that is the success of my book, not my riding. it's touching people. so make a movie at of it. or in the process of doing that, and it's happening. it should be out next year. pretty exciting. >> parents of young children of you from a different genre. >> strangely enough i have had have the joy of working for vegetables as a writer. i am the voice of the narrator. also i wrote some books for vegetables. ever a lot of children's books, 30 children's books over the years. another genre was planned to step in this lifetime, but i love writing for children. one of the most fun things you can do. some of my heroes, c.s. lewis wrote children's books. i really do enjoy it. my children's books are usually also for adults. i hope.

miserly aspires to. a double lot. and the roots of the call socrates in the city speaker serious. a lot of people that you might have heard of and might not have heard of. it's a lot of fun. i really enjoy doing that. anyone can see it online. >> we have been talking with eric metaxas, most recent book seven men in the secret of their greatness. watching book tv and c-span2. >> next from the 2014 conservative political action conference book tv talk to richard minotaur about his new book guys on target. in the book he chronicles the history of the navy seals and discusses steel operations going back to the vietnam war. heels of reports and the actions of two seals in paris during the

attack and the american diplomatic mission in benghazi, libya on september 11th 2012. >> now joining us on book tv, author richard mentor. what do you write about? >> days that interest me in the open interest of the people. eyes on target is about the navy seals. it's a little bit different about the culture of the navy seals, what makes them different and unique. the united states navy has spent millions of dollars. what makes some people go through basic training and 70 percent of people fail, demographics, ethnic, family background, religion and found that none of that matters. navy seal screw. stand up baby seals grew up in public housing. summer white, summer and mr.

mr. black. some are hispanic, some are asian, summer native-born, many are foreign-born. in this book have the story first ever told a series of the come from all walks of life, all economic backgrounds and faiths. the common denominator among what makes this deal get through all of these levels of training and makes them a real standout as combat. three things which no one else can really do. down it the bodies. for one of the things they do is basic underwater demolition. it forces them to do with it. the second, you must fight confusion, fight fear.

great mental fatigue. your mind it's one out, the ability to persevere through the mental fog. dominate your spirits. drive your room. the constant doleful word. those three things at the same time, individuals who can do one of the other of the third one. but to do all three is truly extraordinary. in this culture is under threat, how politically correct these to change. and that was interesting to me. >> women? >> not yet. the defense department is certainly looking at this. there are former seels to have had sex change operations. it's an unusual al liar.

not everyone can be a seal. very few people have to be it's an extraordinary thing. and there's a lot of debate within the community about whether women can physically do it. the u.s. army ranger instructor retrains rangers, very demanding physical program. he pointed out an olympic athlete who could not get through ranger training. you know, their mail on an athlete to failure to seal trading. the questions are there and i can maintain the same standards. since that sounds like a political question, but for the navy seals involve its really a practical one. to the pushups, carry the heavy load, physically endure for hundred and 40 hours. carias $7, physically do the job . seals opera in the most demanding environments and the steel operations, drop from

40,000 feet and 8 miles high into a cold oceans 10 miles offshore, swimming underwater. they're literally swimming with sharks in the philippines, in cold water in the pacific. the operating in high altitude above 12,000 feet in the mountains of afghanistan. so that's a great deal. >> how many navy seals are there? >> the exact number is classified. but it is roughly about 2,000 navy seals were liable. there's an alumni organization of 2,000 more. at some point i think everybody thinks about the navy seal. those to actually get a tryout for buds is about 10,000 over the course of last in years. so to even get to the part where

you're able to go to basic underwater demolition school which they called buds, basic training for seals is a demanding process. you have to join the navy, go through navy basic training, join the navy pulling go through training. but even after you get through to mothers and other demanding training program. so it takes about a year-and-a-half to two years of grueling selection process to get through that program. and very few do. less than 20 percent and most glasses make it through the program. and these are highly selective, maile skilled young people with demonstrated capability. some of them are former marines, olympic athletes, all these people fail. >> how long does one stay in? >> that's a great question. you'd think it's a young man's game, but there are a great number of seals still in active duty in there mid to late 30's

