> when we were this is new really fun. >> this is a nice place, isn't it? >> i want you to know that when npr comes to us for a debate we say we will consider that but you need juan williams. >> i shouldn't have said but i just said. >> but he well, you know it, she will. [laughter] >> [inaudible conversations]

>> you know him? >> you know i've never even been in in new york firm. what >> thank you. >> how do you guys know each other to? all the connections now. >> you guys knew each other when h-1b for me. >> he woke me up the other morning. >> congratulations. >> plight rating. enough's enough is still from a player. what >> it's good to see you were. here we go. >> i will sign the book while

you do that with. >> i thought it was going to get a recorded. >> do you go by clifford or what cliff? >> cliff. >> sorry to hold you guys up what. you are very european. my sister lives in switzerland [inaudible] >> you know that when it comes to real journalism this man is the standard. >> he just wants more air time on the panel of fox news sunday. >> it's very hard for him. [laughter] >> jury well at nudging him. >> no, she nudges me telling me.

>> it wouldn't be why is. >> congratulations. we are so excited for you. [inaudible] >> your hand kind of gets a little nom han, right? >> i wrote a book and started giving these long things that is the [inaudible] [laughter] >> look at this.

thank you. >> i said friends, colleagues and fellow authors. >> there you go. thanks for taking the time. islamic the fact that you went screaming off and back because he forgot something at home. >> i should have forgotten that. nice turn out so. >> thank you. so do why do steven and stephanie? >> okay >> you are both journalists and? >> yes.

>> may i have your attention, please we have a quick couple of words in the alcoves of this wonderful place to the front. thank you jury much. it is an honor to host this event tonight for our good friend and colleague juan williams. i travel the country sometimes talking to different groups and i get to questions most often, one, is charles that brilliant? [laughter] and number two, what is juan williams like? and i tell them he's a fantastic guy. this guy, a lot of people say

you have a good deal, everything works out. it was perfect. when i was around him that week and he was not a happy camper. this is a tough thing to go through and there was a lot of pain involved. so i saw the character and i am really proud of the way you handled it. on the panel, the older panel, sometimes it gets even, sometimes it gets interesting exchanges but no matter your ideology you respect the discussion that happens to the table so i assembled a panel here. >> will get this. [laughter] you have this thing on friday called the lightning round and it's supposed to be very quick. you go down the panel on a certain topic and it's supposed to be quick, sometimes it's not that quick. not that lightning.

[inaudible] [laughter] >> as you can tell. first i want to thank upon because every time i get a speech, juan provides the best line of the night. i always start by saying i'm happy to be here and to the association, then i say but truth be told i'm happy to be where juan williams can't interrupt me. [laughter] >> and i make faces at you, too. >> the other thing he's been

such a good friend over the years i'm going to say something here that i've been preparing for years to say on the air but life been holding back after you've made your presentation you say so much effort, so little time. [laughter] when you hear it you know that it is not spontaneous >> the one thing i do want to say is true all the years we've been together on fox i deeply admired him above all for his courage. he has written and said and stood for things that are not popular in many of the circles in which he lives and works and he started with amazing colleagues [inaudible]

also was zero for shaming me and to produce one seventh of yours, but i want to congratulate you both, thank you for your your friendship and saying what an extraordinary. >> thank you. [applause] estimate i want to point out that this is a lightning round tonight. [laughter] >> just a secret on the panel whenever the time is running short i stick my arm out like this and that's the signal that you have 30 seconds left, drive it quickly and when i grabbed the table really hard that's 15 seconds. when i'm leaning in that's let's go we have to hit the commercial my producer is always in my year so we are back.

lightning round, juan williams. >> i will be fairly short. in that sense a would be a lot like the panel. i also want to take just a second to congratulate juan for his book. it's a tremendous accomplishment and everybody knows i think the basics of the story behind what has happened here that we unfold in this narrative and it is an exceptional story, and again, just to underscore what was said having spent time in about a three hour dinner in new york city as it was unfolding it is i think easy for those of us to read this at some detachment and think of it as a story is interesting to see what's happened here but at times this was a truly difficult thing for juan to go through and to continue to show up on the panel

and do the job that he does so well i think is truly a test to the kind of guy that he is. i would say one thing very briefly. the first time i actually met juan is when we were going to be giving special together. i don't know if it was the state of the union or something that we had some times we went and had lunch together that day, and again i was about a three hour lunch and we spent the entire time talking and went from the sort of surface issues to deeper issues to keep personal family issues to, you know, kind of philosophy and life issues and the thing that impressed me the most and this is why i think that he is so effective of what he does is that he's a listener. we could tell he was listening a deeply interested the entire time and he was more interested in what i was singing than what he was offering me and that is the market a great reporter. [applause]

