of which we will both be third generation who graduates. .. she is being threatened by hec lassmates, let alone her professors, because we support donald trump. they have gone as far as denying her thesis. her support for trump, it has nothing to do with what the thesis is about. it has everything to do with her politics. yetonsider this to be another example of political

correctness. correctness it is supporting. host: we appreciate your call. guest: we get this a lot. our celebrity cochair has talkedloquently -- eloquently about the hate she has received and the impact that is happening on her professional life. a personal you example. i had a yard sale in seattle last week, it is a pretty blue area. we have a socialist on the city council. i took my trump sign down before sale. the yard i can't keep a sign up. i was worried about pushback. i should know i was worried about pushback from the neighborhood yard sale.

i should know better, but i caved to it as well. >> along the same lines of that collar, they said my expensive private educated life won't be voting for hillary if my life depended on it. that goes back to what you said earlier, it appears to be a support for, not favorability that among white women with a college degree, trump is trailing 27 - 50%. >> that's one of the reasonsrs n that we realized by having a super pack, we realized realized if we can nudge the numbers on those women, a few points for what we are doing, we can make an difference in the election with our message..

>> good morning, i find it insulting that you think women feel the need to vote for hillary because she is a woman. please give us more credit than that. frankly, your twitter handle says it all, no woman should be referred to as a bench. >> yes, i've been called so much worse by the hillary supporter with words that i can't evenr. repeat on the air and with telling me to do things to parts of my body that are physically impossible and things that i really wouldn't want my mom to see so, i am old enough again to have come through the glass ceiling myself so i didn't care

what you called me, if you wanted to call me a tran9, that's okay, just okay, just give me the job because that was back in the women's movement back in the 70s. as far as women feeling that they have to vote, wasn't at madeleine albright who said there's a special place in hell for women who didn't support ever women in reference to hillary? that was one of the moments i decided we needed to do something to support mr. trump and take action because i was deeply offended of madeleine albright telling me i was going to hell if i didn't support hillary. i take offense with your position as well. >> we go to deborah on our democrats line, good morning. >> caller: god bless you catherine, i concur. as a democrat, i have felt betrayed by my party because they've turned mr. trump into some demon and it's unfortunate. i have a masters degree in computer engineering and all my

compatriots are voting for trump. i converted four more democrats to vote republican and i am so proud because i feel his heart is there, he wants america to be fabulous, he wants everyone to appreciate and respect him as a leader. he is a leader in his own business. >> guest: you know, today is women's equality day which was declared in 1971 to commemorate the enactment of the amendment giving women the right to vote. you know, one of the mottos of the women's suffrage movement was deeds, not words.

that's one of the things we look at mr. trump, look at his deeds, look at his hiring of women and his hiring of minorities, look in his family and how he treats the women and how he respects the women in his family. look at his daughter, look at the deeds, not the words. yes, sometimes he does miss speak and he says things we would rather him not see and he probably regrets. thank you so much for your support. >> host: news about donald trump's campaign ceo, his chief ceo, his chief was in a domestic to a gent dispute. he faced charges of battery in a 96 case saying donald trump campaign was part of an effort to reset a candidacy that has stumbled with minority and female boaters and suffered with controversy with high-level campaign officials. he brings to the post his owns m bumpy background including

misdemeanor charges of domestic violence and allegations that he threatened his then wife, the accuser, with retribution if she testified in a criminal case. according to a police report obtained by the new york times, the charges were dropped in that case according to the article. how difficult does this make your efforts? >> guest: this kind of burns me up when i see these kinds of things coming out because they had to look long and hard and many years back to find something of which he was not convicted. there were no, it turned out to be nothing and it has gone on. i wish the press would do the same investigating, let's talk about this if they're going to talk about sexual behavior or actions toward women, can somebody who is a campaign person, all we have to do is look at the potential of thef first gentleman if you want to start to talk about sexual escapades and treatment of wome there's no comparison between

what's more important. we all have things, let me put it this way, we all have things in our past that we probably aren't proud of that work are best moments. if you want to research any person on the planet, you can find something in this turned out to be nothing. it turned out to come to nothino >> host: here is a caller from new jersey on the independent line. >> caller: good morning bill and good morning catherine and thank you for cspan. catherine, i voted for donaldcad trump in the primary and i have every intention of voter voting for him in the general election, however, i, i am very troubled about what i'm hearing about what i'm hearing on the policy of immigration. the reason this is is because this was his signature issue that been many people flock to donald trump. this issue has been out of control for so many years that

when he stepped up to the forefront and said he was finally going to get this under control, this is what basically attracted me to donald trump. i think one problem is, he is is starting to surround himself with too many people from the establishment and if he isn't careful, in my case, i will stai home. if he changes his policy and does not follow through on building that wall and deporting these people that are in this country illegally, i, for the first time, will not be voting. this is very important that he sticks to this. i know a lot of people who are very enraged by this change and i'm hoping that when he gets feedback from his supporters he will turn around again and follow through on what he promised us to to get him elected in the primary. >> host: thank you mary lu.

>> guest: i like that you are speaking out. you raised a couple of things. first let me talk about the immigration and i will talk about that establishment issue that you raised. as far as immigration, what i've seen is that he is a work inintg progress and he is trying to define his policy. he has not yet completely delineated the policy. the talk this week was delayed.e what i say see is that he delayed it because he wanted more information and keep talking to people. he was in a town hall and turned to the audience and asked people what they thought, asked for feedback. it seems to me he is doing what i want a leader to do which isnd going out, getting information,m talking to people and listening so for you to speak up, he can listen to what you have to say. i haven't seen any change as far as the wall. i know everybody is analyzing every word he said about it. i don't know what's in his heart

or in his mind, but i personally think the wall is steady. he's also talked about deporting the criminals sitting in our jails and sending them back to their home countries as a gun deal, that's it. the question is how do we donc this, it so complex an issue. if harry reid and nancy pelosi and president obama wanted to fix it or could fix it, they had two years to do it with the control of the house in the senate. it's a very complex issue and it will be hard to take care of. keep speaking out and let him know what you think, but i like that he's listening and he is still open. politicians usually pick ayo course based on their polling and focus groups and they stick with it and they drag us along with that instead of listening to us. the other thing you raised is the establishment, you're

worried about the establishment people coming on and i like it that you said that because one of the things that i personally like about mr. trump is that he is very disruptive to the republican party and i like tham sometimes we need chaos to have change and i see that as a positive and some of that disruption. >> the comments on immigration, donald trumps mixed signals on immigration world campaign. here's a republican line victor, good morning. >> caller: hillary is personal for me. i'm 69 years years old, i'm legally blind, my cited wife who is an extreme liberal, as soonsa as the clintons got into office, she gave me an ultimatum, either the marriage or rush limbaugh. i picked rush limbaugh, she

dumped me. rush has said on his show many times that hillary will remind every man who has been through a divorce, with the way she screams and yells, she does remind me of my former wife whoo i cannot stand. >> guest: i'm glad that you apparently got custody of cspan as well or joint custody at least, i'm glad to see that. >> host: i wanted to talk about a new ad that came out by the hillary campaign that is focusing on some of the things that donald trump has said and families reaction. here's what it looks like. >> i love the old days. you know they used to do with guys like that, they would be carried out on a stretcher folks. you can tell them.

