so i have no curiosity about them anymore. i don't think about them. i'm now completely absorbed in thomas edison. >> you want to predict the year that book will be written? >> no, i don't. >> i tried earlier. the book we've been talking about is this living hand and other essays available on paperback. we thank you very much. >> thank you. >> for free transcripts are to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q&a.org. they are also available as c-span podcasts.

>> retired professor debate d inesh. the topic is what it's of great about america. great about america. >> you started out as a revolutionary and you start out a charge obamade the u.s. capitol. here is my question. you talked about teaching and being an educator and doubt and wonder. my question is, what happened to the old revolutionary? it is still alive or has he thrown in the towel? >> i feel like i am still a revolutionary. if by revolutionary you mean, having a fully worked out program by which we can imagine

a different world and also a government and will forward, no, i am not. if you meet someone who is trying to make sense of the contradictions and fight for more peace and justice and more balance and be willing to live with ambiguity and complex and will ford, sure, i am someone who sees a fundamental change. i will give you one example. against white supremacy which i invited everyone to join is a struggle that goes on. it has not ended. and it takes on different forms. it is not slavery or jim crow. the destruction of voting rights, the mass incarceration of black men in prison, that is why supremacy today. that is what we should be fighting. hosted bytheir debate dartmouth college covers war and civil rights and economics. you can watch at monday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span.

>> the british house of commons is in recess. we will bring you some of this year's western conservative summit with featured speaker sarah palin. after that, a hillary clinton super pac. and later, a look back at richard -- richard nixon's resignation and the secret audio recordings. >> sarah palin finished in the top three and presidential straw poll at the western conservative summit. the former vice presidential candidate and alaska governor address the group last month calling for the impeachment of president obama and critiquing his foreign-policy. she spoke for about half an hour. month's western conservative summit in denver. ♪ ♪

>> ♪ all the small things who cares ♪ >> thank you so much. thank you so much. i am just so happy to get to be here. it is so nice to get to thatcipate in something ccu is in charge of. they do so much good. they are like light out there in the education arena. we appreciate ccu. the students who are here, keep up the good work, and all the officials and staff. keep up the good work. it is nice to be back in the mile high city. it is absolutely beautiful. flying in, we are over your snow capped hills. i think you call the mountains. i flew in from alaska.

so gorgeous. step off the plane. todd reminds me, we are in colorado. don't inhale. [laughter] so, the president was here last week. he was getting his rocky mountain high on. busy week for him. from one scandal to another scandal. must've had vertigo. the middle east exploding in with our opene border crisis. no time to visit the border, but time to shoot some pool, wet his whistle, and green real big for s that hey photo op really, really hates. he raked in big box at the parties with fatcats. his term, not my term.

this, in a border state, he was. the president so disparages these cats in public, but in private, there's a whole lot of and tummynd purring tickling with the one who feeds them. is not athem, politics passionate cause. it's a money. it's a business. and when the crony capitalists gather, wining and dining with their pal the president, the rest of us are on the menu. where not invited to the party. where the forgotten man. during the great depression, president roosevelt spoke about the forgotten man. the man at the bottom of the totem pole. fdr said he wanted to help with his new deal.

but big government under that new deal, the policies hurt more than they help. the depression last longer, and unemployment even worse. sound familiar? story today. government bloats. up.y capitalists eat it they are swallowing that largess. inclined to keep government big, wasteful -- there is those who profit from it. the permanent political class. both sides of the aisle, they feed off this. the rest of us. today, we are the forgotten man. the forgotten man is the hard-working middle class who just cannot seem to get a break. income flat lines. making less than a decade ago.

worried about the mortgage, college tuition, retirement. worried about putting food on the table. the forgotten man is the college grad who voted for that hope and change stuff, but now can't find a job. losing hope. got no change. soldierotten man is the that we sent off to war with a hip hip hooray. look at them today. forever scarred from that battlefield. and now, now they need that conversation that they earned. they were promised by a grateful nation. they were shuffled around the v.a. and denied that rations chair. they are made to wait? some die waiting. -- while bureaucrats make themselves raises.

she has a tea party and wants to champion the blessings of liberty. but soon finds herself a target of the irs. and when she complains about it, no one listens. until the head of the irs finally has to admit to the wrongdoing. and even when crystal clear evidence stares the president in the face, he lies. he says, there is no corruption at all. not even a smidgen. man gothe forgotten used to being lied to. benghazi. withdent got us into a war libya without congressional approval. our ambassador big for security, was ignored, then murdered when

the consulate was attacked, as predicted, by savage muslim terrorists. americans there were left behind to die. then obama helped spread the lie that spontaneous protest -- it was over youtube. it was to blame for this highly organized and premeditated attack. the forgotten man is used to obama's lawlessness. can use as another example amnesty. well, congress refused or declines to pass the dream act. they did not want amnesty. they knew the people did not want amnesty. so no dream act. but the dreamweaver, he waved his magic wand, and obama unilaterally enacted his own, which created the current crisis we are seeing as illegals are pouring in.