>> before i pass the microphone over to juan, he has something that i want, he has an emmy, did you know that? >> the seven books charles mentioned, our eyes on the prize, thurgood marshall, this far wife, i will find a way or make one, my soul looks back in wonder, the sony leaders, détente movements and the culture of the failure to undermine black america and we can do about it. that's a lot and he's different washington spectacular the last decades. we are privileged to have you on our team, and i will tell you that on the panel you will never be muzzled. [laughter] >> thank you. juan williams, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] >> thank you and thanks to you and amy for putting this on.

we really appreciate it and we are always in your debt for being such a good friend, and to charles and steve, you know, i've been -- i've worked of the "washington post," cnn, a fort at npr, i've worked at the hill, these guys are the best and i am grateful to have you as my colleagues so thank you very much. and i wanted to also say thank you to ed rogers and to sheldon come here tonight, and hugo gordon who is here tonight. steve just touched on this briefly, but there was a moment back then when i thought that my career was over, and i thought, you know, a career that had taken many years to build is going down the tubes fast, and today many people felt we are

going to a book signing which you are really here for a celebration. i don't know if the had a celebration at the end of those survivors tv shows the this is what it feels like to me like i got my head back above the waves. i'm standing. and you can't get to that point without people who care about you, people who love you and to key was idf tell you when you're wrong and how to deal with the situation and get some council. so many of you in the room tonight are those people for me, i'm high friends and those of you that our journalists, you know how tenuous our profession is and how things go up and down, 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 express thanks to my friends and family and my wife, my son, tony. [applause] about, you know, you guys are the best and stood by me through

the storm and have been a light by my side. thank god. [applause] >> nist mekouar de come chris? i love the shoes. >> thank you. >> [inaudible] >> the last few years of his life we want to do something or we've traumatized the debates between him and like stokely carmichael and ed how word. >> so much to that.

this began to talk about honest debate may be having moderate. >> we will be in touch. >> how long have we known each other. >> just about 30 years? >> is it 30? that's true, yeah. >> 1982, almost. the funny thing is we are still young. >> i hope you feel that way. sometimes my back tells me otherwise. >> don't talk about the back. my back hurts when i do the dishes. >> nice to see you. this is your wife? how are you? too i'm also a reagan's real estate agent. >> they said you're not going to believe this. >> i was actually at the house

the day that you were two ringgit on the final tour and i stopped to say hello and -- >> you were so shocked what she was paying for this house. >> no, no, i saw it. [laughter] >> congratulations. >> i wrote the book to help pay for the house. [laughter] thanks for stopping buy >> what's up, man? how are you? >> how are you doing? a book and reagan is coming back. >> that's pretty good is this to paul e. and mindy? >> sure. we will get another. they cut off at two of them to be disconnected the really? >> no, i'm just kidding.

>> [inaudible conversations] >> it's nice to meet you. how is your internship going? how old are you? >> 17. >> wow, you are in a great spot. waiting for this book so long. >> here is the real deal. my hero. >> [inaudible]

he says hi. [inaudible] >> hey, thanks for coming over. >> nice to meet you. >> it never gets out of your book. >> no, it doesn't. [laughter] >> does this germinate before the big incident? >> the incident is really just the first chapter. the rest of the book is how difficult it is to say what is on your mind in this country and have an honest debate because of your body gets locked in one side or the other.