>> i could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lose any votes. it's incredible. when mexico sends its peoples they're bringing drugs and crime and rapist. there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever, i don't know what i said, i don't remember. >> our children and grandchildren will look back at this time, at the choices we are about to make, the goals we will strive for, the principles we will live by we need to make sure they can be proud of us i'm hillary clinton and i approve of this message. >> host: what do you think. >> guest: this is just a little reworking of a spot that has been running since july that they tagged on the hillary comment at the end.o

a couple of things, you can cherry pick comments from any candidate and string them together and make them look bad. if we want to take hillary barking and some of her comments and string them along we could do the same thing with her. anybody can do that.wer this in fact, women vote vote trump does indeed have a spot to answer this spot going on. comeb it comes back to looking at the deeds, not the words. it's capitalizing. it's the state of politics toda every time i candidate missteps or says something, that becomes the thing that goes into the spot and will be played over and over again out of hours and hours and hours of comments, statements, rallies, et cetera.t i don't know. politicians and people who run for office must have different dna than the rest of us to be willing to do this and subject themselves to this. i am in all of all of them on all sides that they are willing

to do it. >> host: we have a couple more calls. we hear from barbara next. she is in indiana on our democrat line. >> caller: i hear the talk about hillary's ethics and i'm having a problem with donald trump's ethics. not paying for contractors in his investments, he's always been for trump. i don't really see the comparison. i never knew a democrat to take away rights. i have certainly seen republicans take away rights and want to take away rights. rig the risking of women's right is severe with the election of donald trump. it's just beyond me to hear thi: i'm voting for keeping rights. >> guest: i don't see what rights mr. trump is trying to take away when he talks about bringing jobs to the country and bringing jobs for women.

i want to go back to one issue with the contractors. one of our former cochairs actually worked for mr. trump back in the 80s and has known him for many, many years.ssue wt she told us the issue with the contractors and subcontractors is he had a problem and they hadn't done the job and he wasn't paying them until they finish the job. it's not just that he refused to pay a bill. if you go back to his employees and the people who work for himn they have wonderful things to say. the you talk about democrats, republicans taking away rights,h that's a big discussion that we don't have time for but it seems to me it's the democrats who are trying to limit using bigea government as the weapon and the other thing you mentioned is, what was the third thing? oh, you don't think his ethics compared to mrs. clinton's. i can't see how you can even begin to compare whether he paid

a contractor or not with the fact that the woman had a server that was not secure and was in foreign countries literally exposing her state secrets and her server, her e-mails to potential enemies. how is that not one of the worst things you can do. >> host: one more call from florida. good morning. >> caller: good morning to you and good morning teargas. i have not seen any plan that donald trump has out laid beside make america great, trust me and i want to do it. he really hasn't given up plan on anything he's going to do. then for all of the remarks that he has made an, that he has made , these are things that came out of his mouth from clips and

recordings of him saying thingsm it's not like somebody is putting words in his mouth or whatever. he is a racist. >> host: to donald's point on policy specifics, is this something you would like to seee more of from the trump campaign. >> guest: yes and i absolutely agree, but i also understand why because he is not a professional politician, he hasn't had the same briefings, the same people sitting down and talking with him, he is starting from scratch and he is working to fight his way through it. again, i appreciate that he is lifting and trying to form a policy instead of telling usmovi what we should accept from him. yes, i would like to see some more specifics..pe i think as we move into debate time, certainly he will have to be more specific then.

sir, the fact that you call mr. trump a racist, i would like to ask, what has he done that is racist?? i don't understand this charge of racism. i don't under the stand this charge of misogyny that he hates women. what has he actually done to put women down? what has he done to keep women down? what has he done that is racist and that's why i'm offended when people say i'm a racist because i support him. you don't know my heart. i served on the board of an lgbt group, it's deeply wounding for me to call us racist because we support mr. trump. >> host: catherine is the cochair of women support trump. we appreciate you joining us on "washington journal". >> book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer.

>> i plan on doing for things specifically. the first one is bully pulpit which is about teddy roosevelt and taft. as an old history teacher, i wanted to go into that because it's a fascinating era. i should've taken from that, the author did go into a lot of journalism in the. of time and gave short shrift to some of the history that i really wanted but it was my appetite for. last year i read a book about speaker cannon and the relationship he had with teddy roosevelt and i thought that would be fascinating. he barely mentioned at it at all. i'm through it now and taft has been elected, let's see what happens. roosevelt's in in africa, life is good. that's the first one. then since i love baseball i'm going to pick up a baseball book , the gospels which i have

actually read before but i want to. reporter: again. it's about a kid who became a relief pitcher after a long way coming through the minors but it is written in such a funny style, i have to admit, in the first three chapters i was laughing out loud which was kind of embarrassing on the plane when i'm sitting next to each other. it's a well-written book and it's cool about baseball and has a lot of the inside stuff taking place in that era. the fourth is, last year when my staffers gave me a book about joe cannon. this year he is going to continue on with that trend. it gives me two of the four great speakers that i have covered. what's so fascinating about rayburn is not only was he the longest-serving speaker of the house, he was also speaker the house when they ran this place pretty good not reward punish anyone with any kind of appointment. he was one that always said i

balance the weight. he got his way but he had to do it through persuasion and whatever he did. what was the secret of being such a powerful force here in the house without having some of the other tools that other speakers had to force compliance i hope that's interesting. >> last one is another retract. when i was teaching i was trying to give people a concept of what it was like during the signing of the declaration, realizing that it's close history but it's not history. since it was it written at the end of the 60s there's a lot of concepts that are thrown in their and also it's a compilation, sam adams is a compilation in the play.

they did a good job capturing the personalities of those involved. that comes out so clearly in the play. the other thing i like about it is they used language and writing of these individuals. after we've done the place several times, then you read other stuff that written by these individuals. i remember that, it was in the play. it's it's kind of cool how the authors have done a brilliant job in weaving actual history. the language style and they were able to leave that in. when i was teaching school was great. at one time i had a kid that was debating me on whether this was realistic or not. you mean they sang back then is what he said. >> i said no this is a musical, he didn't really sing. we went on with it. one time where watching a movie and he turned around and said what were they talking about?

i finally said the revolutionary war and then he said did we win it. i realized i had a lot of work to do with this kid. >> book tv wants to know what you are reading this summer. tweet us grants or apple tv or you can post it on our facebook page, facebook.com/book tv book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading the summer. >> first of all, thank you to cspan. i have a pretty extensive reading list coming up not only for the summer but over the next year. i thought i would start off with recommendation from folks for prayer for people under pressure i jonathan aitken, written by a former member of the english parliament. i think he knows a little bit about pressure and i could learn something from him.

the second new one, troublesome young men by lynn olson has to do with the rise of a small band of conservatives in the parliament during the churchville. and i'm a member of the house freedom project and were trying to get the country back on straight and solve the financial problems and represent people more closely, do with people want to do so i think this book will give me a little motivation there. the next one, the title may not give it away but it's called on civilization by. he came in and briefed me on foreign-policy one day and just an amazing mind on foreign-policy and i learned so much i wanted to read his books. his subtitle is urban geopolitics in a time of chaos and so maybe at first glance it's an unlikely source of

grounding for international policy but some of the uncertainty and instability and chaos that we are seeing around the globe, which we are clearly seeing is driven by the urban rural split in our country. with the growth of the urban city and love of country patriotism and nationalism in the positive sense and maybe we need a bigger dose of history and some of those things. i haven't finished the book. i started reading about it and a little of it. next one, the desire of nations by oliver o donovan was highly recommended to me on political theology. obviously that's probably the issue of our day with isis and the debate over our constitution

, how did islam sit fit into this conversation. the conversation is possible but it requires some unity of thought and here's not only one nice place to be but there's a few coming up and i think we need to urge some of our brothers and sisters in the hotspot, that reparation might not be a bad idea. those are probably some of the things i will be reading about in that area. then contemporary extortion by peter sweitzer, it's been around for a while but i'm going to read it again. why are the politics broken.

