. >> children's author emma walton hamill, what this is e could to writing a children's book? >> gosh, i would say respecting children as readers and not talking down to them. if anything, it is all basically about trusting their judgment and their intelligence and hopefully speaking to what interests them and what they are passionate about. >> what are children interested in. >> just about everything that adults are interested in. for the most part. their world, around them and growing up, and learning new things, music, arts. sports, you name it all the same things we're interested in. >> how many children's books have you written. >> i have written well, just now, about to release the 17th children's book. that i actually co-write, with my mother. believe believe it or not. >> what is it like working with your mother as a coauthor. >> it is a great pleasure and we weren't sure it would be a pleasure to begin begin with, we are opinionated ladies and we thought, mother, daughter working together, it could be tricky but happily played to each other's strengths and have a grea

. >> children's author emma walton hamilton, what is the key to writing a children's book? >> gosh, i would say respecting children as readers and not talking down to them. if any thing it is basically about trusting their judgment and their intelligence and hopefully speaking to what interests them and what they're passionate about. >> water children and interested in? >> well, just about everything adults are for the most part, their world around them among growing up, learning new things, music, arts, sports -- you name it, all the same things we're interested in. >> , have you written? >> i have written to us now about to release the 70 the children's book that i actually cowrite with my mother. >> what is it like working with your mother as a co-author? >> is a great pleasure. we weren't sure it would be a pleasure, we were both bossy and opinionated and we thought mother daughter working together was tricky but happily we play to each other's strengths and have a great time working together and it turned out very well. >> in your mother is julie andrews, but part of t

she did a book by edited on the life of emma goldman which is utterly fabulous and the work here drawsply on the lives of a jockey or a house worker or a baby nurse or farmers, stonecutters and so forth, that she really touches something that even graphic novelist's work basically fiction novelist in pictures, rarely manage to do and she does it from the makings of people's lives. but also very much like being psychologically in tune with exactly what studs had in mind. i sure do hope that the book is successful enough for us to do some more studs terkel's comics because i think i would aspire to do that almost more than anything i can think of as a comics editor. >> i just want to make this point. there is a guy who is one of my favorite writers and to influence me and to anticipated studs terkel. he is a guy from chicago. his name is george. you know, he was from indiana, from an agricultural area. he went to perdue and then he came to chicago in the 1890's and got a job i think with the chicago record and at that time the colombian national exhibition or exposition-- was taking plac

it again if you move them are run into this on paper america spells by emma race. and as i walked to the crowd and saw virtually every human you can possibly think of i was reminded of herman melville's quote -- hour blood is as the blood of the amazon, made up of a thousand billable france all pouring into one. we are not a nation so much as a world. so there i was with the monuments in front of me as the fireworks exploded over the city that jefferson partially inspired, tens of thousands of images that i have taken all in my book here, across the 50 states, started racing through my mind. i thought of all the skylines, i thought of the president's, i thought of macy's day parade, the rose bowl parade, the small towns, the farms, where i grew up of route 66. allen did all these 76 new american citizens and as of the fireworks climaxed i realize that for me my journey to capture and to photograph democracy could never be taken as a single image. it never be accomplished in a single iconic moment. instead in my portrait of democracy would be an gigantic mosaic. if

execution seems still very paramount with emma goldman and a dream about what is going to be like when they are executed and this will be a mobilizing of other people the way that in terror now, but what happens and here i'm going to answer you can ask questions if you have any, it has to do with state terror. hasted do with state terror, the kind that his father saw up close in 1871 because of the french state passes a bunch of laws, the last of which lasted until 1992 which made anyone guilty by the biggest association with anarchists that if you loan an anarchist a pen and then he does some awful deed propaganda by the deed is what they call it, then you too can be convicted. in italy at the same time they were beating up anarchists even if they were two violence, they were torturing them in spain. ..