>> eagles and titans. in normal conversations [inaudible conversations] >> what a nice evening. >> i'm glad you made it. >> i'm glad to be here. my son was cleaning out his closet to night. i came down the stairs and he was studying and had his eye bookmark in the eyes on the prize. he didn't know i was even cummingtonite half of

>> show him this description, she will get a kick out of it. >> thank you very much. >> thanks for taking the time. >> my pleasure. >> i thought you were out of town. >> that's tomorrow >> i want my wife to come around here and get a picture. i want this to go on facebook. [laughter] >> vara this. >> all right. get him while he's signing so you know you got a good picture. we just got on facebook about a week ago. [inaudible conversations] i didn't realize your seventh

book, amazing. islamic you were ahead of your time. what was the book on the civil rights committee, the was late 80's? >> late 80's, i is on the prize, and then the justice marshall biography was late nineties, and then enough's was -- >> it was ahead of its time, too. >> i got a lot of nonsense about that. >> it takes some to write it. >> look, it's you. it means a lot that you showed up. akaka about real journalists, this is the real deal, scott simon. >> he's the real deal. i hope he signs a book for my daughter. one for me and carol blease and one for each alisa. >> tell me how to spell caroline

>> carolina with a french accent. >> to find out who your friends are and it turns out i have some friends. >> you sure do. extraordinary. >> thanks. islamic my pleasure >> dr. martin luther king was not a president of the united states. at no time in his life did he hold public office. he wasn't a hero of the foreign war. he never had much money. but while he lived, she was reviled at least as much as he was celebrated. by his own accounts, she was a man frequently wracked with

doubt. a man not without flaws, who like moses before him more than once questioned why he hadn't chosen for such arduous task, the task of leading people to freedom. the task of healing the festering wounds of the nation's original sin. >> im ashley kincaid. >> how are you? >> i have some associates here i would like to introduce to you. we are with the future educator's and these are the

student officers and they are here in d.c.. >> tell me where you're from. >> to go ahead. >> i from newark new jersey. >> i was born in newark and jersey, the was a long time ago. >> ohio close to lima about 70 miles from columbus. >> what's the town? >> alger. >> one of my kids went to kenyan from toledo during upc finton there and trying to work things out in terms of teacher evaluation. where are you from? >> i go to the high school in new jersey. ecclestone river. it's right on the shore of the county. >> so you know that you are convinced you are going to be

teaching? >> convinced. why? >> i had so many and 20 teachers in my life and according to the studio and to the influential teacher. >> you know, you're smart, you're going to be able to make a lot more money. you know that. >> but for me it's not about the money. >> right now i think schools have to change, but because the world has changed. what about ford you? >> becoming a teacher is something i -- >> do you have parents or family or -- family and education that -- >> nope. >> they have a plan laid out, so -- >> what year are you in a high school? >> senior, junior, junior. >> cingular off to the fall. some of the college of new jersey.

the college of rutgers. each new jersey it used to be trent seat. islamic rutgers the state university? okay. that's cool. >> ohio state university. >> you mean in the ohio state university? [laughter] you don't have to decide for a while. that is pretty cool. they say the teachers are changing. they say that now -- i was just talking to a guy that teaches training in maryland they won't let him become an education major until after your sophomore year and you start in schools. you don't just stay at the university or college campus been used in the lot of time in the schools and that's important. in other countries, south korea, would be a teacher in training after the first year but

watching and doing practiced in teaching to see if they really have what it takes. that's great. it's terrific you are here. i would offer you a glass of wine but -- [laughter] skinhead that's terrific. nice to meet you all. >> nice to meet you. >> i will point you out when i say something. spec i was e-mail and and she said to say one thing to you national award. islamic are you a fan? canada and the chairman. >> she said of the book and how come i didn't -- i had gone to some of the earlier meetings --

you know this guy. >> but i said i never got around to it. i'm a huge admirer of linda and remain so i guess it's something i've got to do. >> deborah thomas >> congratulations on this mckibben. >> the previous book was a clunker but -- it disappeared, it was a doorstop, this one is a pretty good book. >> listen to other people and i sat and listened read this. i don't understand, read it any

way. >> in my riding days i used to write for members of congress can't remember the stuff is forget about it, they can't do it. so, you told that with stories. >> it's got some stories in their. >> thank you for all your doing. >> what did you think? was it okay? >> it's not be spoken enough to especially in our state there is the achievement get. minnesotans 38 in 2003 and now we are 49. [inaudible] if you're ever in minneapolis come and see less. >> it's gotten that far?