everyone back home thinks there is a left-wing, right-wing wing, right wing war going on between the parties and the factions. i talked to bernie sanders at a white house christmas party and he shared my view that that's not the case. most of the case has to do with may be in the middle and doling out $4 trillion to the insiders and cronies up here in d.c. i think that's a stronger explanation for why the politics are broken and he explores that pretty well. money correlated with elections and committee assignments and everything appeared, voting records etc. he traces. he traces them all out with footnotes and evidence. the next one is a shameless plug, it's called american underdog by a congressman named david pratt so i am plugging my own stuff. it's wide ranging. i had a friend help me put it together but i put together

lecture notes over 20 years when i taught economics and basic lee, i ran on the republican creed and since then i went a little thousand foot up in the air and condense it to the three pillars that made our civilization the greatest, i think, the greatest country on earth. three pillars that hold up the foundation and they include the judeo-christian foundation, and the judeo christian tradition leads into the second tradition, the rule of law and then in 1776 also, i don't know if by divine intervention or not, you can make up your mind on that one by adam smith, the free market advocate or cross the pond in

england, scotland and doing economics and ethics as well p he was the chairman of moral philosophy. a lot of great thinkers weaving together religion, philosophy, economics, politically theology. i was in the past but not many doing it today. the next book was combat ready by thomas hansen. by all accounts our military, army, navy, air force, weakest level since post-world war ii in terms of ships, planes, et cetera so it's an analysis of combat readiness and i recommend that one highly by what i have heard. next one how god became king, again political ecology and philosophy, how god became king and not necessarily what you might think at first blush.

maybe a david and goliath and malcolm gladwell situation but in this case is a humble king. the triumph for christianity, it's a triumph of countries who have strong civil liberties and strong civil and political rights, women in the workforce, protections, also christianity and referendum, basic themes i want is explore a little more deeply. then a whopper, george washington, sacred fire, washington is just one of those amazing figures when you read about him and what others say about him, all men and women

loved him and respected him. there is something to this guy that is extra particular, extra significant. the more i read about him the more i see that but can never understand what resonates with such an important founder and some argue the founder, the indispensable man to whom all others looked up and loved and respected. it's good to take note on people like that. that is a hefty reading list and i think cspan for allowing me to share some books that i'm going to peek at and constituents know i go around and talk about this stuff at our meetings. thank you cspan for all you do and happy reading. >> book tv wants to know what you're reading this summer. to this your answer.

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doctor rudy garrity. [applause] >> thank you very much. i am very pleased to be here kicking off this first series of videos and workshops and things for this weekend. the program i am bringing to you is totally unlike anything you've ever seen before. i know people say that but when i share this with you i think you'll say why did he do this and the reason why is for the past ten years, i have been in my senior hood and after working 40 or 45 years in various agencies of the government and private sectors and a variety of things and getting various degrees, i've always always been interested in the facts that everybody i knew was sort of trying to hold on to about 50. when i got to 50 there are trying to decide if they were

going to head for retirement and whether they had the resources in the places and the choices selected so they can have a retirement at 65 or 70 and maybe that would be it for them. the the unfortunate thing about that is there's a whole new world and they didn't know this be planning for 6570, 75, 80 and they didn't know that their money and opportunities would run out and they had to think about working a lot longer. i've come to have the view that there is about 25 or 30 years of your first life and career and for adults it somewhere between 20 and 25 or little bit higher than that and immediately there's another encore opportunity or certainly another 25 years to live, probably even

longer than that for the coming generation. the question is, within our society can we afford that as individuals, can the government afford to support all those people as long as they want to live? we need to rethink about restarting our life somewhere around mid life and so we have a program that we have been doing for number of years, my partner over here and i have been working for number of years to investigate what were the best practices, what were the best strategies people have said for years that if you are going to have a good first 25 or 30 years here's what you should do as far as maintaining your health, building your character, building your ability, being a great team player and lots of folks had written for years or decades about how to make that a good life. on top of that, with community

service and generally serving the social good, we spend a lot of time as consultants and people who are involved in delivering services and training to people who want to be business process reengineering is and a large number of activities in addition to coaching people how to get more out of their life. during that time, we put together this book, the one that is in front of you which is called learner ship 2009 and it was published around january or february 2009 and it was published at that time as the idea of bringing this thinking to closure and let's do our work, not with the government anymore or the private sector but let's do it on our own so i formed and nine profit charity for the purpose of taking all of

the things we have learned and taught and take it with us as we went on. we actually created an opportunity to continue to do support contracting and things of that nature with the idea that eventually, as we were doing things like on this chart, you see something about the organization but then you see there's a lot about coaching and business management and even total organization transformation which we had a chance to do with the airport and other organizations. we were heavily involved in bringing the stuff forward with the idea of sharing it to the nonprofit community i was making money to charity and donating to charity. that restorative power to do the best we could.

he is younger than i am so chris has to maintain a regular job. i on the other hand had been retired for a long time now and don't necessarily have to do this but refused to die until i get it my way. i write it my way and share it with people and basically say this is what my researches, this is what i've been teaching and i'm not going to tell you how to do it but you should at least see all my resources and literature and things i've collected so you can build your own program for yourself. that becomes a giveaway and do that in the next few years so i can maybe act like a grandfather like everyone in my family tells me i should do. along the way, i had an opportunity to work with a gentleman who is doing a lot of work on your personal rending.

became a certified authentic brand person and wrote my book following a procedure he taught me and said this is the right answer. i had a go back and reflect on my life. after i did that i had to write down what i liked, what i didn't like, what i wanted to do and all those good things to finally get my life together. by the time i had written that book i knew i had to get my life together but i wasn't ready yet because i was area may 60s and i'm in my 70s now and my point of it is, there's a lot of work to do if you really want to continue to live your life after your first life in sort of finish. along the way i got in my mind that maybe we could take this

thing and bring it to closure. i've just done it this last year and this book, your interval life matters. this book has put the last piece together which was focusing on the 50+ generation of people which i had just been going through myself and trying to figure out what worked and what didn't work and how to do a better and what the guidance was and along the way i was using the book and resources from the life planning network and the encore organization and became aware of the certified senior advisor and i took that all his pointers thing if you can come through this, here are some things you need to think about connecting with so join up with these people. but then i said, here's the problem, i'm not ready to die yet, but if i die i don't want to have the same thing happen

that my former wife happened to her about six weeks ago. she died. she didn't expect to die, she just died and my two children had to take it over and it was a mess because she hadn't planned to die. she hadn't set up all her financial arrangements of all the things she needs to do and she left a big mess and everybody was crying and everybody was scrambling and everybody was trying to do all the things you have to do when somebody is so inconsiderate to die without leaving a plan and everything tied up and taking care of. they are still suffering six weeks later trying to get things paid off, trying to take over property with all kinds of legal fees and it was very inconsiderate of her which is probably why were not married because i probably told her she was inconsiderate many years ago before i got re- married. the point of it is, it's really a problem now because i do not want to die until i have wrapped

up my life, done all the financial things, all the help things, all the things you have to do, i want to have a place for it and the writing and my computer stuff taken care of, i want everything done so i can simply say it's all there, it's written down, guess what. i think it's my time. i'm trying to call my own time and therefore i have a written book that says why don't you take care of your life, why don't you be a lifelong learner, a serious proactive learner in your first life, a serious proactive learner and producer and doer in your second life and why don't you optimize your time on this earth. any chance you get to work through this process and may be of somebody lays out the methodology, nobody has to do with the same same as anybody else, but how about a methodology and use of resources.

