a culture i realize that was a lot japanese. even though i hadn't grownup in it and i was as american as apple pie in so many ways that i started to learn more about the culture and i thought, i'm more japanese than chinese in many ways. this book gave that to me. that was the greatest gift of the samurai's garden. that and the fact that somehow people kept reading it. it was the book i was worried about and i had sent it to my editor and she called. i'm telling you the gossip stuff now. i think in a way that's more interesting. i was very nervous because i didn't know how she would receive this book. she called and said to me, well, it's very different. [laughter] and then nobody said anything. i didn't say anything and she didn't i didn't know what to say different good or bad so just with quiet. she said, i think this about part of -- she talked to me about story lines. i realized wow, they are going to publish it. and we talked about it as we would talk about a man script that would be accepted. i'm thinking, i can't believe

that's what i began with. it was the first time i said, this character not necessarily has to be asian. none of these characters necessarily have to be asian. i was of mind opposite of what you are saying happened through the book. what happened was the more i started to research when i discovered warner's, ime wantedo write. i was feeling older as a person and wanted to translate that into a book. when i thought i would write about the care taking situation and wanted to write about a mother and daughter and i thought was there an aging disease? where children grow old quickly. by the time they are 7 or 8 they look like little old people because they age so quickly. the first thing i asked myself is there a version of this disease for older people. does it start later in a person's life? as i'm researching i discover warner's syndrome and that's how it came to be that particular disease in the book. i thought this works because she would have a life before the disease started to age her in the 20's as opposed to bei

i was remarkable. he was not shaken in that sense. moment that i could see the horror in his face, in his eyes was when that famous picture of andy card telling him what happened. he had remarkable composure through this whole period. in fact, was rallying other people. >> the president: terrorist attackcan shake the foundations of our biggest buildings. but they cannot touch the foundation of america. these acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of american resolve. none of us will ever forget this day. yet, we go forward to defend freedom in all that is good and just and -- and just in our world. >> what it did was reaffirm to me that this is a country worth living in. and these are people worth defending. and that there are things in this world that you had to be willing to-die-for. >> i look back and see all these firefighters and these cops who sacrificed their lives because of me. and i pick up the paper and i'm looking back and i'm seeing a memorial service. and the kids are in tears. and i tell myself, that could

i will tell you up front it was a book i thought that may be they wouldn't publish. my very first book was women of the silk. i knew that i was writing about something that was a little bit different because i didn't know about the women of the silk until i wanted to write something telling their story much the second book is the test book for us writers you hear that a lot where the publishers are wondering if the author has a second book. everybody here i feel sitting here all of you have one book in you. whether it's a family story or your story whether it's ancestors whether it's your history you want to write about. but it's the second one that's hard. i felt that when i turnod the computer and thought, now i have to write book number 2. i had in mind that i wanted to write something very different from women of the silk that was strictly about the feminist chinese women during the turn of the century and i wanted to write about my japanese culter. i didn't have the story or the culture unfortunately because i was born in san francisco, half chinese and half japa

i was remarkable. he was not shaken in that sense. in his eyes was when that famous picture of andy card telling him what happened. he had remarkable composure through this whole period. in fact, was rallying other people. >> the president: terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings. but they cannot touch the foundation of america. these acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of american resolve. none of us will ever forget this day. yet, we go forward to defend freedom in all that is good and just and -- and just in our world. >> what it did was reaffirm to me that this is a country worth living in. and these are people worth defending. and that there are things in this world that you had to be willing to-die-for. >> i look back and see all these firefighters and these cops who sacrificed their lives because of me. and i pick up the paper and i'm looking back and i'm seeing a memorial service. and the kids are in tears. and i tell myself, that could have been me. >> we shared such a powerful ex

at first i thought i was blind and i thought i was deaf. then i thought for a while, maybe i'm dead. but i was holding my breath and, you know, don't bleed, don't bleed, don't breathe. i took a breath and i breathed this sort of thick -- i don't know what was in the air. it was thick, it was particles, it was thick. and i was suffocated and i was outside in new york. and so right then and there, i knew that the people inside, they were gone. because what air could they have? so from that moment on, it was my view that they were all gone. and so five minutes later when the sort of the color of the sky, you know, the world changed. i could now see my hands. you know, i stood up and i realized not only wasn't i dead, but i could walk. and i started walking. from that moment on, i thought all my friends were gone. >> i mean, this is just an extraordinary moment for you. you built this company. you've hired all these people. they've become close friends. your own brother is up there. you've had this miraculous escape. there's no other way to desc

