if you've got a system with a strong authorizer who is weeding out the worst schools and replacing them with schools operated by the best operators, and is bringing in new blood to create new schools, and is watching these numbers, that kid is going to have a much better chance of being in a decent school. the new orleans, 60% of the kids

at the time of katrina went to schools in the bottom 10% statewide on performance. mostly test scores. now 10% do. just like the rest of the state. the point is there are not too many bad schools left in new orleans because they have a system that weeds them out. there are some, then you to keep weeding them out. it's not perfect, but far better for the kids to have that reality. that a sort of static neighborhood-based school system in which most of the schools are bad. >> "after words" errs on booktv every saturday at 10 p.m. and sunday at 9 p.m. eastern. you can watch all previous "after words" programs on our website booktv.org. >> trump has enough resources anytime you could knock you out

but in addition trump did something i couldn't have done as a look back on one of the great acts the genius in american politics, comparable to fdr indenting the fireside chat. trump, nobody in the city, this is part of what i wrote understanding trump, know what nobody in the city understand his donald j. trump had a prime time television show for 13 years. it was the top job in the country for four years. because of wasn't on pds and because it didn't follow down abbey nobly in this city understood that some people, so nobody in the city said the day he announced a guy who knows television that will is by definition formidable. trumpet learn and writes about this in the art of the deal pretty decisively, what trump had learned in new york in the 80s was that any publicity which print your name correctly built strength. and so he was happy, this is

part, i think he should modify what is doing in terms of tweets and all of because i told him i think 10% less trump would be 100% more effective. but he had figured out early on that if he could engage the media, that the hunger of the 24 hour a day cable news system and the power of facebook and twitter meant he could just take all the air out of the room. all these of because running around raising money in order to be able to buy pdfs to be on television. trump would get up in the morning, he would tweet. that would set up his argument with "morning joe." he was going to "morning joe" who would always take his call and do it argue for 25 minutes. then he would call into "fox and friends" and they would have lovefest for 25 minutes. then he would have breakfast and is already generated, and so all morning the media is covering the argument that trump is in the middle of.

then about 10 a.m. he would do a press event to keep the momentum up. then about ten anything he would do an hour of handy for free. so in the course of an normal trump day he's about $1 million free media. meanwhile all of his competitors are off the air running around the country trying to raise money to be able to get on the air. what was happening was just the share name id. there's only one poll in the entire campaign were trump is not had for the nomination. people tend to forget this. he was a front runner the day he announced except for one poll where dr. carson pulled ahead. and yet nobody in the elite media could say, it's still interesting example. nobody i in the media could sayo themselves if he's a front runner, every single poll, could it be he's the front runner? because everybody in the washington elite new you couldn'couldbe the front runnern everything they believed it would be crazy and since they could be crazy, he have to be crazy and he is crazy he could

be the front runner. even though he was the front runner. this went on. i'm in a situation where i'm watching the so-called experts who by the way have learned nothing, i mean, the stuff you get on tv today is as stupid and as wrong as the people who laugh when he announced, the people who laugh in the primaries, who laughed at the convention, the people who laughed at the general election. they did know anything because again because it's a repudiation of their own life. their choice is i complete in the fantasy which at least validates me or i can decide the world is really changed dramatically and that invalidates me. i think the fantasy. that's literally where we are right now which dramatically, and will be interesting to see of the debts continues for the next three years because i think roger trump will figure out and ankle to break out of all this in a way that will be historic. >> using people have learned from the campaign? >> look at the whole russian fantasy. what happened election night was

the democrats said hillary can't have lost. certainly donald trump can't have one, so somebody cheated. putin cheated. do you realize that this is all putin's fault? that means a must of inclusion. do you realize they must have included? for the lots six but anyway and walked around chanting watch for the russian connection, look for the pollution. turns out even diane feinstein the ranking democrat on the intelligence committee says there is zero evidence of collusion. the newest one is but there was obstruction of justice over the collusion. so the fantasies that didn't occur is now being replaced by,, technically president of united states cannot obstruct justice. president addressed this is a chief executive of the united states. if you wants to fire the fbi director all he has to do is 500 somebody said the other day, if john f. kennedy had fired j. edgar hoover over investigating and wiretapping martin luther king, jr. would people have

thought it was obstruction? so there's not really collusion. so what's the latest leak from the "washington post" whose record by the way of running anonymous leaks is actually beaten the "new york times," an enormous achievement and they give the post-credit that in the energy and enthusiasm they have been even more consistently wrong than the times which is actually in the olympics of stupidity and enormous enormous challenge. so the latest thing is robert mueller who will not be able to get anything on russia will not be able to get anything on obstruction is not going to look at finances. what you're seeing of course is, this is why when i was speaker i oppose renewing the independent counsel act because what happens is you bring in l bunch of high-priced lawyers, they give up the regular career. they will look for a scout, find somebody, the fitzgerald case where comey brought in the god father to his children,,

fitzgerald, in order to appoint him a special counsel when they knew there was no crime, because in fact, valerie planck had already come was no longer a protected then at the cia and they knew whodunit, richard amitabh had leaked it. they still appointed and him a tenet counsel who probably decide his mission was to get dick cheney. it is the most grotesque example of a mischaracterization of justice and the danger of the power of the government. the back and look at the case. that's what i'm very worried about robert mueller, now these bad person, he's a patriot, a guy who served with great distinctive did not. i have no doubt he is a person who's going to do his best but he is surrounding himself with a collective group of people were going to engage in a witchhunt and i encourage everybody to actually arthur miller's the crucible which is about the witchcraft trials and late 17th century in salem.

that's the mentality of the left. the left is engaged in the salem witchcraft process. we know some is evil, somebody is bad. i wonder who we should burn at the stake? maybe it's you, whoever you are. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> my name is joe hickman. i'm the author of a new book "the convenient terroirst." i'm a writer. i freelance and i've written for "newsweek," vice news, "time" magazine, and i am an professor of law at seton hall university and also a senior research fellow at the center for policy and research. it's a think tank in new jersey that deals with national security issues. today i am here at barnes & noble in green bay getting a book site on my book, "the convenient terrorist." this is my third book.