not i was not allowed to. board i was lowly. guilty pleasure watching the bachelorette could do an impression of me do you do impressions i don't do impressions ok but. best compliment you ever got i mean you're more accessible than i thought let's see here what else all you have. all you have abnormally large irises. really i don't knows. what never fails to make you laugh. when somebody passes gas. why is that i don't put anybody children animals doesn't matter some do you wish you were better at it play an instrument they would be wonderful. also like lifting heavy objects but would you speak fluent polish it's pretty good i'm a little rusty you could you go to poland have conversations with people i could i think i made might listen nuance and stuff but i could definitely you know have a conversation order have you been to poland multiple times yeah i've been there maybe ten times let's warsaw like it's different change so much mongol in warsaw is professor there and it's changed so much since the first time i went there when

>> well, i was still in shock but i was devastated. once it became clear the electoral college was going the other way. i had to do several things which i did and described. i had to call donald trump, which was something that i can barely remember. i had to reconstruct it. it was surreal and he was unprepared. i had to call president obama and tell him how sorry i was because i knew there would be a great effort under a new administration, the other party to undo much of what he had accomplished and then i had to work on a speech. i wasn't prepared to go out until i'd gotten all that done and by then it was 1:30, 2:00 in the morning. we had to find a place to deliver a concession speech which my stalwart band of people did and i showed up and delivered it the next morning. >> charlie: richard cohen reminded me of this, the fox knows many things and the hedgehog knows one big thing. is that sort of what happened here? >> i think if you look at it, we -- certainly i, thought i was running a campaign about many things but it turned out i

it was. i was the emotion i had trouble dealing with because there is so much certainty in my sport and my life in terms of scheduling and knowing what to play for, what to train for. so i really missed that. i missed knowing what was ahead of me. i really didn't know. doing that time i experienced different things, i got to be with my family, study a bit and do some internships but ultimately i missed what i did. i have a choice of not playing any more, i've achieved so many amazing things, i had the opportunity to say, it has been a great ride and this time to do other things but it never really crossed my mind. it felt good to know that i still wanted it. that there were no question marks about whether i wanted to return or not. back to the meldonium, it has been banned from your sport because it is now regarded as a performance enhancing drug because it increases heart rate which can increase endurance and stability. but you were not taking it for that reason. the problem i have with that i

i'm his -- i was -- [ laughter ] >> and i have none of the pictures. >> jimmy: i'm always shirtless atp being useful, because they told us to play football, but it was like -- you know, like, model football. but i was like, red faced, sweating, nostrils flared, like, "uhh." at one point one girl said, "get her away from me." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: really? >> and then, yeah. and then when i went to do the shoot with bruce, hang on. we did -- when had done this photo. how does this work? >> jimmy: it's a magazine. >> oh. >> jimmy: oh, wait. >> so we had done this photo, where my hair is all greasy. and so next day i showed up and tried to wash my hair like six times. and it just was not going anywhere. and so i showed up, hadn't seen him since i was 15, all sweaty and disgusting. i showed up like a grease ball. they're like, "what are we going to do? we have to wash your hair." and, uh, i speak french too. >> oh-la-la, saison. ohh -- >> yeah. you're not the only one. >> jimmy: look at this the horse whisperer. i mean, look at this. >> yeah, i don't know if the horse is doing that because

i was with the rides. i had no intention to become an editorial cartoonist but i felt there were a couple situations that happened that i decided i wanted to become one. host: what were the situations? ann: ok. so i was working for the disney company and i was doing a freelance project late at night and i had my television on as background noise as i usually did and this was 1989. and the tiananmen square massacre happened. i was so upset about it at the time even though i had a freelance job i had to finish i decided to stop and just create my own editorial cartoon. i did not intend to get it published or anything like that, i felt the need to do one. i knew about editorial cartooning, but just from an art standpoint. i admire artistic opportunities. like paul who is an incredible drafts person so i was always looking at his work. so that got my interest. that somehow made me want to read the news. i started watching c-span then in 1989. i became more interested in social issues. what finally propelled me

