we'll talk about it first, fantasyland, the timing of this book is exquisite. i'm assuming it's not entirely accidental. - it is entirely accidental. - it is entirely accidental. - it is entirely accidental. i started thinking about this book many years ago. really decided that it was a book i was going to write as my next book in 2013, started writing in 2014, still no donald trump on the horizon. - no one had talked about fake news? - no one had talked about fake new or post truth or any of that. - alternative facts? - alternative facts was not yet a phrase. and then, really as i was finishing the draft, i put him in the book. i don't think he, donald trump that is, would have appeared in this book had he not run for president. - and this book would have appeared without donald trump. - this book indeed would have appeared without donald trump, and as i say, donald trump being nominated and elected president became the poster boy for my argument about 500 years of american history. - but, inevitably kurt, you know that people will say well, this is a trump bo

we'll talk about when rudy geel annie thinks it may get wrapped up and why he may be living in fantasyland. we're set up and ready to go on this friday morning. i want to start with garrett hake because students are heading to the white house then the capitol as part of this walkout trying to hold a moment of silence, trying to keep this issue in the spotlight. >> reporter: yeah, hallie, that's right. i'm keeping a distance right now because we expect that moment of silence to begin any moment. it will be several moments of silence, in fact, 19 minutes of silence marking the 19 years since the columbine shooting that put the idea of a school shooting into the national consciousness in the first place. as you mentioned, most of these students, if not all of them, weren't even born when this happens. so it's a striking moment here that this has been an issue for these students that has existed for their entire lives. and they're out here today trying to make sure that this is not a problem for students in the future. this is a student-led effort here today. i think it's striking both in a po

it was like walking through another door into some fantasyland that you've never ever had ever dreamed about. i couldn't believe it when i walked through the sally port, first of all, heard all of the yelling and screaming and pure pandemonium. i was shocked when i walked through, but i was even more shocked when this tall, lanky young man whose eyes i couldn't see because the brim of his cap was down over his nose, but he was yelling and screaming at me to drop my bag, pick it up, do this. of course he told me my three answers, yes, sir, no, sir, no excuse, sir. gave me instructions to post to the man with the red sash. and i did that. somehow got through the first day. walked in to -- in the old barracks, met my new classmates, new roommates. we said hello and we crashed. and that was about what our day was all about, so. >> and after that, how was your summer? >> it was pandemonium and all hell and, frankly, i didn't much care for it. i don't think anybody did in those days. >> sure. >> the things i remember most probably are uniform changes. just after dinner they would get us out