. often that one do about 20 years to get the pension. one of the things i discovered, a record number of early retirement, people leaving after 16 years, after 12 years. and that's because they sense is becoming more politically correct. there are al qaeda prisoners who were later exonerating the trial, but the trials of gone on for a year-and-a-half before there is honor in it. once the found not guilty, and captured the al qaeda leader of the loser who was as folks will for hanging for american bodies of the bridge, the infamous atrocity and was seen around the world. five years later the caption the gatt mind it. they turned in an without firing a shot. but the guy behind it was woken up and says your in big trouble.

why? later exonerated. after the been subjected to a degree of legal scrutiny, just a modest kind -- sign up for another tour. millions of dollars of trading invested in each of these men. something we really need to think about. yes colony to protect the human rights of prisoners to really also have to realize that al qaeda, in afghanistan the train people to make false reports, high up in the military to keep our war fighters of the field. but the awareness sometimes the enemy will make false reports on purpose. we have to protect the operators from that. not enough time reflecting some of the deadliest people honor.

>> what kind of access were you granted officially? >> i get a fair amount of very get access, some of whom are not named in the book. my co-author, an american sniper , and dudley field sniper. both had a fair amount of access >> well, should we be doing so much? one of the things that seals complain about, but thought it was a mistake. it down and would be better. when there was an attack on seal team six about 90 days after his death and led to the single greatest loss of life for navy seals in the history since

today. it up that was retaliation for than killing. but naming them puts the lie is a risk in the lives of the families of rest. we know from intelligence documents in the book that al qaeda has an online unit of baxter social media, especially facebook define the identity of seals and their families. >> seal is an acronym for sea air and land basically. it was a term developed in the kennedy years. underwater demolition teams. they snuck into enemy harbors a bombs on boats. that was the edt. seals come about in the early 1960's. kennedy, of course, jfk had been on the skipper. he understood the ability for a

small but, a small crew of navy personnel and,. so the first in command of force that could go and see, erica mann land, all environs, not just operating with ships the very far from land. and now in vietnam, the blue waters, the navy, the brown waters, the insurgency, deep in the jungle. and among various areas. in the current war, iraq, afghanistan, the warrantor whether operating thousand miles from the sea. the only water we have the senate canteens. >> you finished up highs on the target. >> that's right. in gauzy gets ignored. it's an important part of the story. two of the four victims, former

navy seals. the importance of our interview, we kept hearing about this. and these -- benghazi is a fascinating story as marginally overlooked by the media. refund a couple of things that a new, an intelligence report that was circulating inside the cia and defense department and most importantly inside the state department months before the deadly attack and benghazi warning about an outside a field of. one actually took photographs of al qaeda and a rally in mortars where two months before the attack in june 2012. some 300 up and activists waving their guns in the air and publicly calling for the death of the u.s. ambassador. the very same time the state department job security. they also knew that the private life of ambassador stevens was

known and used as a targeting device by al qaeda. some of his friends and associates, his jogging schedule was posted, facebook page on the month before the attack, utterly ignored. we have a minute by minute account of the attack. the immense value, more than 40 diplomats in the diplomatic security in benghazi. they did not -- i don't think they had to die. ambassador smith died in the first half-hour of the attack. there were separated in a small building which -- there were suffocated to death. the attackers knew exactly where the diesel fuel was hit on u.s. embassy grounds. they broke into the drums and set the building and fire with the ambassador dying of smoke inhalation. the other two died eight hours

later. are rolling attack. there was ample time to save them and the other americans, but also we wanted to highlight their role, they're still turning. of the above volunteered. one came from tripoli. and how their sacrifice said a lot of lives. >> this photograph, is this posed or is this -- >> no. that's a shot taken in afghanistan. i believe in 2003. don't call me to that. >> navy seals for those are navy seals. >> highs on a target inside stories from the brotherhood of the u.s. navy seals. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> and now from the 2014 conservative political action conference david r. sunny says it is about time that americans accepted that democracy is not all that is cracked up to be and

argues that we should get rid of the. >> the people have spoken. and there are wrong. the case against democracy. what are the people wrong about? >> everything at some point. right? does the problem. which is okay. were all wrong about a lot of things, but more importantly when we are wrong and coerce others to have to act a certain way or except social norms that we do to my thing. >> in what way? >> because we are coercing people to change. you're undermining their freedom because extortion. democracy is essential in the majority. a larger government grows, the more it intrudes on our everyday lives and our decision the more democracy matters and the more we need to stop it and diffuse it, compartmentalizes, localize it and tried to do away with it. >> are you talking specifically

