then, we have ben franklin. there is a debate on the role that he plays. franklin is immediately elected as president of the convention, but most historians suggest he played very little role in the crafting of the documents. why might that be the case? why would he have such little time to get involved in the actual crafting, brooke? >> he was writing the declaration of independence? >> he is on the other side of the building, creating that, and he is also on the committee that wrote that. nevertheless, he is the president of the convention. to summarize, here are some themes. as we have suggested, they are not well known. they are not well known to us in the 21st century, but they weren't particularly well known in the context of the 18th century either. they have a long history of opposition and resistance to the pennsylvania colonial governments. they have opposed the proprietorship of the penn family. they proposed the wealth, remember a lot of the party were wealthy quaker merchants who controlled the quicker assembly, so they have a long history of o

that's ben franklin. i look for people who had creative minds and his creativity comes from the types of things that you and i can appreciate. it's not just unfathomable they kind of dropped out of school. they become very observant, very curious very much in love. those are the types of people i thought it would be a way to show how a different mix of ethnic groups. or the spiritual sounds coming down. all nailed together. to be a birthplace of jazz. i think i learned almost everything you can learn. what did he like. and so i put that aside and someday i may try to take on that. of time i might work with marsalis you always have things that you might go back to. can you go back to your connection to new orleans. >> i was obviously born and raised there. both my parents and all of my grandparents and ins and uncles went there. so i love the city and the house i grew up in. with a house in the french quarter. especially after the hurricane 15 years ago. i came back as the vice chairman of the authority re

i admired him but i like ben franklin thought and respected and admired him. so when you having to do the downside or story and a biography that's rough, you kind of flinch a bit because you almost feel like these are your friends so you don't want to say anything unnecessarily harsh about them. i think that makes me less of a good biographer in a way that i tend, you know, to try to find the good light i can use on a particular subject but i know that people read my books, including people within the subjects of the books deal with sometimes i was too harsh. that's what you cut a balance. you try to do it honestly but not just rigorously honestly. he also try to do with a good heart, or i do, which is what we see fight can understand why somebody did it this way even though i don't think it turned out to be the right way to do it. >> did you get any pushback from anyone that you have written about the main event particularly happy? >> i think henry kissinger for while was not happy with my biography of him. i think if he we read his own noble piece by citatio

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i remember those times where when i first was in band class, jack martin's ben franklin middle school band, and the first day, because i talked too much, mr. martins made me write lines. but i also -- after i finished writing those lines, he told me i had a lot of talent. he told me i could be anybody that i wanted to be, and he was willing to take extra time out of his schedule to tutor me because he knew i really wanted to play french horn and be first chair. that helped me be a first chair advanced band sooner than anticipated and that's what mission neighborhood is about. we can't leave any of our kids behind. we know what the numbers say. mostly, sadly, the loss of so many african american boys and latino boys in san francisco out of high school, they have an opportunity to succeed if we move forward with programs, we invest in the right programs for the purposes of providing them with the support they need to be a success, and we have proof right here with us today. i want to thank leader pelosi who has been a fearless, fearless advocate. she's not just fighting the challenges o

but having said that, look, there's a long tradition in america, ben franklin said i would rather for ten guilty men to go free than for one innocent man to be convicted. this has kind of been the ethos of america, the presumption of innocence, that the burden is not on the accused but on the accuser to produce some sort of evidence. brett kavanaugh is being tried in the court of public opinion right now. his political future hangs in the balance, and i do think that we have these two competing values right now. either you believe the women or you believe in the presumption of innocence. you really can't do both. i think it's mutually exclusive. by the way, i think that most of the time women are telling the truth. but not always. there are cases like a duke lacrosse case, several examples where people do lie. i fear that we are headed in a direction where if, you know, you've got a big tv show coming out next week or a book's about to drop or you're about to get elected to something, anybody could lodge a charge against you. and if we just assume that you're guilty, that could torped

that most of us do know for making complex decision in our lives and it actually dates back to ben franklin. so we have this kind of strategy for making complex decision and trying to be creative about coming up with all the potential variables and factors and that strategy has basically been stagnant for 200 years, we haven't seen innovation in terms of tools for making these kinds of choices and turns out that there's very rich literature, some of it scientific but some of it creative, artistic that has developed over the last 30 or 40 years that actually does help us make more complex decisions and much of it overlaps with the tools and strategies that we use to be more innovative and creative in our lives, farsighted is lots of crazy stories, whole theme running through through it aboue march and novels and parallel simulation that helps us make choices and big analysis, the decision that led up to the raid on bin laden's compound. i think it's the only book, i believe in existences has threat of bin laden. but anyway, out of two weeks ago. >> already helped me make some complicated --

