barlett, whong he had a friend received electroshock therapy treatment. he actually experienced it.he said it was terrifying and horrible. he was able to portray that well in his book. noon onat is today at "book tv," the c-span cities tour. let's go to san antonio on the republican line with stephen. enjoy: i want to say i your show. i have a quick comment regarding universal income. one thing i have not quite never understood why everybody advocates for this, in the back of my mind, there are native americans who received government assistance, and it has not helped them that much. when people are looking for an example, that is not an example. if you have been to a native american reservation, they do have a lot of problems. the money does not help much. think it would help our greater society, so that is one comment. host: thank you for contributing. ,ebbie from punta gorda florida. she is on the democrat line. caller: nice to talk to you. i was wondering, could we create jobs by helping the middle class? the middle class has some jobs that don't assist or help out. i can't your

host: i wonder your thoughts of viewers whong, for do not know, one of the place where members both sides of the aisle come together and there is and it is chur additionally one of the positive moments of the summer for congress -- guest: particularly sad. i think the stadium gets largely sold-out. a lot of money. i think i was way the worst player on the field. just going to practices alone was really fun. you have people on the field any see them in a different way. the positive way. i know you are someone who is a strong advocate of more gun control. is that on your mind today? although this is probably the worst possible time to make a gun-control argument. it is a rifle rather than the kinds of things we're kind -- trying to control. it will be interesting to see who the shooter was pyramid he of these cases are people with mental illness, from the reagan shooter to virginia tech. we don't really know but it may , the rifles not typically one of the things in the front part those are debate, further discussions. i think all of us would like to see much less gun violence than we have.

the man whong to covers trump's businesses on bloomberg.at a time, we are looking for new office based that has fallen? core of hishe empire from the 1980's and ,990's, you have trump tower ,0% of another office building and if you look at how those buildings are doing as compared to the appraisals banks have set out for them when they made loans to get these properties, they are really not keeping pace with hopes. previously, we relied on those bank appraisals before seeing most recent financials. yes, we revised our value of those three assets down in our most recent iteration of this exercise. david: help us understand the particular difficulties of your job, especially when it comes to this president or this individual in particular. what are you looking at to come up with a $2.9 billion? >> we are looking at the data that he has available to us, and these big assets were fortunate to have asset -- access to mortgage document, investments by his lenders, and for other things like his hotels, we have a sense of the revenue we are generat