about campaigns? >> no. i'm talking about growth of federal government mostly, in trading on the rights of states. i mean a philosophical problem as well, but i think specifically in america we have to remember our federal district which to talk about in the book. and allow people to make decisions for their own community instead of having someone from faraway be able to decide because of a good campaign. >> so it's not democracy than what? >> the world is an imperfect place and humans are imperfect. i think we need some kind of democracy to alleged people to run things. i don't think we need to have democracy decide what marriage looks like, what health care looks like, you know, what our communities look like. think we have to localized at. diffuse democracy as much as possible. there is no perfect system.

i think we do have the structure of the best system available, giving away from what misconceptions are. >> how would we do that? now what we accomplished that? >> states make their own decisions. you don't have that huge projects like obamacare and other things. and not just pointing the finger at democrats. i think republicans with nets out look beyond the other programs undermine local control of education and other things which created this sort of a gigantic centralize democracy rem local democracy. >> john adams "to use in your book, there never was a democracy it. >> i think that's all were doing in a way. i'm more hopeful i guess that he is that we can still turn around we are not really a democracy. we are republic. people have to remember that. people say and all the time, but think that there's a lot of

truth in it. >> where do we go? >> for going to be heading in the wrong direction for a while, i think. religious liberty, for instance, were you have washington deciding what it means odds were about pressuring governors and essentially forcing people to participate. i'm actually not just for gamers but for the government getting out of the marriage business completely. what kind of relationship i have in my personal life is none of government business if no one's being heard. on a libertarian. i believe that. i think democracy consistently undermines that. >> we recently interviewed an author who said it signed a throw with the constitution and do away with the. >> i think that's a terrible idea, obviously. a provocative idea. i don't know what he wants to replace it with. the constitution was written by men. it did not come down from mt.

sinai. if you want to change you can. there are ways to do that. it's been done many times. i'm not sure what you believe. think the constitution generally speaking is a fine document said diffuse democracy and centralized government. get people to the most individual freedom possible as far as government. >> talking about -- to you still see a need for national elections? to you still see a need for congress and the senate? >> i do. i am -- well, i do. i am not an anarchist or anything of that sort. i think politics plays too important roles in our lives. it is not just the politicians' fault. it is the electors fault as well. we are not educated on the topics of we are voting on. so passionate sometimes. 40 percent of people did not know the difference between medicaid and medicare. yet they are voting on health care policy essentially when the vote for the president.

so i think it is that the voters are prominent politicians are a problem, but i don't know if there's a better system to sort of the centralized government. i don't think parliamentary systems work any better. i like the system we have, but i think there are a lot of things that we can do to fix it set. >> name another example out fix it. >> well, education policy. i think that every president lately has come and with a national education policy as if the kids and mississippi have the same needs as the kids in vermont which is just about the case. in fact within the state i lived in colorado for many years. boulder is maybe the most liberal city in america, but also colorado springs which is one of the most conservative cities in america. people should be allowed to live in those communities. i believe in school choice as well and vouchers to be allowed to teach there kids whenever their values are. i think they should be -- but not the people that live in those communities and teach

there kids which crafters something. i think generally people would choose to do the right thing for the children on their own without government, but i think if you want to teach your kids creationism you should be able to. >> when it comes to diffusing, does that mean you're read the department of education and the energy department? >> well, i live in one world of the radical -- a tyrannical world and the real world. the real world, a sprawling not going happen, but i think it should. i don't see the need for a program of education specifically. but does not going to happen, let's be honest. the best we can do is rely more on federalism for our everyday, you know, our votes. starting with obamacare which probably will never be repealed. that's reality. moving for a think we should always be, you know, laboratories of democracy. >> what about direct election of senator?