i knew that was common to my friends were going to the same thing i did not realize that affect it was having on me and tell of looked back. >>.xp >> not as pleasant as i thought it would be. >> and had day happy home life i was searching for that family stability but i realized i had become of incredibly attached to my grandmother even with my mom we would spend a ton of time with our grandparents we would spend more and more time with their grandparents is a weird moment ith recognized my dad had a mobile home but i was so desperate to get back to mye grandma's house that is what s i did. so in that moment that is to become the chief caretaker. >>. >> and the shock of his passing away?. >> select it affected me as of the situation in growingg up that my grandfather was the closest thing i had to egad during the formative years he took care of thingsear, , major we had all the things the kids need and the emotional support and that it was something we retaking care of. to be called when family drama was happening he never flew off the handle and papaw did not. so affecting me in diffe

so i was an agnostic, but by the time i got graduate school, i was shifting to be an atheist and i would comfortable keeping quiet if somebody was talking about the supernatural. it is all about nature and how you study it and describe it. then i went to medical school, and that third year of medical school where you are thrust out on to the wards and are sitting bedside with wonderful people whose lives are under threat and many of whom are not going to survive, you realize your own thinking about life and death has been pretty unsophisticated compared to the reality of what these people are facing. i realized i was a scientist and . i was supposed to make decisions about important questions based on evidence, but i never really considered whether there might be evidence supporting the idea there really is a god. i just assumed the answer was no. and that was a bit unsettling, but it seemed like something i should not ignore, so i began sort of asking those people i knew who were believers, how can you do this without checking your brain at the church door? because isn't this just a irf

and she was not always tell me about it but i knew she was being called in for meetings and so i decided, being -- i decided i will go back. i will do another story. i will pick some more stories, which i did, and i will just check on her. and so i went back to damascus in 2008, in the spring of 2008. and i immediately moved into her neighborhood. and i will read you what happened. by the way, i was staying in, i call it a hotel because they call the hotel. [laughter] i do not know if the rest of you would call a hotel. it is sort of a pilgrim's hospice but it was cheap and it was clean. two things that you look for. the day began like any other. awakened at dawn by the call to prayer. i fell back to sleep for another hour. when i woke again i felt along the walls for the light switch. scanning for cockroaches before stepping barefoot to the stove where i struck a match to heat water for coffee. i took a quick shower since the one in this part of damascus was not only undrinkable but in short supply. then pulled on a pair of jeans and a longsleeved shirt that covered my arms to the wrist

i was-- i was like-- like, i was dead. >> stephen: so what did you say back? i learned so much from your stories and i just think you're amazing. also, happy birthday. i didn't know what to say. >> stephen: i'm not sure if i would have had the courage to write back right away. >> i didn't, actually. i took, like a week because i was drafting. i was like, "this is trash, this is trash." >> stephen: did you show it to everyone you know first? >> i did, i did. i was, like, really workshopping it around to a lot of different people. i was like there are no bad ideas and then there were a lot of bad ideas. the main thing i did want to know what house i would be in if i went to hog warts. >> stephen: i heard about this, too. what did she say? >> i didn't ask her via d.m., because i was afraid to tweet and also it seemed like such a big deal. it's to big a deal to slide her d.m.s about. my boyfriend was like-- we were at a bar, maybe a month and a half ago, and we were drinking and he said, "you should message her." and i was like what? and he said, "you should messa

i was scrambling, i was scared. i got wrong on the phone and the first thing out of his mouth was , j, what you think. do you think? important whatre you think. to bringsible for me him down to atlanta? what you guys to meet. toflew to atlanta, we went rob's house and we are all talking. wasof the things rob said it is my son's high school homecoming/ guys tould love you join us. i told my son this is not uncle richard like we thought. he is over on the highschool football field having lunch with his friends. he came down and he crossed the he -- rob says i want tripp, the mike havee in the picture we had hanging in our home all these years. said thatis hand and her i'm glad to see you are alive. i did not realize how many lives it affected. ago ia year and a half marines the same in that church with us at andtico and we sat down had dinner. it was a great evening. greyer andolder, i feltre -- fortunate to be alive and see all these guys again. they saved my life. i would never have made it out of there alive. and t

