it's like a chapter on the hemingway and about ernest. hemingway agreed to become a s spy. it doesn't talk about what this means in the context of his life and work. it's by any standard. they had mid-level officers. his code name they would call him crop. that was very upsetting to me and the thing to me for a couple of reasons, one was i had been and still am a lifetime fan of his writing. and the other is i had worked out the cia and what is the worst thing, what is your worst nightmare at the cia. they shared cubicles and what have you. now he's working for the bad guys. then i went looking for. i start to work for myself and i finished the museum project. there is a lot of great hemingway scholars out there that have written a lot of great books and told a lot of good stories. cut one of thescould one of thes please explain to me what this means for how should i look at ernest hemingway now. what conclusions can i draw from that fact that he signed up in 1940 and 41. there is one book that has a chapter in it that says i didn't find any secondary sources, so you go bac

there's a point at which you slip in a little to get hemingway quoting someone called hemingway music, preoccupied with the image rather than the root the reality. there's some spots in here where your slip and in some modern-day dicks. >> guest: i am, hemingway is the special peeve of mine. he reminds me a little bit of 60 minutes. that is, he wasn't really corresponded but he played one, 60 minute famously says, were not really reporters but we play one on tv. there's a running theme there. a lot of the stuff my editor maybe put in the footnotes. if you read the book, check out the footnotes. there's a lot of good stuff in there that he said get out of the book. >> editors. >> host: talking about these two guys and they were outcasts from their groups and they were ridiculed for being out of touch, but there's a phrase in here that captures what they did that very few people were able to do, they were able to ascertain a long range meaning of sudden changes, and that is, around the before anybody else what stalin was up to, churchill knew before anybody else what hitler was up to. t

there's slight dig at hemingway in the book. so, orwell also covered and fought in the spanish civil war, and as did hemingway and there's a pint where you slip in a little dig at hemingway, quoting somebody who called hemiway boozey, preoccupied with the image rather than the reality. so, there's some other spots in here, tom, where you're slipping in some modern day digs. >> guest: i am. hemingway, as you might guess, is a special peeve of mine. he reminds me of "60 minutes." he wasn't really a war correspondent but he played one. "60 minutes" famously says, we're not really reporters but we play one on tv. there's a kind of running theme there. a lot of the stuff my very good editor made me put in the footnotes. the footnote -- there's a lot of good stuff in n there that he said, get it out of the book. >> host: yeah, editors. so, talking about these two guys and they were on the -- outcast from their own groups and they were ridiculed for being out of touch. but there's a phrase in here that captures what they did that very

jerry hemingway and staff member driving it south.oth volunteered with this assignment. >> it's duffle to watch, and see what is going on down there. and knowing we'll be there and hopefully make a difference in people's lives and alleviate suffering that is going on. it makes it feel a little better. >> this is set up to feed people and haul water and emergency supplies for people. hemingways started to volunteer nine years after watching hurricane relief efforts on the news. >> the pair make their way to a staging area in louisiana before getting a specific assignment where they are needed most. >> meanwhile inside of the center city headquarters, trained volunteers in their national call center are fielding thousands of calls from houston and across the country as rescue operations continue in texas. >> this is extraordinary, it will rain through thursday, because it continues to rain more people are displaced. >> efforts are underway to help affected animals. they have mobilized their sister shelter way station transport program.

iery hemingway and mike both volunteered forever the assignment. this is the third red cross vehicle sent to texas so far from center city. it's use the to transport food and emergency supplies. >> it's dill to watch and see what is going on down there but knowing we will be there and make a difference in their lives and alleviate some of of that suffering going on it makes us feel a little bit better. >> hemingway will travel to a staging area in louisiana and wait to be deployed to a specific location. if you want to donate call 1-800-red cross or text the word harvey to 9099 9 to automatically send a $10 donation. >> and we are watching the movements of president trump in corpus christi texas, there is theent entourage to leave for their first location. president trump is there to observe the damage and destruction and maybe even get a glimpse of it as he was arriving from air force one flying over texas. president trump now on the move in the lone star state. "action news" reporter chad pradelli has arrive fire department texas and heading towa

joe trippi, ellison barber, mollie hemingway. thank you.it involving the murder of a young dnc staffer. howie: katrina pierson, former trump campaign spokes fern now with america first policies. the media going haywire over the news that robert mueller convened a grand jury. katrina: i think it's overplayed. but anything involving the president and his administration is overplayed. this has nothing to do with russia, which is what i have been saying for a long time. howie: how do you know that? katrina: there has been no evidence found. collusion is not a crime. so what are we looking for here? howie: why does russia call russia a fabricated story when his own deputy attorney general rob rosenstein decide to investigate this matter. peer report left lost the election. they claim their server was hacked and leaked to wikileaks. we have not seen the server. there is no evidence that this actually happened. but this an investigation based upon an allegation from the losing team. howie: a number of anchors and correspondents raised questions in