>> [inaudible] >> 89% of the mill's graduate and 29% of the populace. your book helps, you help. thank you. i appreciate everything. >> congratulations on your book. >> thank you. >> reading what you write from time to time. estimate of thank you very much. >> you are still making waves and -- you are still in trouble there. >> no kidding. >> it seems like every once in awhile we get two steps forward and take two steps back or sometimes three steps back. >> my perspective is mostly the work can be done in of the

successful systems and it gets me upset because the dominant themes in the united states are not reflected not all. >> and they have that meeting the 16 countries. the only reason we were there is we were the host read we didn't qualify the wouldn't let me in when i heard from jim kelly and others the attitude was what are you doing here who? [inaudible] >> taken as a whole, you look at the principles that were successful and he doesn't know whether we are talking about asia or europe in the successful

systems. >> the specific strategies they use the [inaudible] [applause] >> my role is to introduce a new video of someone i know you will know what's coming and he will say something is the will tell the story of johns tremendous contributions and his passion, the impact he's had over the years but let me say that it's been a privilege to regularly visit with him and the staff to see the kind of caring of incredible journalistic

standards and quality that they've applied to every single tasked they set out to do. i also want to tell you that i felt i needed everything done ever done, but when i read this book and i realized i didn't notice and his book like many of his video pieces really worth thought-provoking even though i know most of you in the room are experts at education, i think you will find some of his background information and also some of his questions in the way that he presents the context to be really do very informative and thought-provoking so i encourage you to buy a lot of the books and send them to your friends or give them to your colleagues at work because here we are public television, upstream again but the sale of the book helps to fund the enterprise for continuing when john's important work.

with that, i'm sure that if the general could have been here tonight with his longtime colleague and partner and public television he would have done so but he did the next best thing which is create this video. so enjoy. ♪ >> good evening. i'm jim lehrer. in the news this evening, john merkel, 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's been at it for a long time. john is the only reporter to have ever interviewed every u.s. secretary of education often for this program. in his career he has learned how to get through the doors close to others. >> the bottom line is i don't believe you were going to be the

leader who is going to take this school in the direction we need to go in and have the highest expectations for the kids. i am commanding your principal should now. >> in the late 1980's he talked his way inside of the college admissions process, a first for any reporter. >> she's got an a- in english, be - and french, b plus in psychology and an a in bible one. it's a very strong record. >> i think maybe the most difficult thing is when an advocate actually comes up in the office and says why did you do this to me? jongh can be confrontational as he was with this union leader in philadelphia. >> you're asking can you evaluate a teacher on the performance of the students. no, you cannot. >> you can not evaluate the

teacher on the performance of his or her students? >> right. >> john was the first to expose have a nonprofit organization for children with adt was secretly receiving money from the makers of ritalin. >> you will see that as a conflict of interest taking money from drug companies? >> we see it is a responsibility of the drug company to give us that money. >> he also knows how to hang back and let the story revealed itself. >> the next word will be strenuous. strenuous is spelled s-t-r-e-n-o-u-s. strenuous. that is not how strenuous is spelled his students may never know it. >> there are stories to be told and because he is having fun.

>> i have a deed to keep in a part of my town that has seen better days. ♪ because i've seen better days, too to read spent my life investigating schools looking for the best and exposing the worst. this is my story. ♪ >> mr. merrow, i presume? >> the influence of teachers is a good book and an important one. i'm happy to show our support. [applause] stila if this were the news hour would now be in a conversation with jim and i would be special. we should be grateful for that kind of quality journalism. it's now my pleasure to introduce another member of the board and i understand now at least in part why josh and john are close colleagues. john has made it his business

model ways to tell stories and keep us informed of education but to be a person who understands the content of what it takes to educate kids and i don't think we understand the substance of the issues about which they are reporting and we don't get the full picture. joshua kaufman is in the same vein. he's a lawyer who has worked on the computer and cyber side of the world and worked on the arts and entertainment and has a substantive knowledge and interest in each of these arenas. he worked ten years preparing computers and is working and has been involved in the arts and entertainment securing substance and content to his work as an attorney. we welcome you on behalf of the institute and to the party. [applause] >> it's a pleasure to introduce

john. john and i go back about 30 years and i felt john incorporate learning matters into the tax-exempt status. the first deals with npr on the 32nd sets the decided to market such and on the board i guess since its inception, and the when not in the education field my contributions have been more on the entertainment side of the business i've been so impressed with john over these years. it is a lot of people in the media, and the balance in the quality of what learning matters presents and has presented in over 30 years now is to be one of the most amazing things. ucc peace in learning matters and it is balanced, it's unlike

