do have a ways that we could help out? >> obviously not everyone is excited to go downtown to polling places on election day beco .. been made it out today are. also a mess. marketers will now use voter registration lists. it will lose money. i think you can also help with absentee ballots could be. very sophisticated. a very close assembly election. you could vote per absentee. there will send an absentee

ballot even if you're not say. you will always vote absentee. well, that list is public. in one very close to a legislative election when candid supporters were very clever. the listeners of p-vlic, so they went and get the list and discovered which belong to a certain local party. the only do this for that political party. they fill the new voter registration cards and sentiment to the office for the elections. the affirmation of the car was identical to that on the card in the p-vlic record except the signature was an eligible scroll on the application. so this registration replace the original registration and the recoe fs. then the absentee clollot comes in and the $7 an hour minimum wage temporary. >> was selected this and make sure that the ballot as a pet system well, gee, this is a

signatamere that does not come close. i left turn out. the threat of a 250 of these. it was found out by accident a few weeks later after the election had been certified. the candid whose supporters a dennis had one buy less than 200 votes. the election was stolen a from under them. not by adding fraudulent votes but by subtract a legit%date votes. if someone had quizzed the officials and observe the process from afar that might have been able to uncover. there is a lot that you can do to make samere that the processs conducted in an honest and fair and open way. one more? thank you. >> i have a couple of questions. they are related. in maine we tried to pass some better idea was recenic.y but failed. students, there is no residency

requirements to prove that your residence so students from other states can vote in our state elections. but there is nothing to say that they're not voting at home as well. how do you comclot that? and also, related, our secretary of state told the students that if they wanted to vote in oamer state that they could get driver's licenses and changed their aatioress and the re a blicans are saying, you don't want them to do that because that will give them in state ti'tion and back taxes will go up to support our universisc. >> well, first of all, the question of institution i think that there should be a t%de when you have to be an actr residence before you qualify for in-state tuition for his the way to handle that. i want students to vote, but i only want to vote once in a place with actr let them both there.

the parents live other status, spend all summehe maybe there. if you're voting twice amended think there was a case that is prd then this, we have to prosecute some of those people. we need to do more of that, you will we uncd ther we don't to gt seriously. this happens. the former city clerk in charge of elections was indicted on voter fraud. the current election supe subisr in a florida county was invited -- indebted for voter fraud. he's the person in cha. wee of the elections. then the official in mississippi was sent to prison for voting for the names of 15 dead people often its officials to do this and we don't take it that seriouell,y as rigid. my view is with s%rdents of

course we want you to vote, but there should be clear and fast rules that indicate where you actually are living. one last one? >> matt johnson, a resident of california, several absentee. requires you to have photo id. what is the same people a stateo make it so hard to block of the voter i.d. laws. just a vote you have to show i h when they make your show i detested by simple medication frantic. >> i'm awill says astonished tht people like 35 years old up to show id to buy cigarettes or alcohol in some places. yet, we don't do it for voting which is so critical. it's bnot byarre. it makes me think that maybe something is happening behind the election camerve we don't kw about.

they don't want that to stop because it and that is a political interest. it is bizarre that the same bureaucrats that impose data idealize and bsteding all these consumer products don't want that for the fundamental issue of voting. the s a valid interest of the state. thirsc states have some form of >> ii'rement. a% of the american people support this. it strikes me as bnot byarre. youh now, rhode island, a democratic state with a demofatic legisla% rre passed it the other side the law. the sponsor was the only. that african-american speaker. voter fraud in the district constituents were complaining about and the machine was bstedg the election again. sometimes the biggest victims of this are minority people living in machine areas where the

elections are constantly sell enough among the. author or book tight on the search bar on the upper left side of the page and click search. you can also share anything you see on booktv.org easily by clicking share on the upper left side of the page and selecting the format. booktv extremes live every weekend. booktv.org. from the national constitution center in philadelphia kevin a writer if "the daily show with jon stewart" presents his thoughts on the u.s. constitution. this is about 45 minutes. [applause]