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mollie hemingway and jessica tarlov. just a tsunami of media criticism for denouncing violence on many side but not naming the group that carried out these attacks that drove the car into the crowd. mollie: the media are focusing on this horribly tragic story that led to the death of a woman run over by a car who appears to be a white nationalist. but you see the media try to push and hype this rally. this is a nationwide rally and they were able to gather just a couple hundred people. you give it wall-to-wall coverage and marginalize this group or other people would say they want that kind of coverage. they want to provoke conflict and maybe the media shouldn't be playing into that quite so much. howie: by making donald trump the focus of this protest he had nothing to do with, aren't some critics in the media also being divisive? jessica: i think the media does play a divisive role in what's going on in today's society. but he spent years criticizing barack obama for not saying radical islamic terrorism. we know why ba

ben shapiro, mollie hemingway and jehmu greene will talk about the president and all of that that itntails. also the president did speak today about his strategist, steve bannon. >> i like mr. bannon. he's a friend of mine. but, mr. bannon came on very late. you know that. i went through 17 senators, governors, and i won all the primaries. mr. bannon came on very much later than that. >> martha: what is the meaning in that statement today from the president? the man who helped him win the white house in part be the in connection with to go? we will get to that ahead. but we want to start tonight with another important update on a story that was dominant in recent days. and the story was that the president may have taken a brink of war with north korea. so days later kim jong un appears to have backed down. and, yet today at that news conference that you just saw it was not one question about that. trace gallagher live in our west coast newsroom tonight with the breaking details. trace? >> martha, for the time being, it appears kim jong un has backed away from launching missiles and i

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mollie hemingway and jessica tarlov. just a tsunami of media criticism for denouncing violence on many side but not naming the group that carried out these attacks that drove the car into the crowd. mollie: the media are focusing on this horribly tragic story that led to the death of a woman run over by a car who appears to be a white nationalist. but you see the media try to push and hype this rally. this is a nationwide rally and they were able to gather just a couple hundred people. you give it wall-to-wall coverage and marginalize this group or other people would say they want that kind of coverage. they want to provoke conflict and maybe the media shouldn't be playing into that quite so much. howie: by making donald trump the focus of this protest he had nothing to do with, aren't some critics in the media also being divisive? jessica: i think the media does play a divisive role in what's going on in today's society. but he spent years criticizing barack obama for not saying radical islamic terrorism. we know why ba

charlie hurt, mollie hemingway. thank you for being here. thanks for being with us.and jack keane among our guests tomorrow.is next. see you tomorrow. lou: good evening president trump has been unable to confront the nation's enemies without being attacked simultaneously by the national left wing media, deep state, and the dems. now, even some members of his own white house are under cutting it president today triple down on his threat to unleash fire and fury against north korea, saying perhaps that he had not gone far enough with his rhetoric for which he has been criticized in some quarters, he said, kim jong-un would regret any action if it takes action against guam.

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mollie hemingway and ned ryun. good to see you both.ying the blame game when something happens like what happened in charlottesville, virginia. but the "wall street journal" had a terrific editorial talking about things that led us to what happened in charlottesville. it's called the poison of identity politics. this means allocating political power, contracts, jobs, and now even salaries in the private sector based on the politics of skin color and gender rather than merit or performance. a politics fixated on indelible differences will inevitably lead to resentments that extremists can exploit in ugly ways on the right and left. ned >> we should be looking for common ground because at the end of the day we are all americans. what is frustrating me, but i'm not shocked at the total hypocrisy. we should reject white supremacists and the kkk and the alt-right, but we should also be rejecting black lives matter. david: governor mcauliffe did not focus on the violence coming from the left of the political spectrum yet he received no critic

hemingway. ( laughter ) >> slight chance and possible are completely different, or didn't they teachther-words-to-describe- things class, mr. e.b. white? >> you're really pushing it, merkin! >> really? pushing? or shoving? if there is no difference between "slight chance" and "possible" then why the hell did you change it? >> i don't know. guess i felt i was trying to help, that's all. >> damn it, wheeler. we've known each other for over 15 years. we can't let something like this come between our relationship, our friendship. ( laughter ) >> what have i become? am i a monster? have i turned into that which i most revile? oh, god, tom, i'm sorry. ( laughter ) >> don't put it all on yourself. it's my fault, too. you remember the first day after you hired me? >> yeah. you were so young. >> you pulled me aside and you said, "tom, i want you to do whatever it takes to report the weather," and i did. ui did. you gave a small town boy from tennessee his dream about the weather. ( laughter ) >> i'm through here. it's time to go. i'm resigning. i had no right. but before i go, i'm going to pr