today where everything has an agenda. learning matters is both sides getting an opportunity to say your piece in their own words, in their own a matter. but he doesn't shy away from controversy. it doesn't matter. everybody's there and everybody gets a say. when we talk about quality we talked about peabody awards, in emmy awards. the work is top notch and there is nothing there on tv. there's nobody there at this, nobody knows this industry better than sean and he's in a position that just presents would defer the issue is in the community colleges if it is investors in california, if it is like the school sleuth it's wonderful talking about how to find a good school and all the obvious things are brought up. there are things like how many

cars are in the parking lot after 8:30, and it's that in-depth kind of look with no blinders come out of the box and learning matters has been there all these years and all the revenue by the way from what this goes to learning matters. he is donating 100% of the loyalties from this. this is not a book to lend to your friends. this is a book for you to buy and encourage your friends to go on amazon dhaka, and buy it. so all the revenues all of the royalties will go to learning matters. that being said, it is an incredible pleasure i recognize my good friend of, john merrow. [applause] >> thank you very much.

on behalf of learning matters, our energetic production company, i express my gratitude for you folks been here and i want to say just a quick word about the three folks you just heard from. mardy you know as the community's schools and the leadership and he is a big deal but when he goes home he is not that big a deal. his wife is a powerhouse, their daughter, molly, is an up-and-coming an already excellent film maker so to be friends to what mardy is like winning the trifecta. you are a lucky man as well as the special friend, josh has been as he set a personal friend and our attorney for 40 years a founding member of the board.

he has gotten me out of trouble more than once but more important than that he's kept me from getting into trouble, which is actually more important. what was the most recent he sold our footage him for that disgraceful documentary waiting for superman but anyway i hope we will be friends another 40 years. you look like he will make it, i don't know if i will. sandy welch is a leader of learning matters, and she has steered us through some incredible times when she took over as the chair as our founding chair george william roe penalty lost a battle with cancer and then inherited that job just as the worst recession

since the depression. we are not true that part yet but i just want to say a couple of words about the book i hope he will then join. first, strenuous. that came from a documentary about a teacher's shortage and we were not trying to embarrass that young man but if you watch a whole documentary you discover he's a junior high school physical the education teacher and he's been told by his superintendent who's also the principal in georgia that he has to go teach high school english, high school math and history. you may have noticed the students and that is a common story. at the time georgia had a loophole that allowed a teacher of to 49% of stuff he or she had never studied so we went to 50%

you were actually out of the field. the sense closed the loophole somewhat but it's a disgrace and that guy is a nice and man and he didn't deserve come he was put in a position he could not succeed and teachers generally have an attitude put me in, coach, for whatever reason, and he would have lost his job but it's a statement about how we treat teachers and our kids. i wrote this book as this war was heating up, this ongoing war fighting over ten years seniority merit pay and so on. in the book i talk about the two camps. there is one which says it's a matter of defining the problem, and this one says the problem is people. we just need better people.

everything would be solved. now that has firepower, it has waiting for superman, it has education nation which is a clause in a journalistic exercise which is heavily weighted towards charter schools and it has teach for america and a lot of the venture capitalist hedge fund guy is supporting it. so all the other side there is ghanian with a megaphone and the teachers' unions and a few other people but it is an unfair fight so, if the other side says know it is not a matter of better people with is a 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. no other profession you can dream of has that rate and it matters because this is a country with 311 million people and 3.21 million out of every 100 americans is a public-school teacher. if you add up all of the accountants and lawyers and doctors, higher at teachers etc, we have more teachers than all those people put together it really does matter. there's a huge amount guilaume in the profession. in 1987 the modal, the median means, notice the most common. in 1987 the most mobile for the years of experience was 15 years. the more teachers have been teaching 15 years than any other 14, 12, etc.. what do you suppose the mode is

now? 2007 data? >> somebody was here. >> we have more first-year teachers than any other time and i see the shawls drop. there is also a huge opportunity and there are astounding things going on in education. but if he thinks the job is to make teaching a better job, the problem there is that there is a trade union definition of a better job. how leaped can you get there in the morning, how soon can you leave after 3:00, how many days in advance as a principal have to ask permission? it's a narrow trade union definition that unions negotiate and school boards agreed to sell you can't just leave last unions because some school boards find this a silly contrast. so, the better job, better people battle these.

