please welcome kenneth goldsmith. [ cheers and applause ] >> stephen: thank you for comig on. >> soto be here. tephen: later we'll play some dixieland jazz or churn some fresh butter milk ice cream or recite some poetry. we could do that now. >> we can do it together. stephen: what have you got? what do you want to start with? >> i don't know. how about old susannah. >> stephen: i had myself a dream the other night when everything was still. i dreamed i saw my girl coming around the hill. buckwheat cake was in her mouth and a tear in her eyes. i said i come from dixieland. susannah, don't you cry. [ cheers and applause ] >> you are the poet laureate. stephen: of the museum of modern art. you have ten books of poetry. you teach writing at the university of pennsylvania. you've got a new book called american death and disaster. did you write this? >> absolutely not. i never write any of my books. >> stephen: you didn't actually write this. you collected it? >> i transcribed it. stephen: because this book itself is actually transcriptions of real-time reporting of deaths and disasters

. >> it is part of the university of london was founded long ago by some actable goldsmith that we haven't done any of the precious metal for quite some time. we are good at art and writing and web design. we do that have the time and the other half the time i am at home or sitting at a cafe. i'm actually rather bad working at home. other folks are getting on with their lives and their business and then i can concentrate. >> unapologetic coming out in paperback later this year. the subtitle why despite everything christianity can still make surprising emotional sense. will you be touring the u.s. with this book? >> it depends whether it counts as a tour. i will be doing what i'm invited to do and i hope to get to quite a few places that will have to be very pact. >> do you know where you will be? >> no except so four new york, texas and boston are quite likely. >> we have been talking with francis spufford author of unapologetic, read plenty and several other books. thank you for spending a little time with us here on booktv. >> you are welcome. >> coming up next book tv interviewed mary w

prado, goldsmith score, 3-0 at that point. 3-1 the final. diamondbacks win game three of this series. >> it happens. that's the way it goes sometimes. they made a good relay. a good throw to the plate. >> there's days you have a moment that you help win games and then occasionally you're in the middle of helping lose a game and that's how i felt today. >>> the a's looking to avoid a sweep at the hands of the angels. aaron sogard helping the cause, his second home run of the year, a two-run shot, it's 2-0 athletics in the third. bottom seven. it is sixth-0 a's. plenty for cln, especially getting help like this. pujols the rocket. chris young going up and bringing one back. that kind of day for the angels. and a little tomfoolery between a couple of veterans. in the ninth, colon finishing what he starts, getting josh hamilton to fly out. third shutout of the season for the 40-year-old colon. he allowed just four hits in the a 6-0 victory. >>> final round of the 142nd open championship. tiger two off the pace to start play. for par on 1. a harb

tyty attorney jan goldsmith. > the mayor is not permitted to meet with women alone in city etcilities. that was agreed to with his lawyer. wyereporter: filner, a democrat, has lost his party's support. local, national, and state democratic leaders have all hised for his resignation, and, anthony, a poll shows 70% of san diegans want filner to go. >> mason: also refusing to quit singnthony weiner who is running eor mayor of new york city. this week, weiner admitted he continued to text sexually explicit photos of himself to en an even after he resigned from congress two years ago. and he revealed as many as 10 women were involved. campaign appearance today, thener said the voters will ultimately decide if he should run the city. run bob schieffer is cbs news chief washington correspondent and the anchor of "face the nation." bob, what do you make of these candidates and their refusal to quit? >> reporter: well, i think the brokm is so broken now that these are the kinds of people that are running for office a lot of the time now. serious people don't want to leol with it. in san diego,

