agenda leading into the u.k.'s general election in 2015. and a look at the >> this week on "q&a," our guest sally cohen, founding editor and columnist of on faith and faithstreet.com. she talks about her career as a columnist for the "washington change from being an atheist to someone of faith. she also speaks about her long marriage to ben bradlee. >> sally quinn, on january 19 of this year if you rolled when i

started on faith over seven years ago, i was an atheist. , this was notere your first, why did you say you were in atheist? >> i had been in atheist most of my life. i became an atheist when i was about 4. i'd always been taught to say my prayers, i pray the lord my soul to keep. the my father was in military and he was in germany during world war ii and he limit and he- liberated dachau had the staff photographer takes pictures of the holocaust victims. he made scrapbooks out of them which are at the holocaust museum museum. she brought them home. i looked at the photographs and i thought it cannot be a god. this happen?od let

that's when i stopped believing in god. i did not know the word if he is a but i just a new idea not believe in god. i learned the word atheist when i was 13. i told my father and he went completely crazy. even on his deathbed, i was with, when he died and one of the last things he said it was, "please do not to be an atheist." i could never explained to him. he was there and he saw what but hed at dachau, cannot understand why i cannot believe in a god. when i took over on faith, when i started on faith, i had absolutely no particular face or believe -- faith or beliefs. i was an angry atheist. i was mad at god. i was really mad that this

person, this thing, this idea that people worshiped could create so much suffering on earth. , i by the way, as of today still yet to hear anyone who is religious explain to me in a way that makes sense why there is suffering on earth, if there is a god, and all-powerful, all-knowing god. all the loving god. how could there possibly be suffering? that has always been a problem for me. jon meacham, who is a great of mine, and id had a great debates about this. about the time i started the website, we were having lunch and he said you are not really an atheist. yes, i am. at the end of three hours, he said i will tell you why because you are not a negative person. being an atheist is a negative

person, you do not believe in something. it is not a positive thing. he said it you know nothing about religion. if you are going to call yourself an atheist, you shall learn something about religion. become a religion scholar and then you can come back and say i read all of this and i am an atheist. then i will respect your position more. -- i have always been really interested in religion because it was so clear to me that there are all of those people out here, 95% of the people on this planet believe in something and god. their lives are completely informed by what they believe. a lot of really intelligent people i know are believeth as

well. i cannot dismiss at that. it became clear what was going , nationaltics politics, but also foreign policy, so much was about religion. i wrote an e-mail to our editor then and said we really need to cover this. awas looking at it as journalist. we are just not covering the story. it is a great story. he was not interested. i went to donna great -- don gray and i went to lunch with him and i said we are not and he saidigion that i should do it. i said i do not know any ink on about religion. he said, "nobody is perfect." i called up john meacham and he was the editor of "newsweek" and i asked if he would do it with me. i had no street cred.

we had a bunch of people agree to be analysts. and then i began to study religion. i took a trip of around the world about six or eight months after i started the great faith. we went to 13 countries. every possible religion you can all imagine. totally exhausting. but i was absolutely riveted by what i learned. i realized i did not know anything. that was the first thing i realized which was helpful. later, i really know that i do not know anything about religion. the more i learn, the more i tolize i have not even begun understand. -- i decided event that i

was no longer in atheist after i studied religion because i thought meacham is right, i understand what people are after. -- i saw things in religion that were really good. i had always, my position as an religion ish was, the cause of all evil. and obviously, that is true on some level. and we seeisis today it is the cause of a lot of evil in other religions, too. outso began to separate institutional religion from spirituality or belief. that was the really important time for me. i am not alone. about 25% of the population would call themselves spiritual

or not religious. what i call spnr's. book "ris wrote a spirituality without religion." there.ere is something there is a dutch movement called somethingist, which describes my better thanliefs anything else. they believe there is something there but they do not know what it is. i am a somethingist. i believe there is something there. god, if i wantit to, or whatever. but i believe there is something bigger than we are. we were created by something. and i do not have a personal

relationship with god. not really believe jesus christ was the son of god. i believe jesus christ was a great man. but i have felt and been in the presence of the transcendent too many times not to feel that if there is something there. so, i do not really pray but i meditate. >> let me show something you were involved in on cnn. what is elaborate? >> it is not a maze. it is a round, flat surface that looks like a maze. when you walk be path of a the labyrinth which are the paths of the brain it leads you into a circle and that is where you

meditate. when you walk in the labyrinth, you think of something and you concentrate on something, an issue that is bothering you, worries you, where you need clarity. that is what i find i get from the labyrinth. >> was it on cnn or the website? >> on cnn. >> let's watch. [video clip] to believe inhave anything or any god or anything. all you have to do is meditate about things important to you. ♪ , youyou walk the labyrinth usually concentrate on something. think of a problem or issue or question as an you walk around until you get to the center. you concentrate some more on whatever it is that you want to resolve, whatever problem it is.

