what, what, what was it at a young age that made you think you wanted to do.do this as opposee to ann things you might have done? >> banks: mm, mm. well, i never had one of those aha moments, i think myself as a writer.. >> smith: yeah.& >> banks: .of, of seriouu literary depressing fiction. [laughter] >> banks: that, that never occurred to me. >> smith: i guess i'm -- i'm comforted to know that. [laughter] >> banks: [laughs] that's good. no, no, originally i, i wanted to be a visual aatist. it was he only observable talent i had... >> smith: you were interested in painting, right? >> banks: yeah. >> smith: yeah. >> banks: and, and it's, it's sort of the.if, if you have some talent and it, it, it -- it manifests itself in an observable way and so people praise you for it and you like the praise so i think i'll.that's what i úant to do, i want to become an artist, a visual artist. and i, and i.when i was 11 years old and i'd, i'd dropped out of college after about six weeks and ran off to -- i hitchhiked down that winter to florida with the intention of joining fidel castro and che gue

sanctions on a nuclear program that our intelligence community said didn't exist and president bush opposeedss. by the way so, did joe biden on the floor of the senate and barack obama. i always say if you want to know what foreign policy position to take, find out what joe biden's position is and take the opposite opinion and you'll be right 100% of the time. they opposed me. he actively opposed me. we did pass that bill eventually at the end of 2006, and it was to fund the pro democracy movement. $100 million a year. here's what i said -- we need to get this -- these pro-american iranians who are there, who want freedom, want democracy, and want somebody to help them and support them. well, we put some money out there and guess what? barack obama cut it when he came into office. and when the green revolution rose, the pro democracy prose, we had nothing. we had no connection, no correlation, and did absolutely nothing to help them. in the meantime, when the radicals in egypt and the radicals in libya, the muslim brotherhood, when they rise against either a feckless leader or a friend of our