when i was 15. u know, i've been relatively at piece for a while. >> charlie: you also found happiness in marriage. >> that's right. i can't believe my luck in finding kim. i d think i've survive to a point that's relatively stable now. i couldn't call the wife east. it's amazingly sort of self centered that i am myive for a living and i sort of am as we are right now, i'm the topic of convsation and it's. so that's not normal. >> charlie: you seem to be handling it just fine. >> i'm doing okay. thank you, if you say so. >> charlie: i don't mean just this conversation but i've seen you performing. it seems to me that you have found a variety of stages. you understand who you are, where you are, where you're going. >> it starts with a great good fortune being born as a human being. how likely is this to be in one of these, to live in here. and then there's the pce that life takes us. if you can be grateful for what you got, th's a great state to try to be in. it's hd. >> charlie: also you teach how to

i was remarkable. he was not shaken in that sense. in his eyes was when that famous picture of andy card telling him what happened. he had remarkable composure through this whole period. in fact, was rallying other people. >> the president: terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings. but they cannot touch the foundation of america. these acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of american resolve. none of us will ever forget this day. yet, we go forward to defend freedom in all that is good and just and -- and just in our world. >> what it did was reaffirm to me that this is a country worth living in. and these are people worth defending. and that there are things in this world that you had to be willing to-die-for. >> i look back and see all these firefighters and these cops who sacrificed their lives because of me. and i pick up the paper and i'm looking back and i'm seeing a memorial service. and the kids are in tears. and i tell myself, that could have been me. >> we shared such a powerful ex

it was bryonn bain, aka bostick. i did not know who that was. they have given up my information and i've done myself in jail again for a crime i did not commit. this time i said, hell no, i am suing everybody. the police, the state of new york. the public defender came to me -- this is the craziest part of the situation. the public defender who is there to defend your constitutional rights -- she came in to see me with plastic cause and a surgical mask. i saw her walking around with all the rest of the brothers. i thought maybe she had something that she did not want to give us. [laughter] that is righteous. i respect that. whenever you have to do. then she got me into the interrogation room and she said to me, you say you have education. where did you go to school, high school? public-school of new york. this does that add up. i skipped two grades before college. where did you go to college? how did you pay for college? you went to grad school? how did you pay for law school? what did that have to do with my case? i was just going with the flow.

i was out on patrol. and your hip was and. we took a couple of prisoners and whether they were combatants or not you know. patrol was led by americans but every vietnamese are in there and every turn over the army. and use the old fashioned methods who interrogation force torture that was pretty common practice. i tell you as bad as that is that treatment was the cynicism that attached to it was a part that was really sickening and death of everything i've been taught everything i've learned everything i grew up with this is just not the way you treat human beings. there's a long time for that you could say yes. i got out of the military in nineteen sixty six i got up because of the things i saw the things i was doing and this reasons that we were given for doing that it was a personal protest it was just me getting out of the service and there was no movement to join i found the war in vietnam more got reports of and i felt that i just couldn't be a part of it eventually i said look i'm not training you guys anymore i don't a

then i was so curious about what was going on, i just had to know. i hacked into the local cell phone provider, kind of like at&t or t-mobile. i was able to identify the telephone that the fbi agents used that are chasing me and was able to do traffic analysis, so i could see who was calling them into they were calling and to those people were calling. i was also able to get location information. i was basically watching the fed's trying to capture me to be playing this cat and mouse game. eventually i was able to set up a device at my office. i was working as a up the i in los angeles. i was able to set up a device so that any of the fbi iphones came within one or 2 miles of me it would send me an alert. part of my fbi early warning system. so one day september 20th 1992, i'm walking into the office early, which is kind of on like me. i put in the code to get into the office. i keep hearing this beep, beep, beep. what did they do, since the code? as i'm walking to my office that beeping is getting louder. i hear that it is coming from my office. i s