that's the story that gets us started. now, with that 30,000 foot view of what were doing and why were doing it, i'm going to give you a serious starting point and this is ruby. i'm ruby, this is ruby the raven and we will tell you about the american learner ship formula and what it is how we think about what we do and then i will take it right into the 50+ generation and the things we have in this book now that will be for you. by the way, everybody, everybody in this room, if you have a business you're interested in being able to do it too, if you would like to be an affiliate, we would like to give this to you. the material you have there is yours to take. the point of it is, i'm in a distribution mode looking for people who would like to have the materials to work with and also on the website, the whole book is on the website with all

the videos and everything that has already been done. i just have to get a publisher to publish it. we are going there right now and here we go. that is the overall arching diagram that we have had for well over a decade and you can see that we are organized by personal self-fulfillment, organizational high-performance, the common good and societal enlightenment. what else would you want to do? it's really hard in anybody's life to figure out if i wanted to write down what her life was about, how would i even think about it? what would be the category? everybody who is human lives in all these domains. it's a social system network and self-fulfillment, high-performance, common good and societal enlightenment all comes from other riders who said what would you do with your life if you had a chance to do what

you wanted with your life. i adopted that model, the american learner ship forum has a focus on america which is the first big focus that we were doing and then we started the move to do charitable work and the bottom line is this is the overarching legacy from mindful way of being and it's not the mindful way of being that's currently popular in all the things that are being done these days. what i learned about the various gurus and people were doing it is that i should discard much of what's in my mind. i should watch how i view my feet, i should take everything out of my mind and pay attention to those smaller things in life because that would make me mindful. i totally disagree, i don't don't believe that's any good at all, i believe that's called

behavior modification which i used to be doing 30 years ago for stress and time management. i really believe mindfulness, if you look it up in the dictionary, mindful is the ability to take in a larger scope of things and understand that mindful is really mindful of technology and capabilities and methodologies and how to have a dynamic, active mind. learner ship is all about lifelong learning, leading towards a mindful way of being. that is let's learn the tools, let's do the things that deal with the complexity we deal with in life, something called complex at pacitti capacity. you can easily make the choices you need to make as life comes back too much too quickly. we will start off with that, without reading these all to you and by the way there in the handout, i know we've packed one

of these handouts in everybody's book and that's there for you to read. it talks about who we are and things we have to do to really succeed in this area. if you don't have it, that's okay but it tells you about who we are, what we do and how we think about things in a has our website in their and all the chapters of the book and it tells you where to go and all you have to do is click on it and you can read on it or look at the video that my partner in the back, a lot of men in black, but that man in black as an expert in audiovisual and promotion of businesses in products and services and he has done all my videotaping's for the work that you see online and it's by that gentleman right there and he's always available to help people get their story out. anyway, what do i stand for? how do i fit in?

how my relating to people? what should i do to take action, when will i discover my true calling, how can i can i become more knowledgeable and competent, how can i get through my career and how can i make my life a memorable event? this is real stuff that other people have researched and written books about what you should do in your life to answer these questions for yourself. i think them very much. usually i think them and all kinds of notes and stuff, thank you very much for those ideas. let me answer some of those questions. america learner ship is about learning and showing how your learner by how you conduct yourself and making transitions and making choices. the whole idea is individual responsibility for learning, leading leading and legacy, handling your midcareer transition and creating memorable legacies. the action is, we have this idea

of a life management center where we take these ideas and reach out to other people to be affiliates and help them run their program more successfully than perhaps were even running our own program. i'm looking to give all this stuff to other people who can add it to their own business and say in addition to what i'm doing in coaching and consulting in leading and all that stuff, i'm i'm also bringing this forward and i will be happy to share with you. it's like trying to double down or tripled down what anybody becomes an alliance member can bring to their own plan. you don't even have to teach it because i will teach it online and the courses will always be available on every aspect of the program. this is sort of the website right now talking about the american economy. i am very concerned with all the out sourcing and workers getting left behind, we have some social

economic problems that we have got to solve. we cannot push them off anymore. physically, americans have been productive people who valued the status of skilled production. we have thousands if not millions of people whose self-worth is in a decline. they're in a decline because they want to work, they know they should work and you're only valued in the economy if you start working. if you're not working you better be doing some charitable work in helping someone out. if your not working on one hand and you cannot help someone on the other hand what the hell are you doing anyway. everybody has to have a chance. stop hogging up all the landscape in the space and the government's money when you're not contributing anything to the population. but we are about is re- employing, rescaling, let's build people that have real tools, real application, let's teach them how to work in business, let's teach them to

manage their life and understand things to work their own brain and make their own brain more manipulable. let's help them learn and become motivated doers. that's what we are about. it's pretty simple. right here. systems thinking and pattern recognition, situational learning, knowledge management and adaptable leadership. if you really get into that sequence and understand how those things work today, this is an engine. this is an engine that drives personal self fulfillment. it drives organizational high performance. it is not simple if you want to keep it simple. you can have a lot of ideas but you have to think big, you have to bring things in, you have to make choices that are

reasonable, you you have to do critical thinking, you have to separate the week from the task and focus on what matters for you and your society and your country and your family, do the right thing, this is an empowerment idea. fundamentally it's very simple. all we have to do, if you understand those reasoning competencies, all you have to do is take each social system, the personal, organization and societal and all you have to do is go out there and find self-fulfillment common good and enlightenment enlightenment. how hard can that possibly be. i would like to no, is anyone here totally self fulfilled, high-performing, helping in the common good and are you contributing to human and light meant. if you are, please come up to the microphone and tell us how you've done that. who is the star when the stars who have figured all those

things out? probably nobody because it's so challenging to even think about that, but understand if nobody's ever thought about it if nobody's ever organized it and people are writing about these ideas are important, nobody is doing it, nobody is pulling the pieces together, how in the world is anybody going to really improve. you can't improve by doing the same thing over and over again when you're 2535, 45, 5565, 75, 85. don't you ever learn or grow? don't you build your mind? bottom line is, we can get there and we can do it under a great list of ideals and i have in the book, i have a declaration of independence, i have our

amendment to the constitution, i even have the un declaration of human rights because the velocity here is distinctly american. this is really, in my thinking, i only know this culture and this democracy and i only know how to talk about this. it's not for somebody else's country. this is who we are as american. we strive to be principal and everything is laid out assuming our constitution and that we are fair and reasonable people following the constitution. one of the things we start at the beginning and he goes through the book, we asked people, every time they finish a chapter how are you doing as far as your self fulfillment? if fellowship is what you're working on, how is that going for you?

if you working on high performance, are you moving into leadership because you're able to pull promote yourself as you promote others? in the community are you demonstrating citizenship? in society are you moving up statement ships where you have contributions on international affairs and very personally, i added this later on, realizing that nobody really cares about that unless you have financial security. we know that for the 50 plus group, financial security as a driver for looking at how to improve and manage your life. i think those five things right there, if you look at who's been writing about it, what's been said about it how he brought it together, how you can think about it and make a challenge for yourself and move forward, it works out pretty wellin the end for you. this is exciting because you have to be both positive and negative. that blue line talks about thinking, learning, knowing, leading and achieving. going up is becoming a knowledgeable contributing person. we start as youngsters then we go up the blue line and were

really growing faster we make families and we do our thing and we go up again has we get some things going in our life. somewhere around 45 or 55, children grow up and leave, empty-nesters are finding new places to go, people get divorced and go their own way, people are falling behind as far as their jobs and opportunities, they have to make a decision. they have to go through this midlife career reflection renewal. and decide if they're going to take the traditional blue line where i may be incrementally doing a little bit more to get my social security and the money i have and reduce my cause and hang in there. i live on golf course in your out there putting trying that darn ball in the hole. i don't do that very well, but

that's a big difference. if you can afford it all you do is play golf all day. the point of it is, eventually there's a plateau and you die. for some people, they go through a search. they find themselves up 40, 45, 50, they get a new career a more education and they find what they can do and they find opportunities and they do businesses and they go out and surgeon their life goes on and grows and grows because they never were better. it may lay a foundation there and then they can make a better decision in the middle on the have chance to have exceptional performance. what i see with the folks that are in this conference, organizations that i'm now a member of is that most of the people here are about that 51 plus, how do they get through that and how do they make life better? how do they make life a place to be where i'm growing and i felt good and i'm making friends and

making a contribution in my own way as much as i possibly can, i'm still growing and i'm a contributor and not being pushed out of society because there are room for people like me. american leadership, lifelong learning says why and how this should be and how you do this. as long as i'm here, as long as there is a job to do that i can do, as long as there is a helping hand that i can provide help with, i will be present in this life. :