to collect what he legally promised them. i do not know if there is any democrats in this crowd, but if there are democrats who may be will watch later, i want to ask democrats. come on. was goingthe one who to part the waters and calm the cities and sink every shot, or whatever that fairy was back in 2008 -- do you really still support the obama doctrine? get a reward. his incentives are invitations. it is going to get worse. and now the forgotten man is working class from all backgrounds, all races. immigrantsand legal are forced to compete for limited jobs and services, against this flood of illegal immigrants.

and if you think it is only those precious, innocent on tv,n -- you see them and they are being abused by their parents. any parent who would send them on such a journey, up to america's disintegrated redline -- it is not just the innocent children. nothing is there to sift out the bad guys. the gang bangers and the terrorists. they will be mixed in there. and we are offering to take care of them. i think it's insane. america the unfunded charity? [applause] but then again, if you agree -- common sense sense is an endangered species in d.c.

we are offering to strengthen them, and we are going to be if america will not secure the borders, it is not immigration. it is invasion. you know we are trillions in debt. cities insolvent. and overrun health care system. police departments, schools, and welfare states, stretched to the match. ordinary americans know this. politicians, rich pro-amnesty pals in silicon -- theyr on wall street can afford the best security border that money can buy in their own exclusive gated communities. they are not worried. haulingce they are not

illegals through those swanky hoods in d.c., manhattan, or seven cisco. they are housed in vacant schools in working-class neighborhoods. why not harvard and colombia? put them there to. school is out for summer. millions of americans are out of work. amnesty supporters, they don't want to hire and pay american workers a decent wage, evidently. they would rather replace them with foreign labor, because it is cheaper. the forgotten man. he believes that if you play by the rules, you can still earn a decent living, and the dignity that comes with that. you can get ahead. you can work hard and lay a foundation of success for your children.

they can finish what you started. lost whennow, that is some people don't have to play by the rules, and those at the top collude to drive down wages of american workers by replacing them. what the forgotten man has is believed in this exceptional nation. no one is going to fundamentally transform our nation.

maybe the amnesty mistake with supporters. i bet he would never make it like let us learn. he stood up for the working man. opportunity.

and that is where the reagan democrats did for him. the first president i voted for was ronald reagan and my mother was beside herself when she asked me why would i vote for him and i told her i did not plan on -- this is our message. this is what we stand for, you want to win big in the midterms 2016?n big in listen to a guy who still wants to believe in the american dream. the little guy. who might not afford a seat at the table of the froufrou fundraisers, but we don't grudge success.

they celebrated. and they want to achieve it themselves by doing right. make government live within its means. keep it limited. protect liberties. allow prosperity. it is understanding that the constitution is not a tool for government to restrain the people. as patrick henry said, it's an instrument for the people to restrain the government. [applause] what's right is standing for freedom, and a culture of life, and respecting our united states military, and letting free markets create jobs, and securing the borders to protect those jobs. [applause]

it means, mr. president, defending our borders, defending our constitution and our rule of law. that's your job, mr. president. these days, you hear all of these politicians announcing barack obama, saying he is a lawless, imperial president, and ignores court orders and changes laws by fiat, and refuses to enforce laws he just does not like. that's true, but the question is, politicians, what are you going to do about it? [applause] let's call their bluff. i'm calling their bluff, cause we need a little less talk and a lot more action. there's only one remedy for a president who commits high crimes and misdemeanors, and its impeachment.

it's the i word. [applause] i will tell you why. you don't need those fancy law degrees hanging on your wall to know that laws are not being enforced today. illegal immigrants all over the world know that. i don't need lectures from eric holder, a guy so incompetent he denied voter fraud existed even after someone claims they were eric holder and they got his ballot and they voted in d.c. dear eric. not many cabinet members in u.s. history have been held in

contempt of congress, that if he wants to weigh in, maybe he can tell his boss. get out of the bubble. go to the working-class communities. see consequences of deliberately not enforcing the law. see what happens. see the people, the effect. and eric, instead of shamelessly playing that race card again, try to get it that illegal immigration hurts all americans, all races and backgrounds. even cesar chavez opposed it, because he knew it hurts legal immigrants and our working-class, fighting for decent wages. it's a nonpartisan issue. and that race is in charge -- it's disgusting false charge.

just because someone opposes a failed, unjust agenda, that makes you a racist? mr. attorney general, he needs to use his noggin and answer what is to account for the anti-obama policy protests going on today in black communities and in hispanic circles, and on reservations, and in my own home? that racism charge -- you know why they do that. it's to stop debate. they cannot get us on the issues. we are right on this issue about what illegal immigration is going to do to this country. but throw out the word racist, and the reporters let him off. critics, friends -- they let him off. because that, to them, is there deadly charge, the only way they can win on these issues. who would go right to the color of a man's skin to judge, marginalize, and lay blame?

