usually i a month if the soil and a dark corner right your book i actually found a deaver more scholarly with a lot of history and research and the excellent contrast the principles and values that are essentially american with the idea is in those motives of progressive so one of the things that hit me in the first chapter was will be called conservatism is really americanism. what we're trying to conserve those values that made the country began free and prosperous i think that is the best place to start what is americanism to you?. >> that is a great point and that is exactly my point of the book. we have a superficial discussion of america let's figure out what americanism is. populism conservatism so i research and dug-in to this and it took me toolkit cicero and aristotle and even some of the contemporaries like adam smith and so forth. what the term americanism means to spend time on the is even though they did not agree with every single nuance the revolutionary war >> what does americanism mean?. >> we will get into this but the declaration of independence. those of the most cri

can't go we'll hit we'll give you a five thousand dollars so we want you know had a friend in germany deaverdevalued is a pretty big. pretty broad sheet and to their credit they said well you know it makes sense to us it's been. checked and double checked you have quite a reputation will publish it and they put immediately in an english version but if they get anything and so this thing where the present united states is is attacking a foreign country without so much as saying hello to congress and without as much as say a low to the intelligence people yeah that's how bad it was he saw some pictures of these babies and see if they don't and then who covers up for him mad dog mattis secretary and this these are the generals around that they have so that's story my god you know i mean here the russians look on at that and i say my god you know not even the generals could see it could rain him in and watching our media celebrate is move this is the one thing that all of our media loves trump for any time he vamos or sells weapons to another country they're big. remarkable with and i mean all t

some others like mike deaver and , other advertising men who work ed for him and mr. spencer a , sometime campaign manager, but and he would have persisted he would have run again. and won. nancy reagan told me to just didn't know, she said that had never talked about it. that does ring true. reagan was not a man to spend time looking backwards. but my own judgment is if he had lost north carolina, no. reagan would never have come close to ford in delegates. he would not have had the campaign funds to continue his 1976 bid credibly and had he soldiered on he would have been seen as a nagging irrelevancy. if reagan had just emerged from 1976 as a badly defeated candidate come i do not think that he would've tried again in 1980. but even if he had, still believing his destiny was the white house, the 1976 defeat would have seemed like goldwater's crushing loss in 1964, as proof for a time at least that someone so conservative cannot win. a bad defeat in 1976 would've been a huge obstacle to winning the nomination. 1980now just by keeping reagan alive as a candidate, and

so i am most proud of-- and just yesterday, i went to see notes from the field with anna deavere smithin the bathroom, this woman comes up to me and says: "you know, i've watched you all these years. and you did so much for me." i used to just hear people say, "oh, i watch your show. i love you, i love you, i watch your show." and about 10 years in, about the time i started talking to the audience, i would stop people and say: "so tell me, w-what is it, that moved you? why do you love the show? why do you--" and this woman said to me, just yesterday: "you helped me to be more of myself." how is-- and so, that's my-- but being oprah, is it hard to go to the bathroom in these public places? [audience laughs] i mean, isn't that kind of challenging at times? as a matter of fact, it was. because there was another lady attacking me because she thought i didn't do enough for mrs. clinton. so somebody else came out of the stall-- oh, jeez. --this is yesterday, and said: "leave oprah alone, she's just trying to pee." right, quite right. [audience laughs] well, did they follow that advice, or no