hospice situation, so many people who had alzheimer's and so many others diseases, and we take away their power of personhood to decide and manage for themselves. what a sad, sad situation that is when you lose your personhood, these are the everybody else. but for everybody else, how wonderful you are for what you were doing. how wonderful it is that others will step up, take care of people who are in desperate need of being taken care. so everyone can be valued and have recognition before their time is up. and have to tell you, there's been a few times in family our

relationships were i sat by the bedside of people who were dying a new they were dying. in both cases it was painful cancer, and in one case it was my own mother who told me that she wishes that she only had a few more weeks, so some of the things we said that we could do together we would do together for scheuer. we didn't do them together. why didn't we take the time to do the things? that she desperately wanted to do? why didn't you articulate that? why didn't i listen and why was i not present for her and she needed me and she knew she was dying and she was in pain, and the last thing she thought about is what i didn't finish him why she didn't finish her life in a positive, managed, loving sense of completeness. i sat by her husband when he

died, as a veteran from world war ii. who didn't have much of the good life after that but was basically an alcoholic in a browser and not necessarily a good husband. and you look at the me and he said, rudy, i really asked up my life. i'm sorry -- effed up. i'm sorry that's what it was. two people unknown close to, plus others i have seen passed away. why should anybody passed away and feel like a time has run out, the things those with the said and done or not done. they didn't do it or those who could help them didn't do it, and when they were dead, nobody would really ever do anything like provide a memorable legacy for them.

so, it's not going to happen to me, darn it. i'm going to create my legacy. i'm going to write my own legacy. i'm going to do this work. i'm going to learn and study. i'm going to go out and do charitable work. i'm going to sell books. i'm going to help other people. whatever money that i could make with my charitable organization i'm going to give most of it away because i can afford to just have a little bit of that to keep myself going. because i am, in november, going to see 74. and i know i don't look at, because after all, you know, i keep myself up pretty well. the point of it is you never, never know. so, therefore, i have a deal with the universe. you will not take me, universe, and to i am finished with this project because it's my project and it is for others and, therefore, did not mess with me until i finish my work and share what i have been given to other

people, then i will clean my house out of all the stuff that's a joke related to this. i will clean the place up and went unsatisfied i cleaned the place up, then i will be ready to go. let me take a shower, get my right close on and i will be right with you. i want to get some fulfillment, enlightenment, financial security. i want authenticity, inspiration for legacy. about all those things and i want to make it personal and to ever learn, i want to give it away. all of you got to do is do this. [laughter] lean to what you have to look at what you have to do and where are going to put all this stuff down? so this is the integrated systems architecture, or as my friend lisa. lisa is a way to say the neurons in your brain start to synthesize around how the relationship of all the stuff

becomes integrated if you like it out in a sequential manner. so this is very, very easy to do because in the center i have situational learning. and situational learning has a lot to do with how you manage time and change and complexity. but after that you have on top of that knowledge management and have adapted leadership. basically if you seriously get your act together you can always see that even when you're sleeping, so when you're sleeping in your subconscious, it's looking whether you're working in one box to much and you should be any of the box little more, bringing ideas to you. so it becomes a mental model. my personal mental model. you make your own. you don't have to do it my way. i'm just saying once you get your mind around yourself and how you believe and how you think and how you categorize your choices in life and to taken near and give their,

because you are in the center and you don't have to stand for ever thinking about things because if you're doing this, this is related to the. that's related to this. so the real issue here is i need to be mobile. i need to be mindful. i need to understand the methodologies. i have to be committed to change. i know i can go and i can learn from the young. we have to have a dialogue. we have to spread the story out and get other people doing it. in addition to what they're already doing the anybody confirm this stuff. iit's just a matter of having saltshaker and and collaborate with them. it's a buffett table, come on down. if we discuss something you like, take it. if you don't like it, fine. who cares? i'm laying out a buffett table for people to take what they want and make up their own model. this little devil right down the middle. when i first started to test

this out so many people said, oh, my god, you want me to review this. you want me to review and give you feedback. i don't understand really, really what you were trying to do you. i said it's only everything. what's so hard? it's everything. come out of your little box and your little life and where you are with your culture in which a religion in with your friends in with your job and a little world you have been preprogrammed for all your life, and much of that stuff has been holding you back anyway if you're still holding on to that. the best thing you can do is to learn to live like other people do so you're talking about left brain, talking about all kinds of spiral dynamics that underlie these theories that says you have to recognize everybody where the art and give to

recognize the words are that distinctly indicate differences in preferences. so if you get a little training, although of the psychological tools available you can at least start to get a sense of other people and ask questions from them to find out more about them, then you can maybe start to have conversations to get things done. so my job was to say how am i going to survive this whole thing? in order to help people look at the book i said let's take this sequentially. let's understand the books, development to make integral life management a possibility. so this is pretty simple. because it says on the left is section one, and the names of the chapters are at the top, section one, two, three and four are about the a-list process, making meaning in your life, the more as a project manager and about having a personal brand

that you can sell and talk to others about. if you didn't fundamentally change learned the engine. detention is five through nine where you learn how to think better, decide better, manage the knowledge, manager skills, take action, be a leader and make achievement happen. that's a cycle like an engine. that drives the thing in the middle which is the thing i just showed you in the back, once you got that mental dynamic working for you, once you know contesting which between yourself and others and keep her target in mind, you can be flexible and open up to things, then we take into chapter 10 through 13 where you actually look at yourself and your family. then you go to the next one and look at your business and how that's run. then you look at your community

and how that's run. then you look at a society and how that's run. you analyze it, take things from it, look where you can help and make a determination if you're happy with it or how you can contribute to it. once you've done that, we will take you to 14, 15. this is were you all coming. 14 and 15 is about on court and it's about how do you make the transition from the first like to the second life. and how do you rejuvenate yourself as a productive person, how do you use the knowledge and tools and techniques to all of you in this group who are here right now, the planning people, police planning people, the encore people who love to find people who can do these kinds of things. i bring you to the point where we look at the american documents. i have it set up if you come through that, you can write your own e-book that i will help you do, or you can draft your own branding book. because i build into the book

the framework that i use for writing my books, and with the questions that say what did you learn from this and what do you want to do about this and what's special and when are you going to do it. you write those notes down as we go through the program. you collect them and you put them in the frame. guess what. we publish that. you can do with e-book and you get your recognition with your own e-book. if you want a branding book we can do that because that's appendix c. when you start doing books and writing things, guess what. for legacy purposes you now have real stuff that you have produced. that goes along with all the pictures in the files of everything else that you have left behind. it goes a long with your letter

to the friends. it goes along with your will. and so exactly goes along that you can leave it in your will that you like to have one of your children or somebody who knows you to organize a party. because you have something to say to the party. so after you do the necessary things in life to help a person pass on, somebody stands up and says come on down, we are going to celebrate this person. there's information, knowledge, things we have to share and on top of that they have some videos and adios. you will hear them and see them again. they have something to say to you. so depending upon how you construct your story, you can talk to your children, your grandchildren. do it anyway you want it to its wide open landscape of how you want to so to speak from the grave, if you will. and that helps people who just definitely don't want to move on and they will hold onto -- they

don't want to go, don't want to go, i don't want to leave. why shoul should you leave the e of things unsaid and undone? leave substance to add to your legacy. add something to it. lastly, wrapping this up so to have some time to talk. this is chapter 10, has a huge model that we can have lots of conversation about what goes on like them how you go from a psychological from a sociological point of view. just a fun conversation. here's the top level stuff for performance management and organizations. you can't find anything better than this. i do this with a number of consulting organizations in the d.c. area. it works over and over and over again for organizational transformation. we have the common good, we can discuss a business and education and government work in the commute. we can look at health care, religion, medications, public

safety, whatever. you can even have conversations about how to get the human enlightenment, how do you deal with humanitarian relief for how do you deal with racial, ethnic and all kinds of discrimination? how do you deal with educational inequality? in other words, if your life is about being involved in life kinds of decisions, we have sent you for doing that. once again we see the second chart, appendix b. basically says collect the information and then start to write the new insight that you develop, what holistic and integrated things have you learned that it helped my thinking? what i want to accomplish and leave something for posterity? and in the end, ruby, not rudy, rudy the raven has had her say all the way through from you came into this life, you got to be 2521 and you know live life

and along the way and makes a difference with the reviewer at because so much in the book applies to every life stage, in addition it applies to a social organization, community and over all way you deal with society in general. last just about. here we are, senior management. i suspect that most of you are involved in the 50-80 group on this curve. where we are, we've been coming up a meeting you have what. we been coming up from 25 up to about 65, in the intersection is now there. because we have so much to share with you to say in addition to what you were doing, if there's anything that we have that enhances your ability to deliver what you already deliver, or expansive or makes it more practical, we would like you to be basically a partner with us, or an alignment.