it is far too appropriate. >> i think they were applauding for me. >> okay. >> good evening. thank you so much. it's nice to see all of you here tonight. and ens specially since we're having a little bit of fun on holiday weekend. kevin, we're here to talk about your book. the thought may be the way to start off is to show everyone the book trailer. figure how why it is you wrote the book in the first place. can we have the trailer? who wrote the constitution in would you please receipt the constitution. have you ever read the constitution? >> no. >> what's your favorite part? >> i like the -- around the edge. i like that the sort of, like, the old coffee stained. >> who wrote the constitution? >> george madison. >> that's not a person. [laughter]

>> george washington? >> that is a person, but that is incorrect. >> george jefferson. [laughter] >> incorrect. >> have you read the constitution? >> no. but i did see the movie. >> there is no movie. spoiler alert. all right. that's why i rewrote the constitution. [laughter] good even everybody. thanks. that explain it is all. actually, we made -- that is the tip of the iceberg. in my research of the book my me search. forgive me. she said i won emmys for that kind of word play. i found out that yes more american teens can name the three stooges more than the three branches of the

government. he actually had brothers. but they weren't funny, necessarily. look, we can keep going. i know, i adopt mean to common deer. you may remember, pretty famously a few years ago no less than congressman john boehner held up a copy of the pocket constitution and said to the world, i stand here with the founders we hold these truths self-evident. that's the second sentence. i i'd correct no one. my blind spots i'm sure before i

started the project was as board as anyone. you u probably could have convinced me years back if i began i would had said it was the best of times it was the worst of times. thank you for being here. it's good to see you or so many friendly faces out here. it's possible for someone to rewrite the constitution is humbled i am humbled. i understand. and i guess i would merely encourage you not to think of it as a $5 service charge or fee or penalty. but think it as a tax. yes. the front row is way ahead of me on that. >> we have sharp ones down here. >> thank you for that. i count on you later, just so

you know. >> what did you learn? >> what surprised you the most? >> beyond the ignorance of the constitution this which is unfortunate. i do get out the question reread the constitution. perhaps what other people have said which is well, everyone else is rewriting the constitution. why not me, my turn. no fair. so everyone said there ought to be a law. there's a whole new set of laws. beyond that i know i said it a few times but it bears repeating. i have no choice but to rewrite the constitution. because no less than thomas jefferson told me i had to. he told my had to. he said, z you may know, every constitution naturally expires at the end of 19 years. because in his math 19 years was

a generation. by his math, our constitution, has been naturally expired for over two century, dead an exparrot as you might say. i'm feeling bad i'm getting to it now. it should have been we're rewritten 11 times. i owe an you apology. there's something that has happened in the last few months that actually gave me put a stamp on my work and said you did the right thing. to some disagree i felt it needed a little bit of us. listy recently as we have seen even though people cozy up to it and the reasons we site it. sometimes use it as a political battle and a weapon in the political battle. it felt like it needed publicity . -- use the american constitution as a model. i was surprised to see that.

she's known for protecting every clause of it. and but the truth of the matter is, she was just saying something that has been happening. because as we may know, 25 years ago, 94% of american constitutions hads you'd the american constitution at least in part to base their constitutions on. unfortunately, the last 25 years, seems like none of them have. that's what is certainly the study came out in the nyu law review suggested. they look instead to things like south africa, and to -- this is especially -- canada. right. yes, because in their estimation those constitutions do more service to things like human rights, as they say it. and something called the -- i want to make sure i'm getting it right. environment. yes. so that's why they look to, yeah, so. . >> this has been a teem of some of the interviews you've given about the book and you if on our

blog this week we're talking about why it needs to be rewritten. in do song so you compare yourself to the chief justice. would you explain that? >> i compare myself to him? >> i don't recall what i said about the chief justice. i remember going to justice ska lea. >> you said in the open letter to the chief. >> yes. forgive me, right. i basically said he re assure. it was a large leap. i recognize that. that's certainly true. fascinating gentleman. now obviously i wanted to meet with him because i thought really, who on the face of the planet let alone in the country would be most amenable to page