i was hot. n the store. when i tell you, whap, whap. and sent me to the car and was like, i don't care what song you have on the radio. you are my child. up do not disrespect me. i will never forget it. it was a great lesson. >> you've never sung again like that in a shop with your mom? >> no, absolutely not. >> when i met her i can tell, a, she has your beauty. i don't think this beauty fades. there was a steely look in her eyes, you mess with my girl, old man, you're going to get it. i'm just a smack, smack away if one question goes wrong, she's there? >> she is. she is my friend, and i mean, we don't agree on everything and i'm an adult. we have an our own moments because we work together with our clothing line. she is respectful. >> what is she most proudest of that you achieved? >> i say probably when i sang "at last" for the president. i think my father, all of his history, he grew up in gaston, alabama. he was escorted to school every day because he was one of the first african-americans i

i think it was good. because you were the military guy when you're gurnall in basic training you're just savander portraiture school or a school like that will want to suck. it up really you know really i try to spend my whole life having people live a better life and can basically feel that uncertain or still around. and try to trick me into a kill they try to trick me into somebody who would take another life it's just one thing in real life if you like or call friends to say i didn't or that the. president. my hand in. hand and i will be constrained to a couple more will probably. go to those almost three which cross the pacific. there wasn't much to do on a troop ships old set up on the dark of night never wraps a lot of time to get to where we are what we are going to what was right or off we go back and forth back and forth and we always are looking cool and all those old we're doing the right thing because as a result. during the vietnam war and antiwar movement emerged that altered the course of hi

as i was reading it, i was thinking, boy, i don't know anything about myself. have the ability to be very open about things with a great deal of speed. was it difficult to get to that point? >> no, i think it started with just being raised by my mother, who taught me to love myself. and she loved me so strong that i felt confident in myself enough to be around whoever i am, whoever i'm around, i can be myself. >> jon: uh-huh. >> and i'm not afraid to be open because we're all human being, man. we all have great things about us, and we all have flaws. we just are works in progress. >> jon: why did you say when you said "flaw," you looked directly at me, because i thought that was interesting. "flaws," and then you looked up, i see 'em, right there. your mother actually, and i thought this was interesting, writes, you know, almost annotates the book. she writes about some of the stories that you're writing about, giving another perspective on it, which is really interesting. >> yeah, i mean, that voice in the book of my mother is really the voice that she is in my

when was this? >> guest: i think that the only republican there was alan simpson, and he was very humorous about it, pointed it out constantly. i sat at the table with president clinton, and he had helen thomas on his right, a table that was a mix of legislators -- well, congressmen, a number of black congressmen. he had people from arkansas, and i loved it when the strolling strings came in and played "the arkansas traveler." i thought to show that the white house is full of people from all parts of the country and not just one coast or the other was a great tribute. it was very convivial. we were dining in the blue room, and i think the piercing eyes of john tyler were on us, who incidentally -- you know, i collect history and so i told president clinton that he was ancestor of harry truman. sure enough, you'd look at them and they'd look somewhat alike. c-span: had you been back to the white house for that kind of a social evening since lyndon johnson had been president? >> guest: yes, i was invited to a cer

he didn't know i was coming was at the packing house. i remember seeing him, millions of apples coming down the flumes. my brother was looking at every single piece of fruit to be sure it was shipped correctly. he was to tender. i was seeing him from a long shot. i thought oh my god, all he needs is a sweater, he'd look just like are mr. rogers. i began to realize i didn't get it. that was the beginning. then i began bombing him with questions about apples and fruit. there was one moment that did change things in my perception, which is we were walking one day, i worked the fields and packing house routine, 5:00 a.m. routine. we were walking at dawn with the pickers who were all working, my brother was walking ahead of me. i saw all the shades of green, i was able to get my own ego out of the way. i thought he is amazing. this brother of mine is amazing. he has built up something astonishing here. it was almost like he was no longer invisible to me. i could begin to see him. then when i watched him walking ahead of me, i realized he has t

called central school of planning and so this is in warsaw and i was i was over this opportunity so i spent almost two years in new york. did you have an opportunity to complete your reforms well all that there was in the visit by the by the and butter of his plan was it all done was it all i have been told by my friend. i have three years of initiative and with the team saw we have advanced basic reforms liberalizing the economist and started to vis basic institutions stock exchange starting privatization but so i was in a better situation proper legal point of view but of course even three years is not enough so i have the second stage between two like ninety seven and two thousand and i have i was also a deputy prime minister we have accelerated some other reforms well. from state to market economy russia too had to go through some very painful reforms spotlight see the need to me there has more in that. words like inflation or unemployment were very distant to reality for the so that people low prices and decent wages were guaranteed by the state starting the nineteen eighties whe