would like to show you how to use what we have. even if you want, even if you want, if you want to have a promotional video done, i have my friends back there, would love to work with you and said okay, i'm the guy who held rudy did this video done. i would be happy to help you have your own video production of your work to help your business succeed without information along with your information for your clients. and i can do it for nothing because he can't go for nothing but i can do for nothing, because i can say i will do the training, $390 for an orientation for eight weeks, two hours a week. i will do the orientation so you can look at the whole program and make you allies never. to also be on board of advisors as we evolve. all you have to do is put together one class of 20 people, 25 minutes, $25, you send them to us.

i will pay you back to you collect your $25. it by yourself accounted for $390. you are free and clear. you have the vitriol. you are doing it. i will share it with you. take it forward and tell other people because i have 100,000 people who want to tell about this. to our life management thing overlaps and works within the on court life planning business. this is what this chart tries to do. it's as this is where we link up. there's more material that's in there, your handout and how this all comes together. but if i'm not for myself or will be, if i'm only for myself, what am i? if not now, when i say the time is now to get people moving forward helping seniors take from what they've had before, but it's on before i make a better life in most of you are doing that already. so thank you very much.

now, we've got eight minutes left for questions. what i'd like to know is out of all that you for, this is just a fast brush of what's possible, there is so much available that we can do and we already have some alliance members we can get other people to come get other people to come on board and do a lot of things. what can't be done? what things couldn't you think of that what you do that couldn't a better? first is going to take some notes as to questions you might have. by the way, on the back of, i have a piece of paper i handed out to you like this right here. this is the synopsis of the whole program. if you go to the website, if you come outside where we are you will see we have something running that explained purpose, perspective, process, results in legacy. this is how we work.

and on the back it says why don't you come to the webinar? i have a free webinar on tuesday wednesday that teach information and tell you how to sign into the webinar. let's talk some more. you to ask a lot of questions. the goal is for you to take the material you have, let chris know who took the material, right? fellow your name and phone number or something like that, iand come in, get more information. there's no obligation to this is about learning, about sharing, about helping people. to everybody also about it because we want to people and get thousands of people helping each other but actually giving stuff away. this is knowledge sharing the i'm a member of the george washington university knowledge sharing group. and have been teaching knowledge management for about five years. we know that shared knowledge can be valuable knowledge. you just don't know what people are going to put it to work. so we're willing to do that. i want to ask the question that

says maybe this is what i think about it, maybe you're failing to adjust to do something that needs to be done. or can you do this? please come up to the microphone and just please ask something that you've been thinking while i've been running through this. i do it fast because it's only the 30,000 view, 30,000 miles view. 30,000-foot view. 30,000 miles, space station. anybody? this rage and and then i'll ask you to come to the microphone. how does this strike you? crazy? not a good use of done? please come up to the mic right here. [inaudible] >> okay.

people are set as you suggested in the life pattern, the linear malik of life instead of a cyclical model where we keep cycling back. in adult education you start with, then go into self-directed learning. i've been fascinated by mass arose transformation plan can steps. do we need to transform ourselves in order to apply this? we can do the linear model any longer it seems using this model. we have to find new ways to transform ourselves and change our thinking and our reflection in order for this to work. >> i think it does. i'm very familiar with that methodology and taking responsibility for your own learning. i've also done an awful lot of programs and projects in which i was the cultural change agent. i was the guy who just about all the training company training going on to make sure people could get ahead and follow the

new policy. i know the resistance is absolutely unbelievable. the whole idea of cognitive conversation in changing people that way is very, very suspect that a lot of money. i have made some really good money on projects that give you anything more than is about half of what we thought we were going to do. it seems like you almost have to grab somebody and say, don't ask any questions. this is how you're going to do your job. this is the rule you're going to follow. as long as i fear you will do it that way. even though you hate me and even though you hate me, you are going to do it my way. i forcing people to change their behavior and when that works, they will sometimes grudgingly say, you know, son of a gun, i really didn't like that program, i didn't like that person and he made me do it and i hate it when

they make me do. the answer is to be smart enough and courageous enough to take a chance and give someone else a chance and tell them to do it differently. so you are so right but it's hard, so what we have here is to get to the person. it says, ask a question, are you as good as you think you are? how well do you do in a team environment? what you need to improve? it's not about me, it's not about him or. we're talking about you. we are talking about how great a coach are you. when was the last time a coach said he made a difference in the life? when was the last time as a consultant you delivered the results? so this is all about very practical. if you don't live for something that someone else values, you haven't done anything that matters in your life. that's a problem with education when it's mostly cognitive, is

we all agree on things when we are debating politics and religion, right? this program absolutely has the principle that says we shall not dedicate our valuable time debating religious perspectives or cultural perspectives or partisan perspectives where you can never come out with anything. that means getting something done. it's basically saying everybody in, but we will not go to areas where we know we can't ever agree on things because there's too much friction and it's frustrating. let's figure out, open mind, maybe we can help each other get something done, and you can take yourself and say it's mostly about me because i'm going to grow me. i had the courage to say i'm not good enough. the challenge here is you've got to be good enough to be able to take the challenge on. our goal is to find people who would want to excel and get up on that curve, and they will

make their way going forward into the second life. i don't care whether that 60, 70, 80, 90, 100. even if you're in a wheelchair in can't hardly walk, you can still be doing and saying and helping other people. there is a way to be of value to the society. any other questions? thank you very much. i turn it back over to gasoline. maybe make some summary comments. thank you so much. >> thank you. [applause] >> so everyone is now invited to the 2016 creative longevity and wisdom outstanding scholar practitioner award luncheon that will be taking place in the senatthesenate room. that luncheon is brought to you by the society of certified senioradvisors and the american learnership forum. so thank you, everyone, for being here. >> take your material. i would love to from you either at one of the 7:00 webinars on tuesday or wednesday or thank

you very much. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

[inaudible conversations] >> you will hear more from this conference on wellness and aging and about, at about 1:15 p.m. a panel on housing option for seniors. it would be a panel later on health assuring for seniors. wrote to the widest coverage continues later today as senator tim kaine takes part in a voter registration rally at florida a and m. c-span will have live coverage at 2:15 p.m. eastern from tallahassee. here's some background on the ad strategies of the campaign. >> $60 million, that's enough hillary clinton campaign has spent so far in the general election. 4 million by the donald trump

campaign. joining us on the phone is associate editor of the hill newspaper is to look into these numbers. thank you for being with us. >> guest: my pleasure. >> host: let's go to the hill line -- headline. how significant is this? aspecgas but i think it is very significant. i think the number of elements to this. one is the sheer disparity in the number that you just mentioned. that is highly unusual at the presidential level do not have campaigns at least somewhat on equal terms. the other important facts that this is relatively early in the campaign, the height of summer and we've seen in the past the capacity for one nominee to really paint the opponent into a corner during this kind of face of the campaign. it happened with outside groups, for example, attacked senator john kerry in 2004.

i think when you put those two factors together it is significant. >> host: we're talking money just in the campaigns themselves, not the super pacs supporting either donald trump or hillary clinton. those numbers get higher especially for the pro-clinton campaign? >> guest: that's right. the clinton super pacs have outspent the trump super pacs by sniffing margins as well. when you put it all together, the pro-clinton advertising spend my last week which is the most recent data we have had reached over $100 billion. around 104. that outspent all approach will advertise by a margin of around nine to one aspect the clinton campaign is focusing on key battleground states. the trump campaign so far with a focus on florida, ohio, pennsylvania and north carolina, four states they insist are a must when it is any chance of getting to 270 electoral votes. let's look at some of the ads on the air.