one rewrite of the constitution? [laughter] and would be the man woo devoted the entire career to protecting every clause feature, sentence, punctuation and everything on it. to my surprise, to my amazement, to my, you know, great glee, he agreed to meet with he. we met at the national gallery and had lunch. question in fact, the satirist versus the jurist. to so to speak. a great fellow. and people know that. we talked many things constitutional but i knew at some point i had to go his bread and butter i had to address the judiciary and propose my changes to the supreme court, and as you might imagine as soon as i said the word let's talk about -- he picked up the board and said

don't do that to me. don't you dare change the lifetime the tenure. at least grandfather me in. i love my job. lifetime tenure is actually not in the constitution. the third article merely says the justices shall serve during good behavior. for a bunch of,s we presume it meant for life because they were reacted to kings in england would willie nilly remove judges from the bench. they thought let's go the other way. i can read the section, if i may about that particular meeting. >> please do. >> i think it might be how it went as you can imagine. by the way, this is my bock mark. so you to forgive me for that. i explained to you an difference between the actual language and how we interpreted it. i don't bother lecturing him in

on any of this after the 25 years of service as one of the top judges, he's been fully briefed. instead, i begin my cross-examine. how about you, i ask. how about me what? can you imagine just walking away i ask? of course i can he what scoffs but couldn't careless tone that implies he assume leave today if he just hadn't signed a two-year lease on the locker. like i said before i'm not firing on all eight cylinders it'll be time to go. how when you know when it is i ask? he looks me. i'll know. so you don't need some outside . >> i'm fully aware of the position. i'll know when i can't do if. what if i told you that someone said you're wrong about that.

someone even more powerful than you. and who is that? someone you know quited quite well. he look at me wondering if he could ask. it if it was a case, this is the moment i would stand slowly look back at the judge and call on the surprise witness. i might call the stand the current chief justice of the supreme court. if it were indeed of the drama the doors would fly open and john g. roberts jr. would head up the aisle. when he was a lawyer in the --

[inaudible] did not leave as long as they do now. and a principle one for many of the same ones trotted out. common place today he wrote. setting a term of -- reality through decades of ivory tower existence. it is indictment an life i have time tenure to ignore. as i finished explaining one thing is clear. is that so. roberts thought that have i outlawyered the longest serving justice of the supreme court? he thought that?

[inaudible] and eating lunch not arguing case law i'm temps to shot the prosecution rests. grab my stuff and leave. i don't. i stay. and his grin returns. well, he says? i doubt he does anymore. he has a good point. roberts doesn't think that anymore. but roberts himself was asked about the priest comment at the conformation hearing 2005. his speftd on the the issue has dissolve as a the law professor put it on the issue of lifetime tenure where one stands depends on where one sits. [laughter] the joke puts him on the offense. so are you going make me retire with the new constitution? , i mean, i've been here longer than fifteen years. oh. he's nonthe on attack. throwing he's on -- [inaudible]

authority to do so what exactly do you propose? i thought hoed never ask. inch simple i say your new article three. the judicial power of the united states should be vested in one supreme court and the judges should hold they're offices during good behavior. he seems confused. that's what article three says. not exactly i clarify. i dropped the you from behavior from make it more american. but otherwise that's article three. indeed it is, you your honor. indeed. [inaudible] surely a man who is schooled by the letter of the law would swear by the letter of in the law that is save one letter to which he owed his entire career. i was proud of the judicial