so we are in his little office and then our then infant baby, emma has a diaper adventure and we are choking that it's so smylie. everybody's choking up. his kids are grown and he doesn't have a baby so what is he going to think and james paltrow is is in some way. i can't remember. he says that's the beautiful thing about children. they are so unpretentious. always could go right into the -- as nelson mandela and house bill clinton who to me i still think he's a better politician than barack obama. i'm not trying to make comparisons, but what i am making the point on is with all the tools you give them, with all the frame work, with all the testing and a manipulative way what is the best way to say it? they -- it's something else they bring. >> look tony blair was very articulate. and he also had i right in the book he had an underlying religious faith which was central will was driving his purpose. it led to a kind of chaotic politics within britain because britain is so uncomfortable with the notion of religious faith and expressed publicly. and so it wasn't something he could act

may think she was transported home from the maternity ward on pink fluffy clouds supported by sarah emma carbon sarah them. [laughter] but i know it was the car that got me to wear a i'm. my grandfather jacob all work, he was born in 1877 on a farm about the size of his podium. in line city, ohio which was not a city in did not even have any line. he was one of 10 kids, grandpa was one of 10 who grew up in a one-room unpainted shacks. i have a photograph of them lined up by age staring at the photographer amazed to see someone issues. [laughter] my great-grandfather, barney, he was a woodcutter in the midwest where there are no trees. [laughter] unemployed quite a lot. also drunk and also aliterate been i've got a copy of bernie's marriage certificate with his axe right there. party is only accomplishment the side of the 10 prizes that he won on the corn shuck staffing of the poor man's roulette wheel there, the only thing that he ever accomplished in his life was a trained a pair of old nags to haul him home dead drug. he would fall at the tavern, pass out in the wagon and the horses wo

. >> thank you come hickham warner from toshi emma. a couple of things, i am struck that it lot of universities have centers are things that are funded by industry yet it is all not apparent when something is published under ivy league center for such and such and it gains a sense of legitimacy that is not revealed by who actually funded the study, sometimes and i don't know what is the best way to address that, and also you brought up something troubling with a lot of the journals he said were published by the industry themselves. is there a way to figure out what industries, does it say created in the association are something or the. cues that goes on in these is rigorous as of the ones because it should be-- you cannot interpret your data that way. >> you raise important points. their journals that specialize in publishing essentially what that u.s. questionable analysis. they are essentially run by individuals involved in trade association or consultants to big companies. they will often published articles 100 pages long. anybody

chairman dorgan, senator demint and members of the subcommittee, i emma roger cohen, president of the regional airline association. i want to express our deepest sympathies for the lives of the passengers and crew of flight 3407 that were lost and for the families affected by the crash. we deeply share in their grief. and i also want to express today not only for our member airlines but for a 60,000 highly trained professionals, our total unwavering commitment to safety. as we work toward insuring this -- let's make sure this post accident process does not have to be repeated. we will take whatever steps are necessary so that our flight crews and our aircraft are as safe as humanly possible. the safety of our nation's guys is a shared responsibility. at monday's faa the summit, five of regional airline ceo's and other senior evaders, five of the ceos joined with federal agencies, major airlines and union representatives to candidly explore all of the issues making headlines over these past few months. regional airlines have but one objective -- and that is to prevent any future accide

i am loath to emma. i had no use for hillary clinton. and i think it goes back to being a kid raised in the atlanta suburbs looking at the '60s radicals and looking at the world from my parents died in. of course, 10 years later i read about this in the book -- i'm embarrassed by some of the things i said about bill clinton that my goal and i think i have gone there in 46 now as opposed to being 30 when i started campaigning to understand everybody has something to bring to the table and understanding while they couldn't understand bill clinton and they couldn't stand us anymore he hit it is, he thought those young right-wingers are from another planet, trying to undo all the great things that we achieved in the 1960's and beyond. we now look at each other and i really like hillary clinton and so much because we have taken this and she too is not the same hillary clinton that came to washington in 1993. we understand that we paint each other's heads but we balanced the budget. we reformed welfare. we paid down the debt. we saved medicare