>> i'm hillary clinton and i approved this message. >> clear thinking. >> i know more about places than the generals, and believe me. >> and you can tell them to go -- themselves. >> all it takes is one wrong move. >> i would bomb the -- out of them. just once. >> inheritance america the system stays rate against americans. refugees flood. our border open is more of the same but worse. donald trump america is secure terrorist and dangerous criminals kept out. the border secured. our families safe. change that makes america safe again. donald trump for president.

.. there's negative can painting and to some extent that leads to an interesting cut question and one that the strategists on both sides differ. >> let me take that one step further because you talk about a virtual circle with these ads and the impact they have on polls and news coverage. >> yes this was a point that was made by one strategists that i spoke with for the story. his argument was if ads are

perceived to begin to work, for example north carolina has been a republican leaning state, hillary clinton is very competitive, perhaps in a bit of a lead there now. this argument was that leads to increased interest from democrats and makes it easier to recruit volunteers for the campaign and may boost fundraising. in other words, ads lead to the momentum and the momentum creates the virtuous circle. >> the trump campaign would argue that donald trump did not spend a lot on ads in the primary. is it different or do they know something we don't know? >> they would argue that donald trump is such an unusual candidate that he can rely upon his own personal appearances, his speeches in the interviews he gives to reduce the effect of the gap in ads, but i do think

there is a difference between the primary and the general election. i think a primary bias nature, you are appealing to an audience or an electorate that is broadly speaking, in agreement with your views. at general election when you need to expand your voter base and appeal to people who are not that persuaded of the correctness of your views is a different dynamic. >> so based on your research from the 96 campaign, the 2004 campaign and president obama and 2012, when the books are written on the 2016 campaign and the focus on this month, august, what will focus on this month, august, what will they say about the clinton campaign, the ad strategy and the trump campaign question what. >> i think they will say they really try to press home its advantages while the trump campaign has been somewhat reeling from a series of

missteps. i think there well could be an argument if hillary clinton wins this election that this month was pivotal because it did enable her to go up on the air most unopposed by the trump campaign when they were only beginning their national ad campaign and that may well be seen as a serious mistake just as some of the other examples we've cited are referred to a not fashion. >> the negative campaign ads between the trim clinton and the trump campaign and the story and the story available at the hill.com. associate editor, thank you very much for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> the hill has a goal this afternoon, the justice department is urging the supreme court to leave in place a lower court ruling that struck down one of the nation's toughest voter id laws in north carolina. a federal appeals court ruled that these eight voter id law

was restrictive for african-americans. broadening the types of ids allowed at the pole is also increasing the time. for early voting. the they have asked to modify the law but they said it would dramatically increase the possibility of mistakes and confusion. you can see this case coming up this afternoon. we will have it for you at about 5:45 eastern. >> book tv on c-span2, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend. here are some featured programs this weekend. saturday at 10:00 p.m. eastern on "after words", the presidential candidacy of donald trump is the subject of syndicated columnist and coulter's latest book, in trump we trust. it argues that moderates, conservatives and democrats should support tempered she is interviewed by tucker carlson,

editor-in-chief of editor-in-chief of the daily caller. >> i think he is a genuine a trip and loves the country and i think he looked around and saw so many things going wrong that he can fix. it's in that opening speech, he said something to the effect of, if we don't stop this now it will be too late. it. it will be unsalvageable. >> on sunday at 7:30 p.m. eastern, the bureau chief april ryan moderates race in america, a panel discussion on race in relation to the news, politics and american culture including an examination of the rise in racial incidents, their origins and possible solutions. then at ten eastern, former twitter advisor and facebook product manager talks about his book chaos monkeys which gives an insider's perspective on the silicon valley tech world and examines the future and impact of online marketing at social

media. also this weekend, the washington post reports on america's nuclear arsenal, former army sniper niclas irvine recounts his missions in iraq and afghanistan. david rolfe on the movement to increase workers wages. go to booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >> while congress continues with its summer break, we are keeping tabs on what some members are doing. carolyn maloney is on wall street today and she rang out the new york stock exchange opening bell with this group of women. honest in 1920, the 19th amendment to the constitution was passed giving women the right to vote. ninety-nine years later in 1971, congress approved a resolution designating august 26 of each year as women's equality day. next, political strategists and campaign campaign consultants talk about engaging minority

voters and encouraging progressives to run for office, a group they call the new majority. this panel is part of a recent conference. [inaudible conversation] >> good afternoon good afternoon everyone thank you for joining us. today at net net roots nation. we have such an amazing panel of experts and conversation coming up for you today. there are two things that we need to be thinking about in the middle of this very important election year. we have a presidential campaign that's being settled with next week being the republican national convention and then following the democratic

national convention. we have senate campaigns that will determine whether the democrats will wrest control in the senate, we have so much at stake, but what we found is that our politics need to evolve, our political system, how campaigns are run, who are the prime voters, what prime voters, what are the issues, how do we talk about and talk to our voters, how how do we strategize to win as a progressive movement, all of those things are directly influenced by how dramatically our demographics have changed and the fact that electorally speaking, we saw that in the book brown is the new white that we actually have select world

majority is going to need new strategy in order to engage and make sure that not only our politics reflect new strategies but our leadership and our issues reflect the hopes and dreams and vision of those of us who are the majority in this country. this session is about kind of politics that goes deep into how we run our political system and also our vision of who should be involved and who should be the center. not just a democratic policy but it's bigger than that, it's it's our vision for our country's future.

i'm extremely thrilled to have a panel of national experts in the new politics renew america majority here. first i am amy allison, the senior senior vice president of powerpack plus which is an organization of, a pact that promotes the new america majority politically and has recently released democracy in color which is a multimedia platform that is the voice of the new american majority. we have a new blog, we have a podcast and the idea is for us to examine these kinds of issues so today, the recording will be on a democracy in color podcast as well as your questions. we will spend about an hour in conversation and then we will end with your questions coming up. to introduce our panel, first i want to introduce the president of new american leaders project.

the only organization in our country that is dedicated to renew americans into the political process. [applause] chuck rocha is the president of solidarity, the largest person of colors political consulting firm in the nation. please, thank chuck for joining us. [applause] carol mcdonald, senior senior strategist with 76 words, a democratic media firm owned by women and people of color. thank you so much for joining us carol. [applause] i would like to do this, i would would like each one of our esteemed panelist to come up and talk with us for a couple of moments and then we will come together in conversation. some good? alright.

i'm looking forward to the conversation and let's begin with. >> thank you and think you all for not staying in your lunch too long in coming here. i will keep you awake for little bit and talk about probably one of the most important issues to me personally, a man of color who is working campaigns for 25 years. my first election was in 1994. i'm going to tell my age, i shave all of my gray hair off. my first election was and richard and richard. as you can tell i am not from st. louis or washington d.c., i am from texas hence why i speak like an old white man, but think about a man of color who speaks like an old white man and that's our new american majority. who is this rising new american electorate. who are we? we are young people were people people of color, lots of

different multi- generational, multiethnic and we are who america talks about a lot but our politicians don't talk to. this slide should show you all the different faces when i was thinking about the american majority, it was these faces. it was these faces for a reason. it was these faces because all of these faces are former or current employee of mine. solidarity strategy has hired 54 different people in the six years we have been in existence and over 50 of those were people of color. this is just 25% of our former employees and the ones in red are current employees. only put the staff together, we wanted to represent america. luis is a dreamer who a chick dreamer who was born in mexico. roberto was my vice president and is now a managing director of women in color pr firm in washington d.c.