the point of this book is this is the last war, it is irrelevant. absolutely irrelevant. how many of you in this room are over the age of 27? [laughter] so am i.. [laughter] >> okay, if you are over the age of 27, he went to school because that's where they kept the knowledge. think about it. the knowledge was and the textbooks, in the encyclopedia, in the teacher's hand. that is simply not true today. now the information is everywhere. our schools remain answer factories, these regurgitation education stuff when we ought to be helping their kids to learn how to formulate questions on how to turn information into 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] think about it. think about it. so we should be helping our kids formulate questions. how do you know that? how do you simply -- then we want them to choose the so of course we are teaching values. so, there were three reasons if you are over 27, three reasons he went to school. one is that where they kept the knowledge of the second socialization, let's learn to get along together, you're a different color, okay, we are going to get along. there is an application for that today, right? [laughter] i say it likely but in fact there is. it's like our kids are on steroids, they're socializing, 14-years-old socializing with a bunch of people she thinks are

14. they might be authority-year-old congressman. [laughter] so we have to teach our kids about of the power of this technology and the power to abuse this technology about sexting and all that. the kafta drm the illiterate. the third reason we went to school, that is custodial care. we still need school, the other places to send our kids and grandkids to keep them off the streets and keep them safe, but if the education that is provided is merely this regurgitation education, then it's not quite meaningless but it's close the schools in fact become dangerous places because the children are smart. they have high energy and if it's not used purposefully and positively it will be used, i guarantee it will be used negatively and i can see.

you've heard of cyber bullying that's really just child abuse by children. if you want to call it what it is so the stakes are high at this time. the challenge is to transform -- the schools aren't going to go away. the charter schools are not the answer as wonderful as many of them are, they are 5%. home-schooled -- our children are going to go to public school, so we need schools that become -- their places where children learn to ask questions. they learn there is no question to be afraid of, they learn to ask why. how do you know that, how do you know that you know that? inquiry means project based learning and turning around so we don't put teachers in the position of that young man. it means ways to engage kids and get rid of these answer

factories in this regurgitation education. i hope he will read the book. i think there are some answers in there. i think it is absolutely vital that there be a force to counter this attack that is going on as if the problem is just the people and to make a better job so that the men and women will find we had better people right there all along we just need to take away some of the struggle and redefine what we are doing in the transfer of this way. i hope he will read the book but in any case thank you for being here. [applause] ♪

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>> next, book tv attended a book party for syndicated columnist armstrong williams for his boov bookst title reawakening virtues restoring what makes america great. he greeted guests and signed thb book said the party held in washington, d.c..washin >> book tv is a washington, d.cd home of marty and grace bender

for the columnist armstrong williams 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 tawaken the vals of wher .. 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 understand when we talk about the debt ceiling. we spend more than mirren and buy things we cannot afford and don't want to make sacrifices. so accumulating so much debt over the last two and a half years week keep spending and spending and revenues cannot keep up. we have to get back to fiscal responsibility. just like the credit-cardit the interest-rate at some y time you have to pay thatyo off zero or restructure debt or you go bankrupt. what we have to do is return to this goal discipline. a lot of this started ino

real estate everybody thought owning a home was a u right to insert a system of privilege. the the government is in a financial rights crisis be on the verge of bankruptcy. talked-about greece although the way the united states to return t ro solvency and the prosperity we wants had.in >> finally, ? >> new chapter -- new chapter publishers, chris is my editor. sometimes be invests so much in our opinion we did not realize and we are a buyer.

i did not one day conservative editor. i wanted to be challenged. but it larry kramer in fact, with judicial watch thought we did not have much in common. when i told him the book wanted to write a cannot be political and just beat up on the democrats. to be fair that you were doing that for so long. i did now realize what a challenge it was for me. how i was biased that was wrestling with myself with the integrity people could

see it is fair. so new chapter publishing was a publishing and reawakened. >> we're at up book party for armstrong williams. go enjoy your party. doing?are you you made it? you got it email. oh my god. how were you doing? >> [laughter] >> i was online. one williams i was very intrigued by that article. i get stuck and i never knew the story.