>> again, it's not going to change. i think that there will be far more -- if they elect to the senators and thank you have a lot more to five senators less concerned about national politics and more concerned about the state which is, i think, what the founders intended. again, we can't even pass the bill to do anything, so or not changing the constitution in the near future. yep. i think the original way was far superior. >> you talked about the bandwagon. what is that? >> well let's talk about gay marriage. there's always been a debate in this country. for many years it was relatively unpopular and polls and in the direct elections. and then all the sudden a president says he's for it and of a sudden their is a bandwagon effect for everyone says, oh, the president says it's okay. it must be.

they gather around the issue and change their mind. people are guilty of that on almost culture, music, everything. so i don't know why they would be a man when it comes to political. he have to believe a lot of crazy things. tons of americans believe in ufos in astrology and all kinds of things that make me not want to trust them to make decisions for me. >> what does the constitution say? >> democracy is not mentioned in the constitution. the federalist papers talk about it. i actually tend to disagree with the founders. think they have are rosy view of what democracy would be like. but it's not mentioned in the constitution. they had no thought that democracy specifically centralized federal democracy would be this powerful. i don't think ever imagined that >> is your view shared? >> you would be surprised.

when i told my parents what book was riding there were like, what? but because we don't think of democracy as the process that reflects our ethics and morals, we think of it as something as very positive meeting freedom. we've seen russia and is not necessarily manifesting more liberty. so what was the result question again? >> what does the constitution say? >> the constitution says nothing. >> political spectrum was the question. people across the political spectrum. >> you be surprised how many people. one person should be running. to give you an example, a lot of people have said that they want people and the federal reserve. [applause] to open up and let everyone participate. but can you imagine having everyone talking about the federal reserve when even the fed governors probably don't really understand why things are happening?

a think sometimes you just have to say, listen, there are people in know more about something in the after allow them to run whenever institution were talking about. religion, for instance. >> to been talking on book tv with david. his most recent book, the people of spoken and they are wrong, the case against democracy published by gregory. also the author of obama's for horsemen and the nanny state. thank you for your time. >> anytime. >> book tv interviewed kevin freeman at the 2014 conservative political action conference about his book came plan. in the but mr. freeman discusses the threat of economic and financial terrorism and suggests ways for americans to protect themselves. >> kevin freeman, what do you do for a living? >> a money manager, investment manager. >> why are you writing books about security? >> 2008 when the stock market

started to collapse like plans were losing money, and i wanted to understand why. so i started digging into it. i found evidence of financial terrorism and the 2008 collapse. i shared it with friends who were connected with the pentagon and the fbi command the next thing i knew i was a government contractor doing research which came out in 2009, on the quickly there was evidence of foreign terrorism, financial terrorism as part of the stock market crash. >> and that resulted in your first book which came out in 2012 title secret weapon. what is the -- what is the thesis of this book? >> basically during all sorts of crazy things in a rousing bubble and so forth, enemies of the united states, particularly radical islam, elements of the pla, elements in russia noticed our vulnerability economically and they started using george soros style techniques to target lehman brothers, aig, citibank,

goldman sacks, and they actually started using manipulative techniques in the market with the ins -- intent of crashing our stock market. sounds like a conspiracy theory but it's not. hank paulson, former treasury secretary even came out and said in his memoirs, the russians approached the chinese and said if we don't all of our holdings of american dead now we can krater the american economy. and in fact the russians did. the chinese did not, but the russians did and worsen our economic situation substantially >> you have a follow-up. game plan, how to protect yourself from the coming cyber economic attack. >> a part of my research i not only did what happened in 2008-9 but i got into the chinese doctor which is written in the book called unrestricted warfare published by the people's liberation army of china said. two senior colonels and the pla wrote this.

in 1999 they said the best way to beat america is a single man may stock-market crash. cyber attacks on the infrastructure or ruining the currency. so unelectable would happen in 2008-9, but i look forward to what could happen. when i found was that next type of whether we will face is not going to be a shooting war, guns and tanks and aircraft carriers, cyber economic in nature. this is what all of our enemies have said because they don't want to take on the military had the head. they have said we will crash the american economy if we get into a war. does not just conjecture. as well vladimir prudence said just recently when he invaded the ukraine and we said we will slap sanctions on you. his response was, you don't want to do that because i can crash a stock market. i connected financial system. i can dump the dollar. the very things that i wrote about 2008 and then covered in a game plan. game plan and says okay. if that's what they intend to do