was very polite . also but he wasn't crazy about the i don't know i can't somehow that certainly he said he was very much interested in the policy experience he invited me to come later but when i came for the second time it was the second night of our doors or the change in russia i talked to i spoke to two year old son and two you go gaidar interesting event we've discussed what i was russia and then during to listen is it true that yeltsin when you met him in ninety one was ready to offer you any job any salary if you only stayed in russia but you but you but you chose to go to poland is that true i thought this was just supposed very polite way of expressing his appreciation so little respect he said but i never considered this to be more than just a very kind. kind words that certainly we have. imported an interesting conversation. he was at the time in the city as my own person. and he asked me what is going to be in phase. and i bought in russia wants to liberalize i remember i told them higher than forecast that. theirs was the polish experience though. and says a last. ditch the form of polish d

i was just doing what i thought i was supposed to do. but with the music, that is a different animal. that was something that transcended just doing something because that is what he thought people expected of you. that was purely for myself. tavis: now that i understand the process with regard to your study, but has been the process for your music in terms of producing and writing and performing? the grades you thought you had to do for your parents. tell me about the process with your music. >> with the music, you are passionate about it, like you are hungry for something. in the beginning, i was always called a joan baez copier. i did not have a style of my own. it was not until i met and started with gram parsons that brought the country and rock music together. he was in a group called the byrds, and then they started the quintessential country western called the garrido brothers. after his death, but after i had only known him a year and was converted to country music and found my voice in that harmony singing and that kind of musi

i was, like, man, mom never made it. just years gone by and i finally accepted the fact that, hey, my mom walked out. >> your father did too? >> he walked out four years later. i was 12. throughout that gap it was like he was in and out. he always said he was doing construction and working and this and that but there was no bills were paid ever. he was never around. it was my brother and i just roaming around like two strays, you know. my sister, she was a big part of us. she had her own thing going on along the lines of she had a boyfriend and she ended up having her first child very early in her life. she had to part herself from us. instead of being the mother figure, she wish she was for a long while, my brother and i ended up having each other's back you can say. >> hold it there i want to come back after the break and talk to you about how you feel now that you've made it big-time and you've become a champion and how you look back at that time in your life and what your feelings are. [ oswald ] there's a lot of disc

when i was about 13 years old, i heard a sermon from the reverend c.l. in who was a father of aretha franklin. and he told a story about an eagle that had been unwittingly trapped in a cage with chickens. i was about 13 when i heard that sermon. and in a way it was me that he was speaking to because i was an eagle inside but i was trapped by my circumstances, and i wanted to get free. and so i took it then that metabecame dick toliver trapped by circumstances. and the chickens are the people who didn't know that there was an eagle inside of me or a burning desire to fly airplanes and so i took that as my way of going forward and how i was going to get free one day to, in fact, fly airplanes. >> mr. toliver, where did you grow up and what did your parents do? >> at that time growing up i was in near shreveport, louisiana, to be very candid, my father and my mother's marriage had failed and six children were left alone in the deep south in the '40s and the '50s. my mother died young trying to raise those six children. and so it was not people of means or pa

says you might know i was a computer hacker and ended up in a lot of hot water and i have been restricted from writing this book for seven years per car was released from custody in 2000 after seven years i could tell the story. however started was for my love of magic i used to ride my bike to the magic store because i was so fascinated. you will be this but i met the kid who could do magic with a telephone system. anybody read 2600 magazines? he could do incredible stuff. if i call for did my number he could break through. of my parents had the unlisted number and he could get it in 15 seconds he said i will give you a cool track. call this number and wait for a tone and put in a five digits to call anywhere for free. how does that work? >> later i learned it was probably some companies mci code but it is all the cool things he could do. stake in back with the technology. and he showed me how to get information if we had my parents never he could get that name, a friend's name he could get the unpublished number like he had full control of the phone company. but i love pranks. i pulled