colonel flynn, i don't know what he was, i don't know, maybe a general. what he was complaining about was under his own control. it's not feasible for the national intelligence community to divine what's going on in village x, only if you're there on the ground and he had a lot of intelligence resources, so, you know, certainly cultural, i guess you call it cultural intelligence, understanding the broad dynamics of afghanistan, understanding particularly the tribal nature of afghanistan, those are very important things. when you get down to the level of detail that he was asking for, i think it was kind of on him to attend to that. so, i don't know that it had some profound impact on what certainly was going on in-- back in the united states. if that's your question. >> all right. we'll try over on this side. all the way toward the aisle there. no, that's you, yeah, please, go ahead. >> hi, i'm evan. thank you so much for coming and talking to us today. you talked a lot about how people have sort of a weird double standard for collecting intelligence and i

and i was lucky enough to do that. i got out of the marine corps and i had applied at upi news pictures. as the boss said to me in new york, we got so tired of getting letters from you to have a job that we decided to stop the letters and hire you. i ended up coming to austin, texas. i worked on the american-statesman here. it was the very beginning of my career. upi had a unique setup, where we had a contract to be there staff as a group of photographers. only the photographic and of it. of course, i got to know austin and the people here. and i really grew very fond of austin. ,t the beginning, i thought "what a great gig," as we used "to hook on to a lucky break like that." so that was the start of my career here. but that was right at the beginning of june, july of 1963. i came on board. and of course, as we all know the kennedy assassination , happened in november. of course, i got involved with it right away. because i had walked into the office at noon time, and i was reading the a-wire when the first dispatch --

i didn't know it was going to be so apt when i was working. i've been working on it for a couple of years. but what it came out of was all these years i spent not only interviewing people on the science program which i did for 11 years, but the decades before that learning to be an actor which really involves the very things you need to communicate, listening deeply, truly. >> you don't just write this stuff. you didn't just write it. you teach this stuff. >> yeah. and i help start a center that's now called the alda center for communicating science. and we taught over 8,000 scientists and doctors to communicate better around the country and across the world. so we have a lot of experience. i've been doing it for eight years. i have a lot of experience to draw on. >> yeah. other than the fact you do this program, is there a reason you start as scientists and doctors? >> because of the program. i was so -- i was learning so much from this scientists that i talked to and the reason i was learning was because we didn't have the conventional interv

the manuscript once it was done. iconsulted with him throughout the process certainly having the family of robert smalls whether he was white, black or agent --dash mike asian was very important to me. it was sent by anyone down. my goal is to get the accurate story i wanted to elevate someone that i thought was a hero. it was very important to listen to anything that came up. when eccles mother mentions that we were going to use the term slave on the title of his journey from slavery. he was opposed to that. i completely understand why now. and we made that argument with the editor. he was very gracious about it and understood. the last thing i wanted to do was insult people that it was really trying to help. it was kind of a daunting thing. i don't know if i fully realize how daunting it was. i was really just overwhelmed by his story and i think he is an american hero that we should all be looking to the onto being african-american and obviously that was important aspect of his story. that is what really made me dec

you know i was a video clip of. the start of the world was the beginning of the end for us our gliders were confiscated so that the hitler youth pilots could use them for training it didn't matter that the planes belonged to us and we'd worked so hard to get them museum. they said we'd get twice and three times as much off to germany won the war. for your one you know. life goes on if we really weren't aware of the danger for. us when we were berets to protest if i did. yeah once on a train in berlin cuttlebone just fun bacon and her sister discovered that the last few carriages of some trains were transporting french prisoners of war the girls managed to get into the crowds of prisoners near the trains and gave them cigarettes also. a hundred notes to the soldiers and took their letters to pounce on. what is resistance when does it start. my fight back home. and my father came over one sunday and introduced us to a pretty girl for. i love how. sure hit me because she was wearing the varian clothes made of lowden woo