even kira, former ms. america whose family is from russia, she is an immigrant. this woman's father was killed in africa and came here as a refugee. kalin who is now the national latino vote director for hillary clinton, what do you get when you work around people who have like mindedness like yourself? you get to work in solidarity in other firms much like carols from where he can mentor a network and meet other people, be inspired, share your ideas. i. i tell people all the time my staff brings me new ideas every day. i learn the way of modern new young person of color actually looks at politics. solidarity strategy, believe it or not was one of the lead general consulting firms behind bernie sanders. bernie sanders spent more money on people of color in the history of the elections.

he hired more people of color on firms to do regular consulting or any consulting at all that any person at all in the primary election. my firm was the biggest recipient of the he didn't hire us to go talk to other brown folks or two other mexican rednecks like mice. we did the work in sat at the table with him. when he put us in charge, this is who we hired, more folks like us. that makes us makes us better as a campaign. some of the topics that we will talk about and why bernie sanders did as well as he did with people of color under 30 to 5, how how did an old white man from vermont, a self-avowed, win people of color under 35. they are normally not your prime voter colors. why was he winning these people? because we targeted them and when talk to them. we had a lot of money to go

figure out different models but let's take one state where everybody signed up on our website if they loved bernie sanders. in oregon or texas, let's talk about texas. the reddest state estate of red. by january of this year, 157,000 people had signed up on the bernie sanders website in just texas. we took all of those names and addresses and phone numbers and we created models, models of people who are likely bernie sanders supporters. guess what model they didn't fit in. they didn't fit in a campaign in a box. the reason that our new american majority gets overlooked is that they might not be those prime voters. they not fit in the box. oh their black or brown or asian oh, if they've never voted, when i cling to talk to them. if they do vote were to move them to a gop box i get stopped

at the very end. bernie sanders didn't do that. he was not going to win the primary on regular democratic voters. they were locked down for hillary clinton as they should have been. he had to expand the universe but he expanded it this way, not the other way. we don't lastly, nontraditional approach where thousands of new registrants inform us. in oklahoma alone there were a hundred and 20000 new registrants. in florida nine which is the orlando area, i estimate there were 13000 latinos who had some voting history. but because i'm running the campaign i said let's check, and he knew people of color have registered there in the last six months because of the

presidential camp pain whether it's hillary or bernie and it was 8500 people of color. guess what. nobody would ever target those people because they had never voted. we are, i'm going to send them some mail. i love sending mail. were also going call them and send them some advertising to see if they're interested in the man running for congressional seat there. but that's just because the old mexican is running the campaign. that's the difference here. when we are in charge of doing this at every single level we speak outside the box. this is why things need to change. take. i will turn it over to the next and will talk up the strategies and how you put them into effect. the last light we put up was just a lot of the digital and mail and texting programs that we had in hiring lots of beautiful black brown asian faces in the campaign to

actually deliver that message. [applause] >> carol mcdonald. >> hi carol. >> hello, i brought my fan club. give me a second while we switch powerpoint presentations. how is everybody. i am from the south so that is very important. we practiced before we got here. my presentation has my prompt and a picture of my daughter because i always say that when i come to places here i feel like i'm in a room full of experts i hope i have something new to impart to you. when my presentation goes sideways i always search for

picture of my girls because she's adorable. again my name is carol mcdonald, i work work in a firm called 76 words. one of the things that i want to piggyback off of what chuck mentioned, we are a firm that is owned by women and people of color. there are four of us. we have a latino woman and hispanic woman and one white male as well. there are a lot of firms that look like us. we have staff and interns who are all young people of color. what that does for us is it changes the way that we have those conversations. it changes the way we think about our clients and how we represent them, both of our clients of color and we have clients not of color. one of the things that i noticed

when i am in places like net roots, although i will give this organization a lot of credit over the past few years as being very deliberate about diversifying the participants in the conferences and the presenters, i've been doing politics and political work for 20 years. you go to places like washington d.c. and america votes. i was asked to speak on those topics and a lot of what i hear from my fellow consultants, and this is going to be a loving calling in of our community and people who do this work is that you have a lot of white people who are in messaging and media like i am and they talk about how they take a general message that they've developed for whatever campaign and whatever candidate and then how to adapt

it to communities of color, how to we adapt this for a latino audience or younger audience. as we have talked about before, if the demographic of our country is shifting and if the demographic of the voters are becoming more black and brown and young, why are they the side audience and why are we not keeping them as the main audience. and you treat them as the primary audience, then everything has to shift and everything has to look different than it does now. we are at a tipping point and we can no longer consider black and brown voters and young voters as a secondary audience. as we look at nontraditional approaches and you dig deeper into the voter file and you stop just looking for those voters that have voted consistently in the last three or four or five elections. it changes the picture completely.

i really wanted to show, will and what i have an example of is how does the product differ with voices of color and women and young folks and unmarried folks and those of us from nontraditional blended families when we are at the decision-making tables, what are are the differences, i actually am, when some of the other speakers have gone that have tried to figure this out because the interactive part of this exercises for for you to look at it and help us illuminate and point out what some of those differences are so that a very different amazing clip that i want to share with you. before i let go of the mic i want to and knowledge one of the clients in the room. she is the city treasury here in st. louis and is running for reelection and i'm thrilled that

her firm will help her in that effort. what we need are more of her of the world, moving away from the electorate and electing those who are in office. she has been a tremendous asset to the city of st. louis and brings a very different perspective to the politics, one that is so we are thrilled to support candidates like her and were building out practices of supporting women of color, particularly black women as we see collected office - i am going to turn it over to my fellow panelists and then find a way to make this work. >> thank you.

[inaudible conversation] i have my own show and tell. they are live. there are three here today. they didn't know they were going to be called out but i'm going to call them out because then you guys can call me out if i say things that are not true. help look for them on the ballot in arizona and orange county. i want to tell you a little bit about why i started this organization and what we do. i think the thought is that i'm doing the longview but actually we have 30 people on the ballot in arizona and orange county which are core areas that we

been working over the past two years. into the when we were in the middle of another exciting presidential election, i was sitting around the table in d.c. with immigrant right have a we're talking and what had gone wrong and how we're going to fix it. how we were going to get immigration reform with the new president. we didn't know if president obama would win. here we are with no immigration reform. at the time when we were having a conversation, what i realized as we were constantly ourselves but it was the people who were in office that and they were in office at the local and state level. that's the work that we do. training people to run for office because they're deeply

connected to the community and understanding experiences of their communities and that they can go on and win campaigns and govern ways that are more responsive to immigrants and people of color. there are three strategy central to how we do our work. we don't see immigrants as an outreach strategy. we see him, anyone who identifies with that experience is very core and central to the work that we do. the way that we do that work is to conduct our campaign training in a way that was designed for this population. it's not, here's the campaign training, here's how we've always done it and let's go get more diversity. our strategy is one of inclusion that says you can talk about your immigration experience in a way that can affect and reach voters of all backgrounds. you can talk about targeting in

a way that's not just about voters. you can fund raise even in the communities that are often portrayed as low income what and thinkers not makers and you can create opportunities for them to feel like they are part of the american democracy. we are really doing some campaign came campaigning in a different way that is designed with front and center. it's changing the way democracy works. that's the first thing, not seeing immigrants is just a strategy where you plop down. second we reframe the conversation around policymaking as not a conversation that's just about how you create a policy and go and translate it or figure ou