book is titled bill moyers journal the conversation continues. of bill what about you you helped create the peace corps in one nine hundred sixty one and wonder what that time was like and what did you and your compatriots have in mind for that institution and its impact on american the world and further what might we learn now from those pretty heady times back then i remember the sixty's as a any time in a way. well the early part of the sixty's was a time of great idealism it was permissible to be idealistic that's when the civil rights movement in the south begin with the freedom riders of fifty years ago this fear year begin to really awaken the conscience of the country. what had been the brutal treatment for so long of of black americans out so on a whole another front in another part of the country there was this beginning to believe that there was a moral alternative to war and that you to serve your country you didn't have to put on a uniform and go off and kill somebody or you could actually go out in the peace corps and live in the nei

program bill moyers.so nice to see you. and you too. >> jon: thank you for coming by. i was reading. it's so nice to read the interviews that are compiled in this because it reminds you of just what a great voice you are on television, and it's, you know, pardon me, and i know that you'll be uncomfortable doing this, but what's so nice about your interviews is they provide context but not amnesty. they have this incredible ability to bring out the layers of a story, but not to excuse anything elsement and you may just nod if you want. [laughter and applause] i really appreciate it. so what's your... when you approach an interview, what's your... what's your preparation like? >> well, first my folks and i try to figure out the difference between the important and the immediate because the immediate is not always the most important. and who can speak to what we think is important? we do a lot of research, a lot of reading, a lot of talking and all of that. you know... [laughter] >> jon: i'm going to put sta

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there from the former cia had been lodged in chief and in fact just yesterday legendary journalist bill moyers he's a former c.b.s. correspondent he worked for n.b.c. p.b.s. it was the publisher of news day also a white house press secretary he was just warning about this very issue yesterday here's what he said. so the question of the mainstream media. is one of the most dangerous. toxins. in america today so that's his assessment and it was actually a former n.b.c. reporter who revealed what can happen if you aren't seduced by this relationship with the government she said that asking tough questions about another u.s. or led to her downfall if the network and here's how she recounted that in an interview she said the iraq war started to develop and quote i gave a very controversial speech i sent out a cautionary note to all of my colleagues covering this conflict and i chase in the press corps not to wave the banner and cover warfare and a jingle with dick way it didn't sit well with my employers that n.b.c. i was banished i sat in the outfield for a long time. so really the question that w

this is what bill moyers says "even before "reckless endanger." gretchen morgenson was more port of the decade. now she shows how american taxpayers were suckered by the shenanigan greed, back scratching and guile of financial and political elites who swarm like vultures around fannie mae picking it clean of oversight and accountability while its executives gourd themselvess on the spil spoils. a lon sentence there but very nice. >> rose: >> charlie of course there have been so many books written about it but four years after the crisis erupted in 2007 we don't know the half ofit so what this book is trying to do is first of all to assign some countabili. many of e books that we've read up until now have been sort of these ideas about this being a an actof god. well, this was an act o man or men or men and women. this was not somethinghat just happened. so identifying the cast of characters, identifying people who will have sort of slipped from the scene without really having been as participants is useful. i think it's extremely important to be a