certainly early on i was part of a divorce my parents and so when i was growing up i was thinking. i feel like there's a problem with the system here potentially it's just archaic at this point the concept is do we split after seven years she was that well it's all in the movie actually follows three different couples all the different times in their relationship and different types of relationships and it's all through the lens of the sort of pretentious documentarian who sort of descends her sort of big world politics and concepts onto a small town and she is trying to prove her thesis that marriage should be a seven year contract with an option to renew seven year itch yeah. you. right to do so i did the second album so yeah i i i do enjoy doing that and that's hard because you know i think some people get squeamish seeing their their performances but i just never had that saying i did another movie called in a world that was the first time i had directed myself and it was like groove you think you know a version of that and it was it was i wasn't sure if it would work that i cou

i had to get this up. it was like concrete in my gut, a solid concrete bolt of pain in my gut that i had to get up piece by piece. c-span: what kind of therapy? >> guest: all kinds of therapy, you know? going to the marin kinds of guru groups, going to a therapist, the whole thing. talking about it, trying to get it up, trying to be able to say how i felt, the pain of it. therapy of sitting with it, reading about it, reading most of it done personally in terms of reading, okay, what should this be like? and then the therapy of writing about it, just writing over and over again. this is what happened, writing down to the core of my dealings. then allowing them -- my feelings. then allowing them to come up. one morning i remember arising at 5 and crying from 5-12 and then being able to write. sitting in a room by myself, spent a lot of time by myself to write this book. almost a solid year by myself. didn't work, didn't -- supported by my daughter, actually. i couldn't have done it without her to write the book. so

i was like "yeah." rs off or not, we had to get this thing out. >> reporter: the surgeon and the sergeant for territory. they would have to rely on instinct for this one. >> i would have rather have sergeant brown than 50 other surgeons in that room at that moment, because he was the right guy to help me. every time i'd -- he'd leave, i felt like my security blanket had gone away. >> reporter: and here are the stunning images documenting the actual surgery. in an act of medical brilliance, and bravery, the good doctors reach inside moss, steadying the still lethal rocket, inches from the soldier's beating heart. >> almost there, got three more inches. >> reporter: using a hacksaw, sergeant brown gently saws off the fins and eases the rocket out. with the detonator aimed at his own body. >> if it had detonated, then it would have detonated into his flak vest. >> >> sergeant brown took it. >> and carefully walked out? >> he walked out at a smart pace. >> reporter: once outside, brown takes the rocket to a

i became a californian when i was here. people always accused me of having the new york accent and new york walk. but i loved it here. it's been just the greatest stuff, professional, 17 years of my lichlt it's been my joy, my life's work. and so it's time to return home to my family. and to help one of the great orchestras beside the los angeles philharmonic. it's funny that i worked for two philharmonics, new york and los angeles. to really assume its rightful place in the pantheon of orchestras. it's interesting. the new york philharmonic is you 175 years old. it is the oldest orchestra in america. and what's interesting to me about that is you know i'm a futurist. i'm always thinking about where can we go? what can we invent? and what i want to be able to be a part of is work with the musicians and the board and the community is to not be weighted down by that legacy but to use it. to move to a vibrant youthful 21st century future. because so much of what has happened here embodies what an orchestra of the 21st century c

it is what i wanted when i was at this table. is what i looked forward to, that competition that i missed so much of playing the game that i have been doing since i was a young girl. getting that back in april was extremely special. i certainly have had my ups and downs with injuries since that, and having that memorable u.s. open a couple of weeks ago. charlie: why was it memorable? maria: memorable for a few reasons. one, because i had not played at the u.s. open for a few years because of the suspension and because of previous injuries. and it was the first grand slam back after 19 months. there was just something more in the air. there is just something, there is a sense of excitement. there is nothing like going out and playing a primetime match at the u.s. open. charlie: and you beat the number two seed. maria: the number two seed. i came home to the hotel room after that match and felt happy. it was a really good feeling. a really good feeling to have. the next day, i did not get much sleep. it was a late-night match. afte