. >> carol goldsmith and michael middleton met while working for a british airline.y married in 1980. the oldest of three children, kate was born in 1982. >> i heard she was as normal as normal can be. she came from a normal upbringing like you or i. >> just normal working class family. >> kate was baptized at this church. she was a brownie in the local scout group and loved being in school plays. such an ordinary childhood for a woman in line to one day be queen. >> i think they were a family that always did things together. they enjoyed nice holidays, they drove nice cars, but it wasn't always the case. they came from pretty modest upbringing, pretty modest start in life. it was really because of carol's desire to improve their position and to build that family business. >> they sold supplies for children's parties and soon spun it into an online internet empire worth millions. >> it was carol who saw that this business really had legs to grow. and of course when that happened and there was money in the bank, they decided to invest in their children's education. >>

period of time where james comey went along with bush's message data collection under a new theory, goldsmith'sheory was that it was pegged to the authorization to use military force, and when they use that authorization to use military force, of course, to repeal parts of the fisa, none of the congress would have understood that when they voted in october 2001 to authorize the united states to go to war in afghanistan, that they were also repealing a part of solid foreign intelligence service act la. >> james comey also discussed his position on whistleblowing. also atleblowers are critical element of a functioning democracy. folks have to feel free to raise their concerns, and if they are not addressed up the chain of command, to take it to an appropriate place. >> it is interesting, we are talking about this as edward snowden is, we believe, in the russia applying for political asylum. democratic senators congratulating comey for his questioning of the wireless -- warrantless wiretapping. and yet, you do not see anything like their same response when it comes to question what president obama

. >> carol goldsmith and michael middleton met while working for british airlines.ied in 1980. the oldest of three children, kate was born in 1982. what i heard from other folks is she was as normal as normal could be. she came from a normal upbringing. >> just a normal working class family. they're both workers, the parents, carol and mike, so just a normal working class family. >> kate was baptized at this church. she was a brownie in the local scout group and loved being in school plays. such a normal ordinary childhood for a woman in line to one day be queen. >> i think they were a family that always did things together. they enjoyed nice holidays. they drove nice cars. but it wasn't always the case. they came from pretty modest upbringing, a modest start in life. and it was really because of carol's desire to improve their position and to build that family business. >> they sold supplies for children's parties and soon spun it into an online internet empire worth millions. >> it was carol who saw that this business really had legs to grow. and of course, when t

. >> carol goldsmith and michael middleton met while working for a british airline.rried in 1980. the oldest of three children, kate was born in 1982. >> what i've heard from other folks is that she was as normal as normal could be. she came from a normal upbringing. >> just a normal working class family. i mean, they both work, because the parents, carol and mike, and all the family are. so just a normal working class family. >> kate was baptized at this church. she was a brownie in the local scout group and loved being in school plays. such a normal, ordinary childhood for a woman in line to one day be queen. >> i think they were a family that always did things together. they enjoyed nice holidays. they drove nice cars. but it wasn't always the case. they came from pretty modest upbringing, pretty modest start in life. and it was really because of carol's desire to improve their position and to build that family business. >> they sold supplies for children's parties and soon spun it into an online internet empire worth millions. >> it was carol who saw that this bu

have and there is opportunities and a lot of people don't see the day-to-day life and the mayor goldsmith can testify to that but hell does live. i took about that in the book and received some criticism but i am okay with that. i think eight is a good part ilves and it's important to see how that plays out. so we talk about those things and it comes from the perspective of my experience which is in st. petersburg but also from the perspective of the major cause he is the leader of the city and needs to identify the path to take. so i talk a lot about the job of the major and the job in my mind is three things. first you run the business of the city, the organization most cities have hundreds of millions of dollars sometimes billions of dollars in the budget and lots of different apartments. our city has 34 departments doing everything with police and fire and parks and water, sewer, sanitation and lots of other things, traffic and lots of other things. i noticed i wasn't getting any reports i got the crime statistics and the rainfall levels and let me get some reports after three months

. >> let's ask him, joined by john goldsmith, who says we're in the beginning of the end for the companyd donald from yakman asset management. saying it's too early to make any calls. john, if you think it's the beginning of the end, why are you still a shareholder? >> it's a great question. we're a fundamental bottom-up asset manager. we actually run one fund in particular, and the fund basically works off price momentum. we started or initiate our position back in september, so after the stock had a nice little pop. but obviously, we're re-evaluating the position now. we sold the bulk back in september 2010, at over $46 a share. i mean, the right -- >> john, john, while that's interesting, why now do you have a position in the company if you think it's the beginning of the end? >> right. this is -- like i said, it's not necessarily going to happen overnight, and with regards to the other viewer that you have, or the other speaker you have on, this isn't going to be something that will happen within the next two weeks. i think the issue right now, more than anything else, is as long as