stuff. who determines good behavior is? good behavior i correct him. [laughter] thank you. heavies pronouncing the u. that's what i said. who gets to decide. i've anticipating the question. he listens closely. a body appointed by the president to determine when the justices are passing the good behavior test as revived by the new constitution. he gets what i'm aiming at. a supreme, supreme court he says with a laugh. evidently amused by the idea. i can tell he's not ruling it out. just one question, he says, i raise my chin and a allow it. yes? how long do they serve? [laughter] i hadn't thought of that. now what's great about him other than he was agreeable and game to play with me because he obviously i think knew i presume he was understanding the true intent of the book was to bring their attention back to the

source code of the constitution. take a look at it. read it. >> it's a the gateway drug to the constitution. >> thank you. exactly. what's great it's evidence in the section i realize it was long. the has a great sense of humor. i knew it. i had been told that. what i didn't know physical i -- until i started looking at it i had he is officially the funniest. how do i know? many years back, seven, saight the nighttimes reporting on this. they released a batch of transcripts and someone thought to look into it and count the number of times laughter was annotated by the steno graphicker and a by a 0 long shot he got the most. in fact, pretty funny he was twice as funny as briarer. 19 times funnier than justice ginsburg. yeah. now we don't now about clarence thomas.

[laughter] because as you know, he hadn't spoken much. not at all. it is possible that he is funny. always funny no matter what he says. he could be the patch adams of the supreme court. we're not sure. i have a rases right there. thank you very much. i felt it. i heard it it >> >> the book let's talk further about the book. justice go tons say the court is already rewriting the constitution. does he already render your book obsoleted. >> probably. yes, i used to think there's been a lot of rewrites to the constitution. pretty funny with there's a gentleman who has a great name they couldn't possibly make up. he's fascinating. even in some of the his decisions ski lea he has rewritten the constitution. he actually did the work of rewriting the actual amendment to say what he thought it mend

using the language and flipping it around. we can get into that. he's not alone in doing that either. there have been other rewrites in the constitution. this man essentially the serious version of any book. he was another colorful character. a member of fdr brain trust and had the delicious of grand injury in this book. he wanted to be taken seriously and spent the last three decades of his life writing 72 drafts of new constitution intending to be ratified and embraced bay nation. i don't think it worked. i'm not sure. but he is one of the people hat have done this before me. there are things in his eyes have rewritten the constitution. as we know, he prefer that not to be the case. he said the same thing about the constitution as thomas jerchson did. he said about the constitution in his words. it is dead. the difference between him and

t.j. he means dead as a compliment. he means a door at for what we know it meant at the time they wrote it. you know, which is a valid argument to make. it is one-half the argument against the living. >> you are here at the national constitution center. we're interested next year is the tenths anniversary. we're talking about a project crowd sorting the constitution and if we could rewrite it. you have opinions on this. >> i do. in fact, i do. now whey hope i have done with the book and i hope this is interesting as well as amusing, i try to actually get to the nub of the issue. try to point out what the debate has been about where people think it either has fallen short or lives up to what we want it to be. and so, the first 80% of each of these chapters i do actually, you know, as i say dig deep and try find out the issues.

granted, the last 20% is where any rather absurd solutions come into play. most of them are probably in the defensible but they are debatable and that's the point, i think. some were funny. we have the congress and the executive branch, one thing we know about congress. first of all we don't approve of it. it has an approval rating somewhere around bedbugs. [laughter] famously i believe it was tom coburn. when the approval rating was at the recent high of 14%, even tom cool burn said something like who are the 1 4% of the people who trust us? i'm not sure who they are. i'm told lipped sei graham will not admit he's a congressman if people don't recognize. it's funny. so we know don't approve of them. and we know that sometimes can't name our congressman. and so i make the solution that if we know it is -- it is warm. if we know that we want to

approve of our congressman and want to name our congressman, one solution is become congressman at birth. we have vested interest. interestingly even though i came up with the rather absurd soluti and explain idea there are a vir virtues to it. again the research and here and independents hall i learned that george washington himself spoke only a few times during the constitution. one of the times he spoke was right near the end and was the only time he waited on the matter of policy. i think we should change the number of representatives we have. the ratio of representation. instead of one out of 40,000. one out of 30,000. i thought, well, if he's going to tinker i'll tinker all the way to make it 1 to 1. as far as the executive branch. yes. what do we know about the executive branch? we revere george washington. one of the reasons reasons is presumed to be i think we all