. >> bret: mollie hemingway, a.b. stoddard, syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. she is joking of course but ten days ago anthony scaramucci was going to be and announced as the new white house communications director. ten days later, he's gone. >> what a ten days. unbelievable interview he gave where he was so vulgar and had such inappropriate things to say. this was ten days that felt intense. having said that, i think these changes we are seeing might make it true that there is no chaos now, meaning getting rid of scaramucci should help tamp things down. we need c with reince priebus' departure. he was supposed to help with the legislative agenda, best friends with paul ryan, you couldn't get a more establishment republican person. things didn't go so well. trump wants to change direction and you can hope things will go better with someone who is more to his liking. >> bret: this suggests general kelly has power, that he has some power from the president himself. >> absolutely. i think everyone was surprised. it was clear kelly was in charg charge. kelly report

joining me is mollie hemingway and mark simone.to see an attempt to pin the charge racism on anybody who is pro trump or republican. i think the media feels like they got the attention of people because that's about all you see on the news. mollie: i wouldn't say we are beginning to see this, i would say it's what we have seen from the media going back decade, and it explains trump's reaction to the attempts to paint all republicans racists. but when you call everyone a nazi or hitler it starts to lose its punch. going back to reagan and george w. bush and enmity romney it was disappointing to see myth romney play into this when he claimed there were only problems with kkk and white nationalists and people fighting them are pure of heart. that was the type of game democrat typically play. david: tens of millions of people who say this is the base of donald trump. it's racist and i didn't know the nazi party was 30 million to 40 million strong. the implications are so ridiculous, you can't take it serious. >> racist is what a libera

tomorrow on the show, chris stirewalt, mollie hemingway and dave smith. night. beholder. so meet the beholders. >> these paintings just did not appeal to me. and i don't think they appealed to my wife, either. >> i said, well, i guess the salvation army is as good as anyplace. we don't want them. >> but one man's trash... >> it just knocked my socks off. >> we have $50,000. >> within a few weeks, everybody knew about it. >> ...is another's treasure. >> did you ever consider stopping? >> there is a point we all have to stop. but no.

charlie: one exception, i have a dog named hemingway who sleeps with his legs in the air at night. always thought that was a little crazy, but now i think it is even more crazy. know all animals, but just the ones i know about. after dog if he is thinking about the universe. you don't mind me mentioning that this book is opening at number one? city --nessing the. witnessing the curiosity. first lookught at what i did, but then i thought know it's not me, there was curiosity that has been undervalued by media. people have curiosity into adulthood -- maybe not everybody, but i am privileged to be able to fan that ember. greatare a lot of very books on the list. this kind of floated to the top. it is an affirmation that the public does care about science. charlie: it is an affirmation you tell it well. g for all hehawkin is done, how many people have actually read his book? neil: hardly anybody. charlie: this is a reasonable book. neil: by the way, it is not astrophysics for dummies, it is real astrophysics. if you open the book to any page, you have to pay attention, i am treating yo

hemingway. then i picked up george orwell. he was contemporary. it feels fresh.t can take a paragraph out of many of his essays, job it into today's newspaper, and it would fit right in. i started diving into orwell. why did he feel so fresh and contemporary russian mark -- contemporary? this resonates with our own time. paralleled by another hero of mine come winston churchill. such different people in so many ways, yet they keep coming together on the question on how you preserve individual liberty? and we were agent talking about writing a book about the vietnam war. i decided after research, i cannot do it without research and interviews. onecided to do a book churchill and orwell. men only buy books on three ii --ts, world war host: how close is this book to what you set out to do? tom: this is the book i hoped to write, but it is not the book i first set out to write. i sent it out to my long-term editor, six books with him, who i really trust. he read the first draft and 70 ites -- sent me notes saying hate it. this is not the book i asked you to write. ho

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joining me to discuss is mollie hemingway and mark simone. mollie.n interesting question. will there be a communications chief? there may not just be one after anthony scaramucci. >> i think there has to be one. even though this administration has shown it's willing to do things differently from previous administrations. getting the right person will be a challenge. you need someone who understands how things work well enough to be part of the establishment and understanding that this president communicates differently. he will never change in the way he communicates. this is something his voters consider a feature, not a bug. david: still on the payroll is mr. spicer, sean. >> it was just 10 days ago he stepped down. i don't know if he's officially still on the payroll. but in retrospect people are realizing he had a challenging position and he handled it well. but he might have had enough in that six-month period. but he might be able to help figure out the transition. david: let's talk about general kelly. will he have the discipline to organize t

mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist." syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. >> having a targeted, skilled, coherent immigration policy should not be controversial. the change that deals with merit-based allocation of spots is wise. the only thing that's controversial is decreasing the number of people allowed entry into the country. there are two main problems. with our legal immigration system. not focused on skills enough and the portion that does focus on skills is poorly designed. 30% of people coming into the country have anything to do with an economic case. half of those are merit-based. 6.5% or something. having an immigration system that matches more with what canada or australia does, it's long overdue. >> bret: new green card recipients, you look at, no stats for 2016 yet. 2015, about 1,051,000 new green card recipients. you look at how many green card holders are here in the u.s., this goes back to 2014, 13,200,000. charles, big issue and won the white house thinks they can have a win on. >> long overdue.

steve hayes, mollie hemingway, mo elleithee, and charles krauthammer. good evening. steve, would you like to begin? >> the president's silence over the first two days of the controversy said more than his words earlier today. whenever you have white supremacists and neo-nazis holding hate rallies that lead to violence and eventually committing acts of domestic terrorism, you denounce them partially. you denounce them specifically and then you do it again and again and again and then you do it one more time for good measure. that's what presidential leadership would have looked like and we didn't have it. you had it for many members of the senate, republicans and democrats. tom cotton called out white supremacists specifically. said what they were preaching was an anathema to the united states. the problem for president trump beyond this missed opportunity and great moral failure is that we know what it looks like when donald trump wants to call somebody out. we know what it looks like when he wants to condemn somebody. he's done it for journalists. he's done it to hi

hemingway started to volunteer for the red cross nine years ago after watching hurricane relief effortselp. >> we have training and this is what we are ready for. >> the pair will make their way to a staging area in louisiana and then get an assignment where they are needed most. and at the headquarters trained volunteers are fielding thousands of calls from houston across the country. as rescue operations continue in texas. >> this is extraordinary and it will rain through thursday, and because it's going to continue to rain more people are going to be displaced. >> efforts are underway to help storm affected animals. saint hub's animal shelter will welcome at least 100 shelter dogs from texas to their madison knowledge campus, after the dogs and eat and rest many animals will be transferred to partners across the northeast corridor including shelters in our area, this helps to provide capacity for an nals in this storm. >> local chapters are preparing their own volunteers and planning to deploy volunteers tomorrow with emotional support. katherine scott "action news." >> abc is hostin

in washington, david catanese, mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist," and here in chicago, brunell donald and a proud chicago resident. mollie, your thoughts. what that potentially means. >> the reason why donald trump had any chance during his candidacy was a widespread republican frustration with leadership. i'm not sure if it's entirely surprising to see trump continue to embody that frustration people have. mcdonald's will be paul trump had unrealistic expectations at how much could be done in terms of repealing obamacare. that's the responsibility of men like mitch mcconnell who, for seven years, promised republican voters if you gave them a republican president that they would repeal this legislation. i think this is something a lot of people are feeling frustration with and they would like to see congress getting stuff done. >> bret: david. >> trump is mostly right on this. this and i did have a lot of time to get their act in order and they couldn't get it done mainly because they didn't think they'd be in this position. they didn't think president trump would be p

mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist." >> president trump sounded like he couldn't waitget to election day buddies got a long with gone tax reform forgets to blaming claire mccaskill. tax reform is an opportunity for republicans to get all back on the same page with the president. but i think the big question, the nutshell isn't necessarily work congresses. the president is going to have to get his republicans together. the treasury secretary said this is going to be passed by august. and it hasn't been paid for members of congress and tax-writing committee members have different ideas than the president about the rates, the corporate rates. he's got a long way to go. there are a lot of details. tax reform at something, released tax cuts something republicans should be able to unite around. >> bret: frankly, they need a w. >> they do. the economy is something that has gone well for donald trump already. it's something his treasury secretary said is his number one priority. 3%, 4%. in order to make that happen, you need to see some reform of corporate tax rates. we've not

pack your copy of hemingway, the sun also rises. the tattered american flag you picked up off the ground outside of the grave. fold over the flaps, shut it up tight, locket, heave it onto your back, carry it all home. now we would like to end with questions from the audience so that everybody can hear, there is a microphone so if you have questions or comments, please come up select from. [applause] we are not that good. surely there are questions. i have one question. when did margaret join the military? >> i believe it was late 1949 or 1950. she is better known for her declaration of conscience, in addition to joining the air force, she was the first person to challenge the american committees. her speech declaration of conscious is something everyone needs to read. >> i would like to know from each of you what stories did you grapple with the mouse that had the deepest impact on you that you struggled with the most? >> i think for me, there were two stories that were really hard for me to read. one of them is a narrative and i be