most extraordinary experience that i have ever had in my entire life. life changing experiences. it was moments of clarity. every the labyrinth single day i am here. i am really religious all about it. has anybody said to you or either behind your back that sally has lost it? they see the spiritualism and say it is not really religion and what is she doing. it used to be a hard-bitten style section writer in town. what is your reaction? >> the person most surprised was my husband. >> you say in the column he is religious? >> he is, he believes in god. he doesn't go to church. butnot a practicing -- really -- he is not a practicing -- the but and scary moments he

prayed when we thought that our son, quinn was dying. i tried to pray at the children's hospital, the chapel. there and went in nothing happened. nothing happened. i got no nothing. >> something happens on the labyrinth? >> it is interesting. and sometimes it is transcendent. you are supposed to follow, the circuits over the brain. there is something that happens when i walked the labyrinth. they have them in hospitals now, outside of churches. there is something very peaceful and very soothing and quieting. i never walked the labyrinth and i do not come away with some sense of clarity or understanding that i am going through.

it does not always solve the thatem, but i always feel if there is something guiding me. >> catch us up. you wrote for "the washington post" style section for how many year? >> visit year, 46 years. -- this year, 46 years. >> i meant at the stretch? wentwent back after my son to boarding school, he was very learning disabled. i stayed home even though i was writing for the paper. i guess it has been about 10 years since i was actually on a staff writing. i still write for the paper what i am not on the staff. >> what happened when you decided to tell the story about religion? what happened when you wanted to leave this other reporting?

brian.d sort of done it, i had been there, done that. written all of the profiles. i was doing the same kind of thing all of the time. a tensioned about terrorism after 9/11 and i did a lot of homeland security stuff and that was fascinating to me. it was clear i wanted to move in another direction. i just did not want to do what i was doing. i did not want to cover politics anymore. i was interested, but i did not want to write. >> here is a clip of the dalai just recently on the floor of the senate to give in to the prayer and walking around. let's just watch and you connected this. >> this is my favorite prayer.

[indiscernible] as long as faith remains and as long as human beings remain. [indiscernible] and help the misery of the world. thank you. reid brought him down to the floor. he walks around. does it really play and how much of it is show how much israel? >> i think a lot of it is show. the dalai lama, i have met him several times to stop he is a very gentle, sweet man. -- several times.

gentle, sweety man. i think he would be happier somewhere meditating in a cave. i worry sometimes he is asked -- he is exploited having to do this fight for tobacco. there is no more to do. that is over. -- there is no more tibet. to peoplet and talk and his difficult to understand. most people do not understand what he is saying. his message is wonderful, love and peace. i still feel he is being used and people not only use him but he used for their own benefit. i'm not particularly moved by that. with also have a problem -- you know, i care very deeply about the separation of church and state. i have a problem with words like

being used in the pledge of allegiance and when you are swearing in someone in the military or whatever. i do not think it has a place in our country now because of religious freedom. there are so many people who are not religious. it a seems we are no longer a christian nation. it seems to me we are not necessarily a religious nation. a lot of people are very religious. there are a lot of people, again, the same ratio between those who are religious and not, about 25% of people who called if you ask what is your faith, you say none. they are spiritual. most people who say they are nones are people who believe in god or something.

some highere is power. only about 3% or 4% are hard car avs. -- hard-core atheists. >> why do politicians and their speeches with god bless america? >> they have to. the majority of people in the country believe in god or say they do. of -- itbecome kind word ofme a way, a code saying i am a good person. i have some very close friends areare atheists and they some the most decent human beings i have known in my life. we have seen this from an awful lot of people who believe in god and do terrible things. believing in god has nothing to do with the goodness or integrity or decency or values. believe inhave to

god into how morals or values. in this country, we think we do. enough tos are smart know they have to say that. it means nothing. most of them, i believe, do not even think about it and a lot of them are not religious. andcannot run for office this country without saying you are religion. you probably ought to be a christian, too. that -- well, we have a black president and will have a woman president, a jewish president, we will have a muslim president and a gay president before we have an atheist president. i think it is too scary for some people to contemplate. hitchens and richard dockins and sam harris have for done a lot to dispel the myths