i remember those times where when i first was in band class, jack martin's ben franklin middle school band, and the first day, because i talked too much, mr. martins made me write lines. but

he was going faster than we are, i can tell you that. [ light laughter ] you want to see where ben franklin'sre is the barn key? [ laughter ] went to the alamo. i went to texas, i had to see the alamo. mrs. stellsic in ames elementary in third grade made a big deal about the alamo, so i went, and i was -- have you been? because i was, is this it? [ laughter ] was there a fire? [ light laughter ] i'm pretty sure i could hold this for two days. [ light laughter ] i always travel with a steak knife. [ light laughter ] i bought the little alamo across the street, which is almost the same size. i set it down, people started lining up for it. [ light laughter ] i'm trying to be a healthier person. that's what people say when they're really fat. [ light laughter ] i'm working on being a healthier person. not that hard, but i'm working on it. [ light laughter ] and if you are fat, healthy people come to your aid usually. louie, i may help you get healthy. louie, i'm going to turn you around. well, you better bring another person. [ laughter ] they bring you healthy food. louie, i brought you a kale s

it was true of ben franklin. terribly worried we would be german highest and that the germans would take over the new country alexander hamilton was an immigrant from the west indies. he thought foreigners would foreign eyes america. in the 19th century there was animus towards the irish, german, central and -- scandinavians, and the earliest 20 century, europeans, southern and eastern europeans, we would like to think of these people today as europe is one big happy family, they didn't think that about the italians, or some of the other people coming. a lot of it is fear that people are not assimilating. but all of the evidence shows that people no matter where they come from do in fact assimilate and assimilate quickly and refugees seem to assimilate even more quickly than immigrants who are already doing a good job. >> hello, our office is working on a bill -- i wanted to hear your input on what >> i think 100,000 is a good number to start do that. we went from 25,000-80,000 -- the key to that you need to put

. >> ben franklin line.franklin very bright. >> wandering the halls of capitol hill to see if he will talk to me and then brett kavanaugh's "special report" at night. ainsley: did you hear that hecklers? he is going to be in d.c. be careful. >> i will need a body guard. peter doocy will be my body guard. steve: he dual that jillian joins us right now with some news. jillian: that's right. good morning. good morning to you at home. democratic congressman keith ellison may step down as deputy dnc chair to focus on his race for minnesota attorney general. >> i will put it like this though, i will be 110% for minnesota all the time every time without fail and so that is something we are beginning to evaluate right now. jillian: coming hours after minneapolis police announced they won't look into domestic allegations from ex-girlfriend karen monahan. we will speak to her lawyer next hour as we see the cases is referred to another agency. killing a child talking about having more kids. casey anthony. now a source

choice and life trajectory with hillary's ben's book ricochets back and forth with a special emphasis on the moment in the middle of thedd century when franklin roosevelt reformed the government contract withed the american people. books and i we have a lot of opportunity a. so let's get to it. could for the folks in the audience who have not read your books, could you each give a ldquick summary of what your bok is about? ch. >> amy: my book is a personal memoir about cover hillary clinton and a national political reporter at the "new york times" took over every personal decision on my life am. i got engaged on the campaign trail, should we have a baby. so i think of it as julia and julia, do you remember that movie and book? butnd politics instead of cooki. so you know i do think you coming way with an inside account and of why she lost, and elshe a predominantly female press core, but it's a very personal book as well. >> ben: "beautiful country, bore figuring out why thinks happen as they did. like a lot of us, i was baffled going into 2016, i was even more baffled and confused when we emerged from 2016, so this book is me trying to figur

franklin roosevelt was going to retire after two terms. the new dealers, watching the boss prepare to depart, of course, were thinking about what is next. that cohort, tommy corcoran, ben cohen, others, were united and apparently fdr was enthusiastic too. that robert jackson was the next standardbearer. if you like it is activities from january to april they are part of the boom. he is giving speeches around the country. they are broadcast on radio. they are covered enormously in the newspapers. the headlines are not ambiguous. jackson for president. roosevelt wants jackson. can he win? the topics are law, liberty, security and the federal prosecutor, the ethical way to do prosecution as part of this range of topics. one thing that jackson stressed was that franklin roosevelt should run for and win a third term. that is clever cover for any personal ambition but also an argument that was a winner. as the world situation changed, certainly by nate -- by may 1940, hitler and the invasion of the low countries and france, and the collapse, roosevelt for a third term was part of his message that was coming true. so that is a fourth dimension. what about jackson for vice pre