i knew something was wrong. i knew something was very wrong. i knew the president well enough at that stage. walking into the classroom, behind the second classroom, there was a hold room. that is where the president and staff were there. there was a tv in that room. immediately, when we left the classroom, we walk in and seeing those images on the tv screen, the live images of the burning towers, i will never forget. i was stunned. i knew that day -- the day would be huge. in terms of history. not knowing how big and how bad it would get. i did not even know at that stage it would be such -- even more, with the attacks in washington and all the planes involved. but my immediate thought was to connect what was happening in new york with what the president was doing. and the president walked into the room, and i was waiting to make that picture to stop and see the images on tv. he never stopped. he walked over, picked up a notepad, and started writing down, collecting information. because he was immediately preparing for his first statement to no

i was is or 14 years old. he gave me a little black bookok to keep a record of what i saw when i was watching it. gave me 10 shares of chart house, a restaurant company. he gave it me, because it is new orleans restaurants owned by char house. it was $20 a share but he paid $220. i said, well 10 shares at $20 a share. so it is $200. what is the other to bucks? that is what we had to pay to sandy to buy the stock. i said, i'm going to egg his house. that is outrage just. that is outrage just, he charges to bucks, what does he do, make a phone call? how does that happen? i can remember being outraged at the value assigned the role back then. >> then you invented online trading. we should talk just as a novelty, about your new book, "the undoing project." so till us how you got into that. it's a little different fromth your other books. more about psychology. a little more academic. is it really fundamentally a friendship book? is it about friends? i >> i think it's a love story. you know the movie, a love story,

[applause] >> i was so worried. [applause] >> i was so worried. it was raining, and i thought booklovers are going to want to stay in bed and read. but here you are. thank you and good morning. [applause] >> and welcome to the 2017 national book festival. i am carla hayden and i'm the 14th library and of congress. as you can see, as you can see, i am pretty excited to open this event, our 17th consecutive celebration of books and reading and it is wonderful to see a bold house in our largest presentation space. not only do we have a full house here at the convention center but we also have millions of people joining us live on facebook. thanks to everyone for joining us. we have a fantastic lineup of authors this year and what better way to kick off the festival then with one of our nation's most beloved historians, mister david mccullough. [applause] >> david mccullough is here for his sixth national book festival appearance, we hope you will continue to make this a habit. he will be followed by diana, the author of the wildly successful outlander

>> i was working for the disney i hady late at night and my television on as background noise, this was 1989, and the tiananmen square esker happened. -- massacreeing happened. just decided to stop and create my own editorial cartoon. i did not intend to get it published or anything like that, i felt the need to do one. i knew about editorial cartooning, but just from an art standpoint. i admire artistic opportunities. that got my interest. that somehow made me want to read the news. i started watching c-span in 1989. i became more interested in social issues. i -- what finally propelled me to become an editorial cartoonist was in 1991, the anita hill-clarence thomas hearings. as a young woman who worked and dealt with sexual harassment and see it firsthand, i was appalled at all of the senators, both democratic and republican. -- they all had the attitude that they didn't believe her and that sexual harassment existed because they had passed laws. well it existed. i put together a portfolio and sent it out. i had no idea what i was doing. >> who did you send it to? i found in newspaper

so i wish there was more that i could have added i was interested in two women who were brought onboard the ship we don't exactly know their relationship to smalls. but i did sign an article later that said, one of the young women that was on there hosted once he was able to buy the home on prince street he hosted a wedding for her and he was consider he considered her his adopted daughter. but what history we'll never know. you know, and that's why fiction is sometimes a feeling you can add that -- show less text 01:04:29 unidentified speaker >> one thing that i we cannily add lidia his mother is the real central figure in his life. i don't think robert smalls is robert smalls without his mother, an robert had the somewhat rare opportunity to grow up at least the first 12 years with her. and you know, traditionally once children got to the point where they could been monetized they were sent to work and robert got a chance to grow with her and mention the quote ting that speaks to something that she invested in. there are other examples where she -- sort of took him places to see the r