what would you as an individual american, i should you protect yourself? what are you saying? you invest, put everything in gold, silver? what do you do with your money. >> as a money manager today are you in the stock market? >> i am. in fact the stock market performs pretty well. i have with me that i carry zimbabwe currency. that is from 1998, zimbabwe was producing $100 bills that you could exchange a thomas cook for $20 u.s. now flipping over. that's what they were producing in 2008. the currency collapsed. those were hundred trillion dollar bills out with 1 penny. despite the fact occur is a completely collapsed the stock market actually did pretty well. it was the best performing stock market in 2008. i covered this in the book. if the currency collapse happens if you don't want to avoid stock. if a deflationary happens

c-span2 bonds. so the question is what kind of economic attack would we be facing, water they going to do and how should you respond. that's why it's called game plan. the plan is a look at the and of this and say, well, going to pass. the going to pass the you want to pass people. we cover all types of economic attacks and all types of investment and how you respond. >> right now what kind of defense to we have up against such an economic attack? >> unfortunately we don't have anything of the national level. general keith alexander and outgoing head of the nsa has said recently -- in fact he was on 60 minutes. and he said basically our enemies know how to crater our financial system, and there's nothing we can do to stop at this point. we can stop hackers from hacking target. a can stop rogue employees from stealing secrets from the nsa. iran has attacked the navy

website. we can't put -- total prevent this. it's a complex topic. a new form of warfare which is why he was so confident in saying if you do is making greater your market. we can attack a system. there is very little we can do at the federal level. we are trying. we have been working with several groups and the government of trying to figure out solutions to the problem, but in general game plan tells the individual, imagine you were living in honolulu in 1941 and somebody said to make all by the way, if the japanese are bombing here's what you should do. does the nature of this book. if the russians grammarian's, north koreans, chinese start attacking as economically game plan tells you how to respond. >> what is one piece of advice you have for individuals? >> everyone in the financial system says go electronic. we will give you $50 if you will take electronics statements. don't do it. if you do it print out actual

statements. in a personal life experience example, in 2001 when the trade towers or it i have a line of credit in one of the companies that was ousted as ours. access that to pay payroll because all the money dried up in 2001. the banks to know what to do. i had to go of my paper statement and convince j.p. morgan chase at the time it was bank one to let me have access to the line of credit when all the records were down. batman had a paper statement i could not done it. that is one thing. keep copies of your stockbroker statements, your bank accounts and so forth because of the whole system is down for weaker ten days for 14 days how you pay your mortgage, have you pay your bills? that's one solid individual piece of a vise. another one is keep more than two days of food in your pantry and today's of water. if the electric grid were hacked and taken down it might take a

week, ten days, longer if or a serious attack. keep a little food on supply on hand. the only nation that we live in a just-in-time society. the only nation in the world that does not have access to food or water beyond just adair to the of the pops stop working. i'm not talking about being crazy in moving into the basement of the problem. by the way, it's less and less crazy all the time, but i'm not talking about that. attack iraqi be weaker ten days or the food supply on hand on a regular basis because of something really did go down the need the. in the dow have water. the a gallon per person per day. this could happen from hurricane sandy. it could happen from hurricane katrina. it could happen from flutter fire or carrington of and which recover in the book which is a natural solar flares occur wipeout are electric grid for a

short time and maybe a long time it's a practical of vice number two is keeping a little bit of food and a little bit of water on hand. >> and the subtitle you said that this is a coming cyber economic attack. when is it coming? >> i don't know, but i can tell you with almost 100 percent certainty that it will come. we get hacked, 10 million hacking attempts today. everyone in the government, both sides of the political aisle will tell you we will have a cyber pearl harbor some point of view. al qaeda has recruited some of the best hackers in the world. the iranians, the supreme leader of ron went down and showed on the iranian news network, sure of the hackers that their training and their intention is to attack the united states and the west. every day there are hacks that happen. an electronic army in 2013 at the associated press twitter feed, sent out of fall street

that the white house about it. the odd rhythmic trading programs of the nyse-listed to apply and immediately the stock exchange dropped one person. it was totally fake. what if they did that in conjunction with the terror attack in ' happen? we could be down 10% instantly. the point is, we will face a terror attack. it is inevitable, and we need to prepare for it. >> secret weapon, hell economic terrorism brought down the u.s. stock market and why it can happen again. his most recent book, brand new out to my game plan, out to protect yourself from the coming cyber economic attack. this is book tv and c-span2. >> visit booktv.org to watch any of the programs you see your online. type the offer but title in the search bar in 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

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