of the evil atheist. made it acceptable for people to say they do not believe in a god. joe lieberman was jewish. i think joe is an orthodox jew. he was a practicing -- he is faith ande abrahamic people respected his religiosity or religious faith, nature. it was not necessarily a detriment for him because he was religious and talked about how important his religion was. >> how often do you write? >> i try to write once a week. sometimes twice a week. i write for my website on faith and that will run in the washington post. occasionally, i will do something that is not about

religion, but strikes me. website- it is on the and if people want to read you, how do they find you? >> is a google on faith. -- is a google on faith. google on faith. >> i have a piece here that you wrote in 1974. what i want you to do is to compare this town with what it was then and what it is now. did ons is a piece you somebody named steve martindale. >> yes. >> been dead for years. when you did a piece on him he he died 16s old and years later of aids. who was he? it was a huge piece.

a real impact of the city and what were you trying to do? >> steve martin del was a really sweet guy. what i was trying to do was show how you make it in washington, how you make it socially. steve was this rocket. he came here out of college. by the time he was 30, he was having parties with the most elite, most famous, most powerful people in washington. how did it happen? he was very personable and friendly. i liked him. what i wanted to show was how it works and what steve did was, he became friends and he was everywhere. he started inviting people. he would go out and make friends and cultivates people. he would flatter people. i am still never sure who paid for the parties.

he was able to put on the events. i think one of the things i said was his trick was to call up teddy roosevelt's daughter and say i was having a party for henry kissinger and call henry kissinger and say i am having a party for alice roosevelt and they would show up. everybody knew if steve and invited them to parties, everybody would be there. he became the host with the most. it was a fascinating phenomenon to see how the power elite could be had so easily in washington. changed.ow it has honestly, i do not think that part of it has changed in terms of how you succeed. just havingthat parties in general has become so much more difficult because there is a this rancor in washington.

in those days, republicans and democrats actually spoke to each other. they were friends. a lot of that was because people lived here. most people on base he'll live in washington. he'll --eople on a day most people on of the hill lived in washington. they would go home and come back. face each other at dinner and their children went to school together and they want to church and the synagogue together. there was a real sense of community. i once wrote that the air applying this airplane was the demise of friendship on capitol hill because once their travel became so much easier people started traveling. most families live outside of washington. the members of congress will fly in on monday and spent monday,

tuesday, and wednesday nights on their sofas and fly home on thursday. >> almost everybody you wrote with exception -- exception of henry consider and your -- henry kissinger and your husband are dead. i want to show you what you did about 20 years ago and he was mentioned in your piece a lot. he had a lot of visibility. let's take a look. >> what about when you were doing that? >> no power at all. they think they do, but they do not. if you asked as a transmitter -- act as a transmission for fax and have an impact, you can have an impact as a transmission does. the idea that anyone in the united states is foolish enough to think the way they do because

some columnist thinks that way an ideaorning paper is that only a columnist could be leave. >> -- could belief. >> when you did it on your book, you had an evocation -- invitation. explain the character and he wrote a column in the post. what has changed? all, joe actually believed he had a lot of power. and he did not believe he was just a transmission and he used his power and columnist still do have power. people are afraid of them. if they do have an impact and they do have an impact on what people believe especially if they are good and well respected. if you are somebody like david

ignatius, you have a lot of power. people actually change the way theirehave and act and is views because of what david writes. many of my friends are columnist have the same impact. joe knew perfectly well -- we see this a lot when somebody says exactly the opposite of what they say. >> he was a contrary in. he likes to shock people and take the other side. not think that part has changed. he was very powerful. and also his proximity to be "washington post" and fresher with the g -- and friendship with the grahams. >> what do you think about the post of being sold? had no choice but

to sell because it was losing money and he sold it to save it. it was a courageous thing to do. >> what does it do for the town that is owned by jeff bezos? it was very hard for people n sold it.er when do everybody was in shock. we saw it coming because we knew the numbers and it was better to sell it as an fold it which is the direction it was going. jeff bezos about the paper and ce, wasne, don's nie publisher until a month ago and she is now stepping down. there are no more grahams. hired whoisher was was a former reaganite. he is not a wide i ideologue --