want in someone who leads us at the president issue level which is something of reluctant sei. somebody stepping up and coming to the rescue so to speak. we kind of presume that few of them actually have that sense ability. george washington is one of them. we also know that in this day and age we want someone who is an average joe, we do. we often suggest that we want a president apparently who we can have a beer with or go to a barbecue. with. i suggested the only way we know the president would be truly reluctant and truly average would be to pick him or her randomly only if are the subset of people who did not show an interest in the job. i don't want the job. i'm like you, i'll do. it knew interestingly, i look another that and i think that's absurd. all right. fair. but then i also say only a few weeks ago, you have say, mitt romney who went out into the world and he was in vegas, i think it was the day he was meeting with donald trump and

said, you know, businessman saddled up to me and proposed something. i think it was a good idea. he said, we're with have certain requirements eligibility requirements for the presidency these days. certainly, you know, age, nation of birth, citizenship but this this businessman said to me we should add provision to the constitution. which is amendment. which is how we change it. add a provision that all presidents should have been required to had at least three years of business experience. and i actually looked at and i thought that's crazy. actually genius too. what romney is doing there starting to reduce the number of people eligible for president and only describes him. [laughter] so why not? right. of course it would also unfortunately make ineel eligible many presidents with he had eisenhower, for example. he also might forgo a salary

might work on a intend basis. or at least consider it. [laughter] yeah, that would be the first time we have a president on commission. right. pretty wild. on the other hand that might work too. that could somewhere been my book. perhaps it is should are been. it really, if he balances the budget, raises the debt celling, lowers the deficit. maybe he deserves a million dollars inspect the grand scheme of things. it's not much. >> i want to talk about the book. there is a big section that we have gotten e-mails about particularly about the visit to the national constitution center. in your book you call the national constitution center the opposite of disney land. >> uh-uh. >> we have no carnal games, i've been in the mas colt costume. >> i have learned that. the days i was here was not out. >> here's what i'm saying. why not have -- and go all the

way. >> i'm not done. no cherry trees and no lines. there is a gift shop. i believe you call our award winning production of freedom rising afavor among many. >> i was inspired. it got into my skin that even in the short presentation that when the we the people is because broadcast in glances past your face. i felt -- you have to read the book. i was inspired by the freedom rising i stood up and decided i was going to find the constitution. did i now? >> you did. >> inspirational. i'm saying you have opportunities here. you would have a first amendment roller coaster. you could have a, you know, preamble location ride. a shooting gallery second amendment.

probably wouldn't thapt. saying there's opportunities question exploit certainly. >> you're right. you went searching for the constitution. that's what we're about getting people actively and getting them engaged you mention as the nation museum of the constitution would fall a little bit short. what else should we be doing differently here? >> that's it? >> shall i read again. >> what else would you like to see in a museum. >> on a cay like this and something i would suggest to congress as well. it seems to me that the only way we can get anything done is there a ticking clock here. we, you know, i make the suggestion that over, you know, only a few blocks from here the men got together and wrote a constitution over four months in the sweltering philadelphia heat. they had powdered wigs with they locked the doors, shut the

window, they were butchers throwing animal caucuses outside. it was stinky inside and out. there was a riot much of the summer. they were drinking beer for the breakfast. many drank beer for breakfast. it was safer than water. some drank so much beer they gave six hour long winded speeches. it derailed the thing. what do they do? they goat written. it was talk about crazy. so much that even at the end of the summer while they were -- well, they did two things. establish a committee of the whole and a committee of

if you want to give people a true experience. have one room that a open. everyone puts on the wig and have to sit there for five hours. to give you a specific idea. >> you make a god point. >> they have to debate something and find out who is going to win. >> you make a good win. civility was difference in those times. 225 years ago it was different than it was now. you point out that government is a little bit dysfunctional now. >> indeed. hopefully some of my solutions might well, you know, solve all the problems. you're right. >> what's the cause. why? how do we get the right people running for public office?