>> yes, i was. people close to amy believed it was blake who got her from soft drugs like marijuana which she had admitted taking when she feels a teenager to hard drugs, cocaine, ecstasy, heroin? >> i don't know about ecstasy, but cocaine and heroin, yes, i do. >> and as her father how did that make you feel? when you thought this guy that she's in love with, hooked up to, is driving her to this kind of thing? >> i was sickened, i did everything in my power to stop the relationship. but, again, what can you do? she really loved blake. >> did you ever confront him? >> oh, frequently. >> and his family. >> what would you a? >> leave my daughter alone, leave us alone. you're killing my daughter. he would say, well, i'm not killing her. he would admit to nothing. and his family were in denial, which made it more difficult because we had them to deal with as well, which is very, very painful and very difficult. >> did they not believe that he got amy to the hard drugs? >> no. they believed at one point t

i was scared and i was there. when we notice that the levees were preaching at the 17th street canal i told my staff, everybody leave except for the most central people. we had a skeleton crew that stayed behind. everyone was leaving because we didn't know whether the water was ever going to stop flowing. so it was tough but i wish they would have come back after the water went down and really dug in and tried to help. politics kicked in and scapegoating and all that stuff. it was something. it was something. have we got a couple more? >> hi, if thought i would try another question about political aspiration. i'm recalling an interview he did with anderson cooper a couple of years ago. >> my buddy. >> if i remembered correctly what i took from it was you indicated after you -- saw how poorly president obama did in louisiana after the election, perhaps your chances of being governor of louisiana were good so i guess my question would be if that were to change, if you knew you had a reasonable chance to be elected go

i was just sitting wondering why i was arrested. now, i didn't know there was -- it had anything to do with the fight that happened. so i was just sitting there and concentrating why i was there. and maybe two or three hours, like i said, passed, and an officer walked into the room and said, we investigate violent crimes. is there anything you want to tell us? and i said, no. and he closed the door and walked back out. so i was sitting there like violent crimes? why am i here for a violent crime and i was started thinking and i really didn't know what he was talking about. and maybe another hour came, passed again and came back in and asked, you know, is there anything you want to tell us? can you tell us what happened in august of 1999? and this was -- this was march of -- this is march of 2000. and i told the guy, i can barely remember what happened two months ago. [laughter] >> you're asking me about something that happened in august? so he thought i was playing with him or something and he walked back -- he actually said, are you

long i was going to be there. saw this guitar that was unusual. i ask to see that one. i bought it. inside there was all of the artifacts of this artist called red river dave. there are pictures of him playing it. the next day i got a phone call saying he couldn't beat martina mcbride in national. -- nashville. i had never done anything apart from play with a curious mix. it became this weird odyssey. i did not have black bird and studios in had a feeling -- ended up at black bird studios and had a feeling i should make an album. great, it is going to be great. i had not written anything. i was going to go there anyway. the nynex to me was like, what is this guy doing? i arrived at the studio and pretended that it was all worked out. i would say to them, i would play a bit and i would say that is exactly it. i would quickly go and write to the words. after the first today, we laid down four songs. i said i am from england. i do not make country music but one thing i am good at is making a vodka martini. every time

i was walking and a young man ran up to me who i know, profusely bleeding. someone hit him in the head with a pipe. he was gushing blood. i grabbed him and my old military days stop the looting. i said, get the cops here and tenderloin police were here within 45 seconds. that is very impressive. they are impressive people. thank you. >> next speaker. >> hello. you may know me from 2007, i lost my son in a drive-by shooting. today i have with me my mother. i am here today because we have not had just as with my son's case and now, my mother was a salted. nothing has been done. she made a report on 9/11 that -- at 0030. at1730, i made another report. and information about the perpetrator who assaulted her at that time. inspector hudgins within the hour was able to help us. got the address of the perpetrator, followed through, ask him to surrender, he did so the next morning, posted a $40,000 bail and got out. that was on monday, 9-12. now we just found out four days later, i think it was friday last week that the da drop the charges. this is on just. what is wr

was great. had nothing to lose. and i had no idea what was going to come and that's a free place to really free play you know you're you know what's going to happen you know where you're going but you know what you're doing. it. yeah and that was my introduction to be a certain scope presidio stockade. population for sure usually upwards it was good i think in the cold war if you succeed then there were so sometimes double that in there. that were crowded. for which. it was sure guards were mean it was easy fun. with the nine for peace held in military prisons soldiers throughout the bay area began planning for the first and she wore demonstration in the country organized by g.i. some veterans i was in a member of the medical committee for human rights we got together a number of times and talked about how we were going to organize active duty to go to the peace demonstration and then i remember also hearing about the b. fifty two bombers that were dropping leaflets on vietnam urging the vietnamese to defect and i thought

