robert latiff is with us courtesy of hugh and fran thomas. robert latiff is an adjunct faculty member of the university of notre dame, director of intelligence community programs at george mason university school of engineers, and therefore study board and intelligence community studies board in the national academy of sciences, engineering and medicine. please give a warm welcome to robert latiff. [applause] >> i think the savanna book festival for having me here. this is an awesome event. first of all, appreciate your interest in my work. the savanna morning news, a really nice review, interview she had with. as a retired military person, i have done a speeches standing in front of a group talking about a book is like talking about your kids. this is a really important topic. probably more so than it has ever been, if you read the news you hear this talk, i saw an article yesterday or the day before in one of the publications talking about drifting toward war, very much like we did for world war i. it is a frightening time and a very timely

host: thomas in mississippi, the boarded there, just air force one on the way to week.-lago this franchigan, line for ahead.ats, go caller: hi. thanks for taking my call. this is completely nuts because is a movie called "wag the dog," and this is what is donald trumph this thing. look at me over here and i'm doing this over here, this is you know, just really strange that nobody can see what will not doing and stand up to this man. he can't even run his own family. times has he been divorced? he can't do his own thing. has he filed bankrupt? a lot more times than we have. i've never filed bankrupt. any time somebody else does omething stupid in the campaign, he blames everybody else. he's fired more people than anything. elk creek, nebraska, republicans. live scene at andrews air force base. go ahead. caller: yeah, good morning. an, i always blame but tarting world war ii, then harry truman or trump, he ight be trying to start world war iii. id truman actually have the congress' permission or did own, you it on his kn -- and now trump wants to move to jerusalem and that strip syria t