>> well, unfortunately, waylaid that and said we're going to be congressman. we're all in office for that matter. i can answer a question about -- because i think i left one question understand answered to you around. why am i writing it? where not point out that the constitution we have is great. and i agree. it is. it's something to be revered. why do it since the economy can take down of the constitution? and i actually want to read two quick sections, if i may that might actually suggest that. and also answer your question about what -- how can we get the right people running for office. i open the book with a fairly quick explanation for why i decided to write the bock. i lost my bookmark. it was my quill. one moment. there we go. and i felt excelled to read it. the beloved bell was in

jeopardy. it had hung due dutifully for decades. pealing above the pennsylvania state house. breaking the piece of the philadelphia streets only to remind the citizens that time had marched on and all was well. but these were no longer peaceful times. it was 1777 a year after america had declared independence from the british and days after general george washington had suffered a wither debate at the battle. all signs were that philadelphia, the revolutionary capital might be the next to fall. fearing that the kingsmen would melt any metal a few american patriots confiscated their own bell soon to be known appropriately as the liberty bell. and hid it in the safest place they could find. under a pile of horse maneuver. it worked. they never got the hands on the american lib liberty. the lesson learned back then rings as clear today.

sometimes in order to save an honor something we cheer rich, we have to bleep on it. and i think you know where i was with bleep. unfortunately the c-span cameras would be upset with me. but now to cut to the chase a little bit. and suggest to the world well, what i actually feel about the constitution, i think there's one of the thing i can read for you. kind of the book -- the belovered stamp was in jeopardy dp it had been dine saddam designed with the enduring national icon with the denomination choose ton reflect how long it would last. nay, how long it should last forever. a forever stamp. [laughter] it was 2011. 125 years affiliate the statute had featured dedicated from a gift of france as a memorial.

to honor the long journey. stamps had been fingerprinted. 2 million issued. they were isn't everywhere to enlight the world. the last forever wouldn't last forever. one [inaudible] the lady open the stamp wasn't the lady standing in new york. the lady on the stamp was the pint sized knock off on the las vegas strip looking at the new york casino. true story. he hadn't welcomed the mass earning to break free. she welcomed the gamblers at the buffet.

it wasn't the real lady liberty. it was lady luck. we have 3 billion of these? a small discolored reck rectangle a real lady wouldn't be cut dead with a blemish was the tell tail giveaway. somewhere merely rated the service and said yeah, that's right. someone noticed. what alerted us? the postal service issued a statement. quote we still love the stamp design and would have selected the photograph anyway. [laughter] they admitted no defeat, made no excuses, announced no recall. made me proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free to know i totally meant to do that when i screwed up. what i were they do to? deny it and make a mistake? james madison might have

wished. and perhaps original an -- should it recall the stamp and continue living in the past. that was the unfortunate choice johnathan dayton made when the youngest delegation at the stayed so fixuation on the

-- james madison ii we not suffer. they interpreted it as something different. we should get over other and stick with the program. meet at craps table. the lesson as the name this lady liberties outstretched hand. sometimes in order to honor an icon that defines us as a nation whether it be a woman holding a torch or a constitution of the united states of america we shomed roll with what we have. it's dambisa dambisa awesome. that's how it ends. the butler didn't do it here. it might with an accomplice. i come out after the rewritten preamble seven rewritten articles and 27 rewritten amendments thinking we should keep what we have. one of the chief accomplices was

james madison. you seem to have a -- we had a visit with james madison this afternoon. >> we did a photoopen. >> i love for you to explain the beef with james madon and how you made nice. i don't have to stand up to point out we have a lot in common. he was a short man as i said. and often said elsewhere. i see only so far as i do i stand on the shoulder of short then. james madison, of course, is the' go to my i.d. i can consider himself my' ego. i compare myself to him. he is the overachiever that he wanted to be. i was a minus for too many years. but unfortunate truth is he wanted considered the stiff

