. >> guest: this is a really fascinating book by mel adin who is a expert believe it or not in assassinations and is written quite a great deal about the jfk assassination budding covering data in researching that he discovered there have been thousands of attempts on presidents most of which have gone unreported or uncovered or even hushed up to frighten people because of the sinister nature of these. we are timing this to come out in april when a lot of people talk about the lincoln assassination but it's really a fascinating book about threats and plots and assassination attempts on presidents in the 20th century most of which you have never heard of and how they were averted and how the secret service and other agencies help keep the president safe. >> host: the people have spoken. >> guest: the people have spoken and they are wrong. that is what david barzani says and this is again a very interesting thoughtful air reverence and provocative book about the challenges of a pure democracy and what david argues is that we are not a pure democracy and we never worry a democracy. we were a dem