and so well, you know, that's my history with daniel ellsberg. and on almost immediately after meeting, den ellsberg, you spent some real quality time with him. tell us about that. yeah, um, in march of the thing was march of 2015. i flew up to new york. there was a conference, the 72nd anniversary of the dropping of the on tomic bomb on japan. and there were some, there was a survivor there. there were people from japan. dan was one of the keynote speakers and i flew out there because he was a here of mine from when i was a young lad in 8th grade. and i wanted to meet him, and i walked up to him after you had spoken induced myself to him. lied to him, said i was a blogger, and asked if i could interview. and then we went into a, a quiet room and i interviewed him and then we went to lunch. i asked him if he had any lunch plans. they said no, we went to lunch and then i'll get into this later. but i ended up spending 10 days with him at his house in may of 2015. help him with the book of the doomed a machine that was just in its final drafts and i

uh then, uh, daniel ellsberg on. i want to ask you about that quality time that you spent living with daniel ellsberg and with his family. this was during the period when dan was experiencing writer's block of all things in trying to complete his epic work on the history of nuclear weapons. tell us about that and about how he was able to break through and complete that book. well i 1st i'd say just spending 10 days with dan and patricia in their home that um was a life changing for me. and i was, uh, it was a week of my 56 birthday. and dan is a very, very prison man. he without questionnaires may be, was, may be one of the greatest intellects of, of our time a last of the mohicans. and we would sit in his office in studio, in library with a 1000 books on or, and american history. and the 1st or 2nd day that i was there, and just in his presence and with all these books, i was just and, and he would, he can talk, you would ask a question and he could go on one time in our interview, i asked him a question and i think

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we only learned what was really happening in vietnam, thanks to daniel ellsberg and sy hersh. and we're now learning truths from god is a thanks to our next guest. we're very happy to have chris hedges with us today. chris is a pulitzer prize winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for 15 years from the new york times. he's an arabic speaker who served as the middle east bureau chief and later as the balkan bureau chief for the paper during the war in the former yugoslavia. he previously worked overseas in central america for the christian science monitor and p r and the dallas morning news. he's the host of the show, the chris hedges report, which is broadcast on the real news. you can also find his work at chris hedges dot sub stack dot com. chris, thanks so much for joining us. good to have the things done. thank you, chris. you've spent 7 years reporting from the middle east, including gaza. you have a deep understanding of the issues that have shaped the region and you recently attempted to reach the border that divides guys from egypt with other international