i was taking a class much like this. writers on writing and a writer came to speak to a group of young writers the first writer who came was a poet. and i was i fell madly in love with language. i think that's why i'm probably conscious with the writing process because i began with the foundation of language, which is poetry for me. it made me aware of how to use language. not to over use language. you know things like that that aspects of it. i talk a lot about the writing process for a lot of reasons because i think that if you tell what it really means to be a writer people will think oh , it's not -- i think to a large extent you all think we run with the bulls. you know and you think we are sitting in cafes and i can never write in a cafe because i would watch people too much. how can you sit in a cafe and write a novel? we all have our process. i think the interesting things to talk about is the process how you do it because we all do it differently. i don't run with the bulls or sit in cafes. this is the way i do i

that was a wonderful time. i knew there was going to be a lot of things coming out of that summit because it was the hottest ticket in the city. those of you who are around, you were fighting for those tickets, and i just gave up. i said tommy what i have to do. as we look back at the videotapes, as we look at the press events that followed, we were blessed with a lot of great insights, the encouragement of women from international stature coming from all over the world, attending the summit. that makes it easy for me to say that the things i am doing now and the things i have done are credited to the press assessor's -- are credited to the predecessors who came before. it is great for me to introduce someone who has earned this title, dear to me and all of san francisco, this year's man of the year award, will the brown jr. -- willie brown jr. [applause] >> mr. mayor, thank you very much. i am just delighted that you were in position to be able to present this to me, and i will work and see if i can win it next

that was what i noticed about her. she didn't realize it herself, but she was wearing a lot of armor to keep herself from getting hurt. i wondered how i could let her take off the armor because i thought her real appeal was hidden underneath. in order to open up, she needed to reflect on her past. she advised her to write a biography. >> i think what i have to do is watch from a distance as she struggles and tell her from time to time everything is already. it is okay to take off the armor. >> i almost forgot about ai's existence. writing was a great opportunity to take a fresh look at ai and how i can reconcile ai with my present self, hanukkah. >> she had to revisit growing up without her manager's love and accept both her former self and her mother. coming to grips with the past, she found her true self. >> on her last day, we went to look for a place where she used to live, relying on her memory. ai was taken from the child facility by a man who was her mother's boyfriend at the time and lived with him. >> translato

i was in alaska in 2010, looking for a place to live because i knew i was going to be out there for a few months, and i wanted to live in wasilla because in that point in my research, about 80% of the people i needed to talk to were in or near wasilla, but i couldn't find anything there, so an hour and 20 minutes away in anchorage, much bigger city, i found an apartment, and a little mother-in-law partner rented by a schoolteacher, and i was going to go over there at six o'clock that night to sign a four-month lease for that apartment, and at three o'clock that afternoon, by cell phone rang, and it was a woman named katharine taylor calling said i've been trying to reach you were months because i heard you're coming back this summer, and i heard you're looking for a place to live, and i have a house in wasilla that would be available for you to rent. i said, well, where in wasilla is this located? she said, well, it's next door to todd and sarah palin. i said, this is my lucky day. i drove up there the next day, looked at the house, and moved in the following weekend. >> host: what wa

and i was stuck back at the center. and another time i dreamed i got hit by a mortar and for some reason my mom was with me and it just really hurt and i could see like blood all over the place. so those were really the worst times. >> he was laying down in his bed. we were standing up around him, just trying to talk with him and he was in and out of it, really drugged out. there were maybe like five guys here and he's telling us about what he's seeing and the morphine kind of making him, you know, visualize a couple of things. he's like, yeah, i am fighting off these aliens right now. they are just walking around and now they are zombies, and he looks up and he sees, he looks at me and my friends, he's like, oh, you guys are here, too. he's like, well, oh, you're falling through the ground. you guys are sinking through the mud and he's like, bye, guys, bye, good luck with that. then he's like, i just got back from japan. he still had a good sense of humor. >> i wanted to get a funny hat for my mom, because i thought tha

i was gardening. i didn't know what had happened because i was outside. the second plane hit the tower and i was in the library. i didn't know if the whole country was under attack. and i called my daughter. i just had to say i love you. if i can't see you again, i love you. we didn't know. so when i finally figured it all out, it still wasn't enough just to say -- i just had to tell them all those people that we love each other and that's in our hearts not. matter who we are in our differences and diversity in this country, we come from the strongest stock on earth. we're made up of everyone. so when people attack us, we're so strong. it's not going to break us. not ever. host: all right. thank you for calling in. elizabeth tweets in, i was coming in from work in charlotte and i came and turned on the tv and there it was the second plane hits tower two. i was shocked, she tweets into us. lucky in chicago. good evening to you. caller: good evening. thank you so much for the service that you're doing for us. i was thinking about a commercial i had seen a c