i thought i have to invite tim him to my book party. i sent him an e-mail but he never responded. then you always agonize. you just have to let it go. >> what precipitated? >> there is so much i want to say that then you start to reclaim yourself. once you reclaim your virtue >> even people who don't

like you like the book. [laughter] just the virtues of capitalism and is saving. the managing editor -- editor. they did not tell me you were confirmed. where do live? >> i am bid new york. i will be at the new york party as well. >> how do you know, him? >> he is my lawyers and nikecl said the on the lookout.oo so what brings you do dc? >> we are kicking off an art collection. >> you should talk to our

coast. he is a huge into art. you know, salinger? that is his deal. that is right for grow lee testified against a woman who was selling her art. i read that. >> we it just meeting with friends and clients. >> i appreciate you coming. i want to make sure everybody gets a copy of theke book.k you have to read the book. [laughter] >> absolutely. >> guy just kicked off of book party and then we go from their. book parties and books have

changed so much since my first book. the publisher would do everything propose setting up the book party, said of the interview, basically now it is a partnership. they publish the book but there is so much you have to do. publishing is not what it used to be. this is a first look at covered tin in 16 years. i am not like thosi'ew people who can turn of book out every year. i wanted to reawaken my own virtue.ut w but to get it done is eight huge task. >> i would like to thank you for coming to our home tonight.

my husband and i are happy to have you in our home tonight floor armstrong williams book signing. net armstrong a number of years ago alphonso jackson was a terrie at the time weo became instant friends in still are today.ong is philosophical i have some issued -- issues with some of his comments. [laughter] i will not elaborate. but important thing that makes me realize he had

something important to say is we have a great country. we really were a great and we are a great. but we ought are broke somewhere along the line. but it needs to be fixed it needs to be fixed with friends and family.u i was telling armstrong today that it makes me very sad to realize how many kids today are in families that mothers are working because they have to work.oth when i grow up the on the mother's negative of were were professional doctors or lawyers or nurses but theyio have to work to put food on the table.a those that are well educatedfood because those wanted to

work. tha so the kids are struggling for their identity. it is a whole generation that is lost. and armstrong touches on that. i may not agree with everything but i do agree we are a great country that we have lost our confidence and thg'ved to get it back. families need to get back to being family is. [applause] would you like to say something? >> my co-host. >> thank you for coming out for this occasion.be

armstrong has been working on this book for a while and it is it an exciting project. it is not his first endeavor beyond blame leading us to a young victims armstrong and i have an opportunity to talk several times a week when i drive into work tond w discuss the issues of the day. most of the time he is right and the other he disagrees with me.gh [laughter]ghte but a book about virtues is so timely in a time that we live right now. t they have a tendency to do

things are to manipulate theeri situation for their own gainer political gain. but it seems to be a part of beat an american that has been lost. in 18311 alexis de tocqueville who came to america in what was barely 50 years old or thew competing with europe.w we have to find out what is going on. so they were blown away they could go out to the mountain

and they knew amazing things. it'sad anybody finishing fifth or sixth grade was like a college graduate today. go look at the exit exam i doubt most college graduates today could pass it. not only was there the high academic standards but in the school they taught values. founding fathers said if you educated person you are creating a menace to society and we have seen many examples of that. but this book of armstrong has written addresses the issue on many levels and ise extraordinarily important for the time i am extremely

proud of this man. armstrong williams. [applause] >> an awkward place for me but i will make the most of it. [laughter] and i will do my best. to thank those for opening their home and there are four hosting the book party and to dr. person to makes time to be up part of this. is about being seen but theb business is about a goody go friend of mine.hree they're son over the last

three years if you call the office and hears the voice you hear his son. it is a real relationship. although they have stayed with me. it is important to emd get to to know people. 6:30 a.m. every morning is easy for me because 4:30 a.m. i am on the phone with my mother and brotheruse and sister. that is going on and over 15 years. i talk to my mother every day between 4:30 a.m. in 4:45 a.m. because i get to know who they are.so sometimes you do not know

your own relatives that you are so disconnected i did that know that about my brother. i am in constant contact. that was part of my upbringing to communicate. it is nothing for me to call you at 5:00 a.m. because i have been up so long. a surge in has gifted hands i want to talk to him so i respect the virtue of timet .w, surely, she has been with me one of my main editors on the book and a veryn blessing. [applause] and i have been retained this book almost two years.ith

he will be seen today. [laughter] and very helpful with the editing process. and these are the people who work with real with last three years to make it possible. >> i am always responsible. [laughter] use of the people that makej it possible. thank you. i would introduce you to my good friend. let me tell you this prep ever betty remembers nol

child left behind from 2004. imus has said something to awaken his virtue of five a very tumultuous year in my life. oh my god. m [laughter] angela? follow the spirit of the dog., yo obviously i had my moment in the ballet and i've lost my way of life and the interest in my business but never in my friends. day dug-in and hung in there with me. you find out who your friends are.