wide-eyed ideologue. i do not think he is going to impose himself on the newsgathering operation at all. i do not think he will. i think he was a good choice because people were nervous about bezos living in seattle and not being here and wondering need isms left, we someone who had been in washington. ryan has been here for 20 years and has a real respect for the newspaper and the role. i think he will be a great ambassador to washington. >> you felt the power of the town when you wrote these pieces . do you still feel the power when you write the religion column? now.ll, it is so different

i was in television for a while. i was the first network anchorwoman when i did at the cbs morning news. >> we have a clip to show you. >> it is not my best moment. [laughter] at any rate, that thing i loved was ratings was everything. i lasted for six months and went back to "the post." well, what has changed with the web is that is the case. ratings are everything and traffic is everything. in thet beautiful word english language and now is going viral. you want your story to be out of there and for people to read them. that puts a lot of pressure on reporters and journalists. it skews the way you look at what you write and how you write

it. what people might want to read in the newspaper if you are writing a solid story that you know is a responsible news story is our should be in the paper, but you also know it will not forget a lot of traffic. you may not be as enthusiastic as writing it such as harris hilton. -- paris hilton. >> which of your stories has gotten the biggest response? about -- icall him did a column about suffering and how no one gets a pass and we all suffer. that seemed to resonate. people really responded to that in a way i was stunned. people stopped me on the street. tearseyes welled up with telling me their stories. i was interesting because talking to my editor and talking

to him about my feelings about suffering. he said you have to write that. got -- you would be happy to know the productive aging award from the center for somethingcenter for -- i cannot remember the name of the organization. it is a very good organization. and so i gave a speech to them and they honored me at this dinner. i gave a speech. it was my speech and i cut it back and made it into a column. >> how much of the suffering of your husband's dementia have you written about? not written about it at all. he was diagnosed a while ago. he had a obvious that

serious problem about two years ago. i began to tell people. i am writing a memoir for harper. i will write about it a lot in that. >> how has that impacted you? does he know you? >> he doesn't know who i am. -- does know who i am. we actually called hospice care this week. i thought this is going to be not so hard. will gradually lose his memory and you ask me to repeat things and it will just be -- it horriblethe most experience i have ever had. up until recently and -- he is still at hall -- at home. i have him sleeping in the bed

with me and i will until the end. a certain piece has come open -- what ias come over me, thought was going to be horrible, the care taking part has became something almost sacred. that is not -- that is not a dreadful. -- drivel. i do not expect that. i expected i would have nervous breakdowns. i do not think we have ever been as loving with the each other as we are now. together. lot of time we hold hands. he knows me. he loves having to be there. rewarding extremely ther fore himbe

now to try to make him happy and give as much love until he dies. >> 93 years old? >> 93 and august. >> a clip when you and ben were here in 1993. >> where did you two meet and when did you get married? >> we met at "the washington post." sally came looking for a job. she went first as a -- to be a secretary to phil, who was editor of the editorial page. i told him that he would get in trouble if he hired her and later on i hired her. >> he didn't. her sally to write for the style section. leftcame friends after she

"the post." she called me mr. bradlee the day she left to go to cbs. year, 1973. that >> 20 years ago this june. >> intimates and about how many years? >> 41 years we have been together. -- we willer ire -- sober hour 36 wedding -- we will celebrate our 36th wedding anniversary. >> what were the best moments of your professional careers? watergate, nothing can compare. it was a very stressful time. we got together in the middle of watergate. because i waser in love with the ben. -- i was in love with ben.

i knew there was no way i could get involved with him when he was going through this. he was being watched and the nixon people had people following him around. it would destroy his credibility. and so, i quit. i took the job at cbs which i did not want to do. i did not want to move to new york. i had a boyfriend in new york. cared about very much. by that time i was in love with ben. i realize i had no choice. idea quit. after i quit and move to new york, i said i was in love with him. quit.as quit -- i did we ended up together. he immediately left his wife. they have been east ranged for forral years -- estranged

several years. it was ok. but it was too much at stake for us to be together while he was going to watergate and still married. >> given the fact you had such a strong reaction on your column on suffering, what would you tell people about dementia that might help them deal with it? o'connor'say husband, john, had it and she ended up putting him in a nursing home in arizona. everybody has his or her own way of dealing with this. sandra was a great friend of my parents. about a year ago, i saw her at i wanteption and i said to just ask you about this. we went off and she put her hands on my shoulder and her eyes sort of tear it up and said , i want you to know it is really horrible.