gloomy creature. they called him inconspicuous. you wouldn't notice him in a room. he wore dark colors. almost always black. which i found interesting. i didn't know that. i make the comic joke should we priewfm that our father of our constitution is, you know, a man of steely gaze and what have you. if she's not going to be -- we with wear a trench coat and join forces. >> i want to make sure we leave time for audience questions. those who want to ask a question of. please queue up at microphone. a lot of folked are interested in our experience with the daily show. and both with the bock and with your writing for the show this comes from -- it is fun but it also comes from a place of deep intelligent. you have done a lot research. >> your me search.

forgive me. what are you focused on current events. walk us through what a day is like in the daily show. >> happifully. we were anticipating the supreme court are decision. that was coming out of heaven. we knew it would be interesting. we were happy it landed on the thursday before we were about to take a break. usually they land on sunday or saturday. we managed to get our teeth into it. we enjoyed that. the day is not -- it's what you expect. it's a bunch of people with their radar. looking for interesting material. we get into the office. it is quick paced. what are have you. it is screening a bunch of footage getting angry at the bunch. we think we can turn it into some kind of amusement for our

own health that's what we think might be the first segment. and then throughout the day, we kind of constantly rewriting and making sure eyes on the produce. three or four times we get together with john and, you know, he is the vision for the show. he's the editor in chief. so an then by 4:30 we have the script. >> you mentioned that the justice is the funniest. who is the funniest writer? >> it's not competition. it's a collaborative group. you suggest there's i think so. in the same with a that's we make fun of the headlines from 2012. i was making some fun of the headlines from early qer. it i was surprised how much they fed up with together. nights and weekend and the cell phone plan and working with daily show during the day. it would be amusing every time you show up at the show, someone somewhere would say something

rather ridiculous about the constitution either cite it incorrectly or say something. it's funny you mentioned we're mentioning the aca and the supreme court decision last week. speaking of something that i found funny. i would have gone home and researched more. you might have noticed after the decision rand paul actually said to people he said,

going are into the punchline. if they didn't read the news elsewhere they haven't seen the news they might be confused by that. i don't think our audience gets confused by that. i think they say that because maybe they want to boost work for us. i appreciate it. i presume they have a bredder brush. >> you hope. i people, i need to know. i need to think. yeah. >> in the election season what is the richest terrible for you? what are do you have the most fun with? >> it won't surprise you when there were 20 debates with 15 republican candidates. it was an amusing time. no doubt about it. you know, as far as going forward i think it's interesting to see how much money is being sent on the campaigns. i think we'll make some comic out of that.

but you know you can't predict what's going to happen on any of this. truly, you know, you show up on the given day, you work with what gives, not what you think is going to happen two months from now. and that becomes our show. as much as we like to say in august we're doing this. it doesn't work that way. >> as margaret mention we have a number of things going on with the election season. we wanted to put you on the spot for those who have seen the website lately. we launched a project called address america. address america is your speech. many recognize read my lips. no new taxes. we launched a new project this year during the election season to ask you what you want to hear from the politician. and so if we can -- can he have the address america video? we're going to ask you. >> sure thing.

♪ candidates use over and over while they're running for the political office. the stump speech dates tobacco to the 1800 when candidates stood on actual tree turns to deliver their message to crowd because they're speaking to different audiences, candidates have used the stump feature keep the message focused and consistent. we're asking you to take to the stump and get your speech down to six words. people say lots. >> we the people run the government. >> new president equals new job. >> i thnk breastfeeding can change america. >> only voters complain about government. >>let bring the old values back. let's take care of our homeland. >> freedom comes with a great responsibility. >> american freedom is beautiful. >> tolerance, freedom, liberty and parent sei independency. >> change the economy! >> right now. >> let's be united states