thank you i was president of now maybe i gotta go. i think the average viewer just after watching a couple of segments understands that we're telling stories there are critics can't tell when you know why because their advertisers won't let them. in order to create change you have to be honest you have to tell the truth artie's able to do that every story is built on going after the back story to what's really happening out there to the american public what's happening when a corporation makes a pharmaceutical chills people when a company in the environmental business ends up polluting a river that causes cancer and other illnesses they put all the health risk all the dangers out to the american public those are stories that we tell every week and you know what they're working. most people think to stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand out in the music business you just need to ask the right questions and demand the right a

you know many years ago when i was in the klein. be honest i thought he's a nut case what do you what do you heard well i just started to read the things he was going to talk klansman and i was in a case because. approaching klansmen the way you did because you know there's some pretty dangerous people out there all right and then and then course. no ward or june think about darrell for a long time and the years later i came across a discovery channel program and contacted our laughter. and we struck up a conversation and decided you know music music played a big part in it because i came from a town in mississippi indianola mississippi which is also the home of b.b. king and it kind of gave us the conversation i have in it and it didn't build from that. so scott you of course have your own pretty fascinating backstory and we have a couple of tweets on on you also relationship these would be how you were brought up so this is a tweet from sarah she says are people who are members of the k.k.k. brought up at a young age to fear other

that is what i did. that was the longest handshake ever because he looked at me like you never thought about it. he said, i appreciate it. i will get back to you. a week later, it happened very quickly. austin with the chief of staff offered me the job on the spot. he said, we know you are a good photographer because i have that advantage of traveling with the staff. they knew me. they knew my work. the first thing he said was, can you manage? of course i said, yes. --t he really meant was these words stuck with me because during the interview, he also said working at the white house is like trying to drink water through a fire hose at full throttle. he was right. i discovered immediately how much happens and how much i had to manage as being the personal photographer to the president and director of the white house photo office. the first thing i had to do was hire a staff to handle the workload. because i spent all my time traveling with the president and shooting and documenting, try not to miss a thing. what

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. >> i was very afraid that something terrible was wrong. and i got scared. >> reporter: the clues, a missing mercedes. a handprint in blood. and a "musical chairs" of secret affairs! >> we have multiple love affairs? >> yes. there's more women, there's more lovers involved in this whole thing. >> reporter: was this beauty hiding something deadly? >> i wanted to get away. i was scared! >> reporter: how would this hollywood story end? >> i was in fear for my family's life! i'm too young to lose my dad! >> like who are these people? >> reporter: i'm lester holt, and this is "dateline." here's keith morrison with "dark valley." >> reporter: there is a kind of peace here, here in her own chosen exile. the vast pacific for company. how else to live with what's impossible to understand or forget. what began that sunny afternoon far away in southern california's san fernando valley, early may 2012. >> something was really wrong, but a lot more wrong than i could imagine. >> reporter: it was the boy who knew it first, knew something was wrong. his da

so i said, "be in a band with me." and he was't really last, but through him i met pete farndon. through pete farndon, another long story, we found james honeyman—scott, who i think is one of the last great guitar heroes. i'm sorry that he went so early, and at the time when he died, i didn't publicly make much of it, as people would these days, maybe, but i don't think that's right. he really never got his due for the contribution he made as a rock guitar player. that i regret. that's one of the reasons i still do this, actually, because i want them to have their place in history, because that's what was important to them. that is very interesting. it's actually very poignant, because within years of having your big success with the pretenders, when everything really took off in 1980, 81, 82, within a couple of years of that, two of the original band members had died. yeah. both drugs—related. that must have been, for you personally, extraordinarily hard. well, yeah, of course it was, but i'm not trying to make it seem like it w