say that i was a drum major for peace. i was a drum major for righteousness. >> stephen: stirring. humble. and if we're being brutally honest, a little wordy. which is why on the monoment the quote was paraphrased so that it would fit on the north side of the statue. it now reads, "i was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness." boom. short, pithy, to the point, not dr. king's point, but still. you now what they say, brevity is the soul of saving money on chiseling fees. but some people out there don't appreciate dr. king getting the reader's digest treatment. civil rights activist and walking gravitas geyser maya angelou spoke out against the rewarding saying, "the quote makes dr. martin luther king look like an arrogant twit. he was anything but that. he was far too profound a man for that four-letter word to apply." or as she'll one day be paraphrased, dr. martin luther king, an ar gantd twit, he was a four-letter word. so everybody, everybody please just calm down. this is a memorial. it's about how we remember dr. king, no matter what he may have actually said. i know

and once i got on my life vest it was time to take my seat ok i trust you completely. and my life in this very small and snug contraption. with just a gas pedal and no brakes to worry about it did seem pretty easy to drive and there was at least one quick way to slow down. this little safety line is going to require pull it. out fingers crossed. this. super. computer quick push from the bank was all. these things you want to come back. for you let me be i said or were to say the ball about because that is incredible who who. joined us have to go through a rather unusual club ritual. but heck a bit of bone needs to finish off russian tradition of the more. i was about to attend crossing the most to still strong laden event yeah. it's pretty sad to say that the gym and i have never been that close bus they're all people who can teach their own body weights in a day and lift the equivalent of around five big men and if you can do that maybe you can compete in the us in some some competition. and i think. of it here. as one of the guys in charge of it all. before. last and.

it was i had been harassed a great deal. it really was a really small town, and i stuck out due to the way i you looked, the music i listened to, things like that. so i had been harassed for quite a while before these murders took place. >> were you a troublemaker? or were you just a bit different? >> the most trouble i had ever gotten into was running away from home as a teenage ir, something like that. >> ever broken the law? >> no. >> you were into heavy metal? >> exactly. >> you liked reading stephen king books. >> right. >> allegations but nothing wrong with stephen king, nothing wrong with liking ozzie osborn or whoever it was. >> in 1993 i hadn't even heard the word but now it's common. they say i was goth. you didn't have that in small towns back then. it drew a lot of notice from a small town crowd. it made me stand out and sort of made me a target. >> so what happened? >> just immediately, as soon as it happened, people said a murder this horrific couldn't have just happened. you know, what would have been the reaso

[music] yesterday i was standing outside. there was a deli. a lot of people outside and i say, gosh, did [inaudible] they are in love and i'm sitting here alone trying to keep dry from the rain. they have an umbrella. what am i going to do i'm all alone xi think. may be they are not so happy. ever think of that? [music] i think to myself -- here comes [inaudible]. i think, well -- he asked me for the time. that's all he wanted was the time. i look up -- quarter to 3. he said, thanks. i knew better because i thought, next time he'll ask me something more interesting than the time. [laughter]. [applause]. okay. so, we have 2 more songs for you this evening. this second to last song is a beautiful song. it kind of is a folk song people know. probably when you hear it you know it if you heard yiddish songs before. it's talking about a little girl, don't say a word. the god of abham will come. not yet, you have to respect there is not 3 stars in the sky means the jewish is that bot will apeer. wait a minute and it's a beautiful song i hope you will

but anyway, i was quite amazed when i went to see a rough cut of the movie that it was what i wrote, very much what i wrote, except those two dumb sentences: "hey, let's go to the roadhouse" and "hey, let's come back from the roadhouse..." [laughter] which destroyed the claustrophobia that was very important to me in the film. so i saw this rough cut of a very, very good, tough movie. it puzzled me a little bit when i saw it as to why it was being shot in black and white, since when i wrote the play, i wrote it in color, you know. but i realized that even back then, a serious movie had to be in black and white, that if a serious movie was in color, it wouldn't be taken seriously. very, very interesting. so i saw the rough cut without the music, and it was a good, fair, honest, tough representation of my play. then i saw it a second time, when they added the movie music, and the whole thing changed. all of its ambiguities and all of its toughness were softened by the movie score-- you know, the score that tells you when you go to a movie how you're going to-- supposed to react and wha