again. >> we are two divided on everything. >> for that . >> everybody needs have freedoms today. [laughter] >> common dent sei. >> more protection equals more free life. >> let's get rid of the litter. >> politicians should go far, far away. [laughter] [inaudible] >> health benefits should be less expensive. >> purchasing arts is sustainable energy. >> every day meshes can be heroes too. america needs a broader world perspective. >> get out and see your country. that's a address america. we're going to be taking this to the republican and democratic national conventions this summer. you have two minutes to think about it. what's your six-word stump speech. you realize i'm asking an author of a several hundred page book to narrow it down. >> can i have two? >> thank you. >> i think the first one i'm

happy with this one. in the words of patrick henry, give me liberty or give me -- see! give me liberty. that's all he's asking! no, i would say this is a fair one. i think consider the day. six. obviously, you can count. honor the constitution, read the constitution. how about that? >> fantastic. truly mean. i quote you on that. thank you. [applause] so kevin, what's your next project? any other crucial american documents that need to be rewritten? >> certainly as been prescribed to me i'll be writing the sequel in 19 years. look forward to that. i'll imagine in the fewer future i'll probably need to rewrite the federalist papers. because in the same way they wrote the papers to convince people to ratify their constitution. i probably have splaining to do

at this point. maybe that's the next talk. or maybe "fifty shades of grey." i'm not sure. they called it fifty shades of red, white and blue. is there a product line? >> a question from other here. >> thank you. kathleen. >> hi. >> hi. so you are a self-subscribed over achiever since high school. >> yes. >> and obviously have a lot of passion and done research. why comedy not politickings? >> because i enjoy it. and i don't know that i would enjoy being politician i don't know that i'd be a good one perhaps because of the comedy i've already written. who knows. truly just comes down to i enjoy having this kind of, you know, perverse angle on life. i enjoy taking something and turning it into comedy. that seems to be what has been my bread and butter and filled my sales. >> thank you.

>> keech, i want to say thank you. thank you to all of you for coming to join us. i like to give you the official leather bound guilded copy. here is your constitution. >> kevin thank you for joining us at the national constitution center. happy independents day. [applause] >> booktv has over 150,000 twitter followers. follow booktv on twitter to get publishing news, scheduling updates, author information, and talk directly with authors during our live programming. twitter.com/booktv. what will you reading this summer? booktv. s to know. doing work to sort of going over to my personal reading.

i'm reading a number of books involving islamic terrorism, american response to 9/11, what we're doing as far as afghanistan and iraq. main book i read was "hard measures." jose rodriguez he was head of the team that put together integration methods. it was criticized it was effective and did the job, i think. very well written book. also the "art of intelligence "by hank. he's in the cia but organize straiting director in the war in -- sphas what they're doing in iraq and afghanistan. how the policy are being pursued and shows a side of the president which indicates that his policy are not that different in many cases from

president bushes. also "hunt for bin laden." i'm starting that now. it details the ten-year manhunt for bin laden. which of course, ended successfully last may when he was killed. and then so you i did johnson who has been a witness before my committee has a book called "a battle for the soul of islam" which an attempt to focus american muslims on the war against al qaeda, against islam ist extremism. and another book is a -- [inaudible] but it's berlin 1961 by frederick. i was in college at that time. and described all it to behind the scenes, with the construction of wall. kennedy and it's interesting to compare the times with what's happening today. and finally "complicated man."

a history much bill clinton. i was mentioned -- i was interviewed for the book, so i guess it's going to be reading it because i'm in it. again, i served urn the congress of bill clinton. it's interesting to read that. really basic senate book. islamic terrorism, farm policy and biography bock. for more on this and other summer reading list with, visit booktv.org. up next on bock tv afterwards with guest host new york professor. this week frederick harris and the latest book the price of the ticket. in it the colombia university professor says that barack obama election to the presidency under mined the civil rights movement that made it possible to shifting to