who? only one quite prejudiced. and on impeachment. impeachment has got him nervous. let's be clear. if they don't believe in that high crimes and misdemeanors, it does not mean today's ordinary criminal charges. the framers used the term to mean a dereliction of duty. it was explained by many of our founders as -- dereliction of duty, knowing that the first to the of the president is to enforce our laws, preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. it was alexander hamilton who described impeachable offenses as the abusive violation of some form of trust. he called them elliptical offenses, because they relate chiefly to injuries done

immediately to the society itself. no serious person can deny that team obama has abused and violated the public trust and the constitution. rocking us to our core from benghazi, fast and furious gunrunning, stimulus bust. greenies on our greenbacks. and the scandals. obamacare lies. v.a. let's die. the irs aims to repress conservative voice. the doj wiretaps reporters. violation of our religious rights. and they are ignoring illegal in-house fundraising. the list of abuses goes on and on.

not defending orders is dereliction of duty, violating the oath of office. if that is not impeachable, nothing is. and if he is not impeachable, no one is. [applause] and upon the world stage, i wish we had time to talk about some of these national security issues. so much is going on. so much to cover. we cannot even id the enemy in these overseas contingency operations. that would just be war. the definition of war to us. that is what it would call us. intervention strategies are so unreliable, and even inconsequential, as applied to fighting to win. juxtapose that -- murkiness.

benjamin netanyahu's clarity. he says, we developed missile defense systems to protect our citizens, while they use their citizens to protect their missiles. whose side are you on? the list does go on. not all offenses, of course, some just offensive. and with excuses. blame bush. blame boehner. blame a bummer of a ballgame or a bad day on the links. who knows, with team obama, why they do what they do? it makes no sense. but the constitution holds the president responsible for the executive branch. he cannot just call it him.

he can't just vote present and feign ignorance of all of this. any more a mob boss can claim innocence because he did not personally do the hit. the buck stops with the guy at the top. [applause] considering articles of impeachment is the check. making the case for it is not difficult. difficult is having the moral courage to do what's right. it takes guts to hold them accountable. it takes political will. some argue for cautious inaction, they are terming it. they are saying, obama's helices are a failure anyway. why rock the boat? that argument misses the point. he is radically changing the

balance of power. setting a wicked dangerous precedent with his pen and his phone. he is aggregating congressional authority, making himself a ruler, not a president. we had a revolution back in 1776. we don't do kings. [applause] on his way for the next election -- wait for the next election and hope a big gop victory rings in the radicals. been there, done that in 2010. friends, if we let congress refuse to use the power that the constitution gives it, barack obama will continue to rule

however he wants, and the fabric of america will unravel. do not be afraid to raise this and no there is no other recourse. right now, we are drifting. the country is rudderless. the captain is saying, i am going it alone. well, shipmates, it's our responsibility to use that tool in the toolbox, to hold him accountable, to send that message. we have to influence congress on this. remember, the only thing necessary for them to fundamentally transform america is for the men to do nothing. we must hold him accountable. if not these violations, then what? if not these violations, this imperial president, his pledge

to continue to go it along so arrogantly -- how bad does it have to get? we live now in america where government spies on us, and targets, because of political belief, terrorist leaders are said to go back to their death cult, back to the battlefield, keep doing what they want to do best, and that is kill americans. we let them go free. we live in an america where our health care is taken from us and we are forced by government to buy something we don't want. we can't afford. an america where government takes aim at taxing nuns because they adhere to their catholic faith. no border, no nation.

and we live in an america where the president keeps a kill list of people he says he has authorized to be executed on sight. if you are fine with that, then by all means, look for the best. your apathy is their power. the rest of us, we need change. we know we need change. that has to do with healing the injuries to society by an unchecked president. that starts with having the guts to talk about impeachment. they will engage in all sorts of mischief in these next few years. what danger. what danger he had there with appointments -- look ahead and

consider that judicial damage. consider it will be unrecoverable. we cannot wait. we need to have our voice heard on this. use your mighty weapons of a pen and a phone, and influence congress. it's got to be with courage. always think about reagan. sunny optimism. time-tested truths that are on our side. stand for prosperity. the key to laughing prosperity -- it is not a handout. it is the callused hand of those who built this country.

lasting parody does not come from top-down government or community organizing. this exceptional country. it was built by the little guy. the guy who plowed the fields. who worked the factories. built the railroads. the skyscrapers. and the pipelines. and the power plants. they harvested, and they carved a nation out of the wilderness. and the most brave, they fought and we and our country's wars. they made america the greatest nation in the history of mankind. yes, they built it. they deserve our work now. it is our turn. [applause] this president's forgotten ma