it is really, really horrible. there is nothing good about it. i think, what i think people need to be realistic about what it is, the first thing you do is hide it to stop that is -- hide it. that is what everybody did. i said he is just forgetting his and glasses. it was not until he was speaking in front of a group and he was doing a conversation with john meacham and he had a blackout the day before and i said to him that morning do you think you want to do it? i am fine., he got on the stage with meacham and he cannot answer questions. he did not know when he went to war or when he went to the post. i was there just dying. i had a knot in my stomach.

paniced.int he looked >> did you know he was having trouble with memory then? >> oh, yeah. he had beenoment ok. that blackout took the cognitive -- took its toll on him cognitively. seeas after that, you could he was in a decline. i started telling people. i could not hide it anymore. -- say thee the a-word, everybody's attitude changes toward you. our friends have been extraordinary. people continue to invite us to dinner and come to our house to dinner. asave tried to keep ben

engaged as possible. the more he is engage, the slower it goes. he has been part of a men's group that is fantastic. 12 guys with alzheimer's or dementia. he had to stop last week. they asked him not to come back. that has been fabulous. we have had people over to dinner two or three nights a week. he loves being around people. that is all finished. in the last six weeks, he has had such a decline that he cannot participate at all anymore. i had a birthday party for him and august and he was able to come downstairs and blow out the candles. son lives in the house next door so he comes over. i moved my office downstairs so i could be close to him. a constanteen

stirring of people coming and visiting. he goes to the office once a week to have lunch. at thea running tab madison so they could take him over and they will talk about the good old days. people have been incredible. they have been wonderful to ben and me. i think that has really kept him going. all of the activity. and i also think for people who are with -- to try to keep active. a lot of people sort of shut down at their whole lives. , somebodyaid to me close to nancy reagan said she shut her life down and just took care of ronnie. i am not doing that. i work full time. i go out with friends for dinner

at night. going.to keep my life i tried to get as much sleep as i can even though it is afficult because ben is up lot at night. getting another sleep is essential and eating well and exercising. it is like putting a mask on your face on the airplane before you put it on someone else. you have to be healthy. if i get tired, i get a wiki. -- i get weepy. i think people need to keep on with their lives and have people cup over and set and have a of coffee. just come over and get a couple of people and have a drink or something. do not shut your life it down. and that is the problem that so many people have. it is really hard. nobody should ever believe it is

not easy. >> is he aware of what is going on? >> he knows -- i.t. is him and him and say in my next life i will be ben bradlee. he has never been depressed a day in his life. i have never seen him depressed. he is very happy. he is taking care of. has people fluttering around him every minute. he is so well taken care off. he is a happy and loves to be false over. he is very aware of being taken care of and fussed over. he sleeps now about 20 hours a day and does not sleep much. he is totally content. i told youhter note,

we had to this video of you, your first day at a cbs. >> oh, no. [laughter] you are not going to do that to me. >> you have to stay in engaged. it is not long. it is only a minute. what year was it? >> 1973. >> you lasted six months. you had never done television. you were on with hughes rudd. he is no longer with us. >> he was a really bad boy. >> here is a minute. , thism the cbs newsroom is the cbs morning news. with hughes rudd and sally quinn. >> we should begin with saying a little bit about what we are.

a lot of people do not consider me a common site. back tong else saying you and that sort of thing. sally quinn is not the commonplace site. she is a former washington post reporter and we are glad to have her. >> the first day i come on tv i start off with a sore throat and fever. back to you. >> as long as it does not make you delirious. we have a lot of people who are delirious and they usually run for politics. >> six months. >> i was delirious. i was so sick. it was stress. i could hardly stand up. >> what was television like? >> i hated it. i love sitting here in talking to you but first of all, the

show was from 7:00 in of the morning. they wanted us to get up at 1:30 and b and a studio so we could so withe in the studio the right of the show which was ridiculous. they wanted a post-writer to write the show. hughes was a brilliant writer. we would sit in there and they would bring lunch in. it was chinese food. >> why was hughes rudd a bad boy? >> he was very mischievous and iconoclastic. both of us, we had this cold following. following. were both so outrageous on tv and when he said things and that nobody had ever said before on live tv. crazed suits were

because they cannot believe what was going on. shows like the jon stewart . that's what it was like. there were little touches of "saturday night live." if we had done that show at night, it would of been a huge hit. [laughter] it was not what people wanted to watch. our biggest fan was andy warhol. and watched religiously. he loved the show. he was waiting for one of us to say something outrageous. it was so not conventional. getting up in the morning and i could not write. that is what i love doing writing pieces for "the washington post." at that time i was in love with ben. andwe were already together nobody knew it. we were meeting quietly. he was flying up to new york and meeting me.

