clapmac, will that is a little bit how i feel looking around the room is seen so many old friends. so let me start off by, this book really starts with my father. my father died in 2004 and he and he was a connecticut city planner. a mild-mannered city planner. in suburban connecticut who went to the zoning board meetings in the evening. were talking about a racy upbringing i had. but my father kept talking about his uncle, his uncle freeman. my grandmother's older brother and he kept saying he was a really big and vaudeville, he knew people like sophie tucker, he married a showgirl and ultimately he cheated hitler on a nickel deal. wait a second. we are in a suburban connecticut living room, this makes no sense. it was like my father taking me my father taken me aside and sang, you know son, your direct descendent of sitting bull. back okay. after my father died, i didn't really think about freeman bernstein until 2010. that was when a visiting when a visiting cousin from paris showed up and the visiting cousin, second cousin was from a branch of the family i did not even recogniz

clapmac do not forget to become a friend of the festival to ensure that our festival remains a free event[applause]. all audience members are asked to please continue with your day they give her much. >> a former israeli ambassador to the u.s. will talk about some of the challenges facing israel and the middle east including the palestinian complex. will be at the wilson center tomorrow and have live coverage at ten eastern on c-span2. later, discussion of of new privacy rules proposed by the fcc to cover broadband service providers and what those rules might mean for consumers and businesses. that is life in the congressional internet caucus at noon eastern. >> the media teaches us that democrats and republicans are supposed to be at odds with each other. i think that people need to recognize that we need to be respectful towards each other and we need to understand that senators are respectful towards each other and that will be more conducive to getting real policy done instead of just acrimony. >> the the truth is these people we see on television, and c-span are real people. when we

clapmac or other people's heads. but people's heads. but they can't do it.'s have a question. >> thank you mr. trump, we love your tone. >> tone, famous word. >> in 92, when ross perot ran he said should lightning strike and i get elected, we are not going to wait 100 days before his do something, we are going to do something they want. what are you going to do day one? >> so ross perot i don't know much i know a know his son, he made a big mistake. he quit, and a week later he said 0i made a mistake. when he went back it was over. but he had a certain style. i studied it very closely. number one, it is really better to run as a republican and i wanted to run as a republican. i am am leading by so much. the question was asked before, would you ever run as an independent? >> i just want to run and win as a republican. we are this close. we are probably going to run against a woman who cannot win, her her whole life has been corrupt, she is not going to win. so in the first 100 days, we are going to knock the hell out of obama care, we are going to & -- you kn

clapmac he. [applause]. he wasn't elected into office and he wasn't voted in by the media.round check, you can always trust his word. his foreign-policy is perfect. he gets it with discrimination, welfare, healthcare, and border control. he border control. he is the ruler of the nations. he himself was discriminated against as an outcast and crucified. he understands welfare. he feeds feeds the hungry and cares for the needy. he is the great physician who heals the sick and has conquered the grave. he is the one who understands the borders, he gives every nation has boundaries and says to the ocean you come this further and no further. he is the king of kings and is firmly seated on his throne. he's. he is not going anywhere. what we need is to remember who we are. and whose we are. we need to elect leaders who represent the king's ways in our land so that we can have the air cover that we need as the people to begin reviving our nation from the bottom up in the inside out. and to get back to the work that we have neglected over the last 50 years. [applause]. i would like t

clapmac yes i think so, right. we'll definitely do that. so paul just do that. so paul just came out, usa as you know, which is a highly respected pole and we are doing great. [applause]. we are up by ten points over everybody else. so it is just incredible. i think we might even be better than that but who knows right. even if we win by one point, that's okay, that's not so bad. but not so bad. but let's went by a lot. another one morning counsel, we are at 36, ben is at 12, carly's at 10, marco carly said ten, marco is at nine and take cruises at seven. so that is pretty good right we are 36-12. zero jeb got in there too good. mike huckabee, good guys at seven. we are doing great there. a funny one, and, and i always say this but it sorta just got finalized, i thought i'd do good in the debate even though i was being asked to many questions. the funny thing is, for two hours they are asking me question after question, someone asked me 47% were either to me or about me. in other me or about me. in other words they would ask one of the candidates donald trump is

clapmac it much. [applause]. it is good to be here.. the lobbyists lobbyists are swarming on capitol hill, buzzes everywhere, congress is going to revive the corporate tax code and the time is nearly here. so, the lobbyists have a pretty strong elevator pitch, it goes like this. u.s. corporations are paying too much in taxes, the tax corporate rate is 35% which is much higher than the rest of the developed world and it is forcing u.s. corporations to flee abroad. the solution the solution is to/corporate rates across the board. so, that is the elevator pitch. the story of over taxation is everywhere. it is told and retold for lobbyists for giant corporations, told and retold by their friends in congress and promoted by more than one republican candidate for president. i put together a sampling of what the republican candidates have said. ben carson - our government is driving businesses to other countries because our corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. donald trump-art multinational corporations can't compete because

clapmac with common sense and intelligence. we intelligence. it has ever been. so what has happened on immigration is it is all blending and now with migration, the migration is a catastrophe. you have hundreds of thousands, you, you have people who want to pour into all of these countries, you have to see what is happening in germany, there, there have been riots in germany. what the hell is he thinking? they're having tremendous crime where they had none. they have villages overrun, but listen, this could be the great trojan horse of all time. you look at the migration, study it, look at it, now they will start infiltrating with women and children. but if you look at that mike gratian and i am looking at and i'm the first one to pointed out, three weeks ago i'm sitting and same isn't it a it a shame. then i said to myself, wow, they are all men. there were no men, there are so few children, there are so few women. they are all men, they're tough looking cookies. i say what is going on here? then you look at what five or six people did in pari

clapmac week. [applause]. >> we are going to have to leave it at that.k, the title of our lives. the time of our lives. peggy noonan, thank you. [applause]. >> peggy noonan will be with us here in miami a little later today. she she will be taking your calls. right now and are set, here on the campus of miami-dade colleges washington post reporter jody, his upholster plies winner, his latest is called black flag, the rights of of isis. here's what the cover looks like. what happened in 1999 that led to the rise, the creation of isis question marks. >> there is an essential character in this tale, you see his picture on the cover here his name is zarqawi, some people may remind him of the -- the american sniper this was the guy they they were after. he actually became a problem because he got out of jail early. in 1999 there is an amnesty in jordan, he was a prisoner serving a 15 year prison sentence. supposed to be there until he was relatively old man. he ended up getting sprung in his entire group got sprung. this is sort of the beginning points of thi