we have known each other 30 years and been real-estate class together got our license together. and my relationships never change. what it says about you. i lost a lot of money and b how many columns are right people believe i have noi credibility because i sold myself out withoutns disclosing it. no matter how much god gives you or your restore yourself to a better place, you still have to pay theer price fort your shortcomings. that never goes away. just because you are forgiven you never stop paying that it is okay.at

life goes on. just keep living and hold your head up high. you have to keep going. one cinderblock added time. i realize comment i used to be sooul busy and did is so easy to read about somebodybo else but i woke up and the something reawaken to me. it let me know everythingl would be alright but i had to reawaken my own for two. virtue of truth and honesty and integrity andh capitalism. the hardesta work you will do 24 hours a day is work on yourself..r to

trying to be good. that is not easy. that is why you look at everybody else and not yourself. but what i learned is the more i work on myself the better the world around me becomes and it starts with you. i did not want to ride a political book to bash the democrats for car was tired of that. wanted to write a book of virtues because they are not black or white or liberal or republican there the universal truth. we found a publisher out of sarasota florida. i wanted a liberal editor. i sought him out. i didn't realize how bias i was in my political ideology that i could not even tell you the truth it took me

eight months just to work out my own issues to be fair. we are so bogged down of being a democrat or republican and that we have no idea what it takes to get to the truth. it took me almost one year to get to the truth but they made me see the light. then i see the things in terms of truth and honesty the issues with the republican party byi e a goodan empower.be but the conclusion i came to is the same. in order for the country to get back we have to giverder back to the virtue of saving and capitalism. if you want to know what is wrong with the country with the debt crisis, look into your own home, people spend what they don't have.

your home is like century. corporation. mother and father, children, no revenues into the household for all of that corporate debt major debt. you have two sets of budget. they will deal with you for almost 18 years 3-1/2 to calculate that. the mention it continues to come .inue you make 100-2000 but spentyo 250,000 and say i am over leverage i need to increase my debt ceiling can i get the additional $500,000? i will pay itea off but do that 10 over 15 years.e i imagine what will happen.in you will go bankrupt.ll,

you will lose your home in impact everything. especially your kids. america is living beyond their means. they don't want to sacrifice. maybe i should sacrifice. maybe i should do something different. this is easy for me to criticize but it reflects who we are. t and the money and materialism hasng replaced god in our lives but we have toan get back to the virtue thatv we have to find time to be alone with god. we find time to be aloneo with our money in our choiceo we have to find time to be alone with our creator so we can read define who we are.

virtue and honesty and hard work. we know how to take care of our neighbor. it is not the issue of the rich. but there is a huge percentage that do not pay taxes.hesth i believe in a virtue that everybody should pay the same with 10 percent across the board. everybody should have skin m in the game.us fad is the way it is. but not everybody is pulling their weight. there has to be shared i sacrifice. everybody will suffer.s t nobody is left of unscathed as we go through the tough times but you have to make a sacrifice whether entitlement programs or the pentagon or wasteful spending in congress.

they are the same. they are drunken sailors. and ultimately they pay the price they get themselves out of debt. you cannot increase the deficit from 10 trillion yen 15 trillion you cannot do it. and then foreign countries own our debt. i believe thisil. he manage thennor household the way bandaget yours america of would be a better place.anag what do i mean by savings'? hav when the bill comes forget that it was three weeks late you pay it immediately.w put something aside prevailely. never know when hard timesf mo are coming you cannot act

like every day is of blessing. you have got to learn to save money. you never know when your storm will hit or a medical crisis or a crisis with your children. have financial discipline. as three talk about the crisis, it is not the end of the world. my curses was never child left behind.en o i cannot tell you why god has blessed me.. everybody is different.. not everybody bonds this same thing. we may be created equal but do not have the same choices there is a price that you pay i give back to the church.n't children are much better when they haveol a mother and father. father is a of luxury you're kidding yourself.n