and i was exhausted all of the time. i would see ben on the weekends. biological -- not my biological clock, that was a 40 and slip. slip. that was a freudian my circadian rhythm was off. i was not having any fun. i loved hughes and being with him was wonderful but i was getting criticized or what i was doing. reading the news was not what i wanted to do. it was not fun. something of you on video taking a tour of your home. in theseairly public columns about your life. why do you want to share all of this with people and how does that impact your life? >> people ask me that a lot. i am not a private person.

do think when politicians say they are private people will? >> it makes me lie. i have many people i will consider private who would showing at the idea of any type of public and. it is a way of connecting. it is a way of connecting to because i ameople sharing what i am going through and people respond to that and i like that. -- too, i knowo, what you mean. people fill helped or reassured by it. it is generally not boasting when i write about myself are what is going on. it is about what is happening in my family. >> what about the fallout about the wedding? is that complicated things to explain. >> it is complicated.

ben's granddaughter was getting married. there was sort of a separation in the family of some of us, some of his children, some of them. and i were not getting along and ben was not getting along with them either. we decided not to go to the wedding because we felt it would be too awkward. dementiaoint, ben had and that was part of the problem. >> that was not made public? >> nobody knew. he did not want to go. >> let me explain. marriage by his first who was married to martha radek had a daughter and it was her wedding. >> we adored her. absolutely are adored her.

she was like a my child. i loved her. , ituse of the situation would of been too painful and complicated and ben did not want to go. it got out with my son, when, was getting -- quinn, was getting married, his fiancee was pregnant so we had to move up the wedding date. the only data we could get at the national cathedral was in monthse day in three that was available, the church and the minister. we chose the date and had the wedding invitations made up. and i called up the members of my family and the other means of familymembers of ben's and they said fine. we began to send out the invitations and we found a it was the same date as ben's

granddaughter. there was a rash of stories about how this was upsetting to everyone. >> you wrote about it? martin andto saint my son and daughter-in-law were reallynd there were some horrible things written on the internet about them. they had nothing to do with any of this. it was just one of these awful mistakes. they were getting criticized. learning disabled and people were calling him a retard and awful stuff and they were distraught and asked me to do something. she was pregnant and was having a miscarriage at the time. i was distraught. and saidmy editor's how can i come back this terrible publicity. i am so unhappy about what they

are writing about the kids for stump they said white -- about the kids. -- and they said why don't you try to write something and i did. wasote this piece and it accepted by everybody's paper including the managing editor who said terrific and they ran it. and then there was this reaction to it. i came back and [laughter] it was a very difficult time for me and ben, who was extremely agitated because he did not understand and was very confused about what was happening. i showed him the piece but his judgment was not a great. show a clip of your son, quinn. everybody has a different way of learning.

whether you have learning disabilities or not. learning difference is a more and is able is a pretty harsh word. >> another point of language is you do not call other kids normal, you call them typical and you are not typical. reallyve never understood the word "normal" because i have been a fuse by my whole -- i have been confused by it my whole life. having being educated about definitions and to learn, y there is no theor such thing as normality. >> 32 years old? >> yes. >> did quinn get divorced?

>> key is in the process of getting divorced. >> tell about the piece. >> you wrote about the divorce and -- >> he did? >> you were upset at a reporter. >> he wrote a piece that quinn's wife had posted some pictures of her, some sexy pictures not anything pornographic and put on her facebook page and how he saw them do a friend's facebook page and wrote about it. it made it sound sleazy. -- i e-mailed him and said i am so disappointed in him and that was it. it was not a big deal. >> the memoir comes out when? is a year from

this week. that means i have to write it, brian. middle of thethe difficult peace with your husband. what are some of the columns you want to topple that you have not written yet? >> i am writing to or three pieces now and one is about the pledge of allegiance and get "under god" taken out and i agree. it was flapped on it there in the 1950's and it had never been there. i am doing an interview with who wrote about jesus. i interviewed him yesterday and theyt isis is consider themselves muslims. they will muslims,

tell you these people do not represent islam but in fact, what the koran says, a way to cherry pick it to make it a peaceful religion or violent religion the same as christianity or any other religion. that and ig on it will be doing a piece on sam harris, who has a book out now called "waking go spirituality without religion." i will do an interview with karen armstrong about her new book. >> watermark time, people want to read your column and they go where? >> they google on faith. >> and your whole life is on the google. >> i have never googled myself. [laughter] >> try it.

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