hugh hewitt is the host of the hugh hewitt show on the salem radio network. great to be here in person with you in d.c. i'm going to let you play armchair psychiatrist. donald trump won the election, the electoral college certified him. why does he seem, sam, to be so bothered by this popular vote number? >> it's a great question. i think newt is right there. he won by the rules that you play the game and he's president and there's no way to take that away. if you are going to say it matters it's only to the extent that he can claim a mandate which is sort of this symbolic thing because if you win you'll pursue your agenda regardless. why does it bother him? >> the election denieser don't bother him. the election deniers are on every cable show bringing up this irrelevant fact she did win by a lot in the popular vote. he's concerned about a.p. test takers. every the popular vote comes up someone gets a 2 or 1 on the test because they think it matters. he responds to the news. when we going to stop talking at it? it's rutherford b. hayes. >> it's rutherford b.

, on the "hugh hewitt show." senator sessions reported to turn over 100 documents, more than attorney general loretta lynch produced. here's the problem though. they say dianne feinstein puts it this way. the key problem is he left out key documents even amid 150,000 pages of material. they cite, for example, the alabama senator had not submitted copies of speeches he delivered on behalf of trump during the campaign as well as public remarks dating back to 2003. he also did not include materials from when his judgeship was deraed concerning remarks about racism and african-americans. but key pieces of information were not in that. what do you make of it? >> i think some democrats will oppose senator sessions regardless of what he turns over. i'm not sure dianne feinstein is one of them. she's the ranking democrat on that committee. it's not unprecedented for a new president not to get their pick for attorney general. judge kimba woods was turned down. but senator sessions is probably the most qualified person in m

hugh hewitt, big thanks to you.hank you, both. >>> any minute now, president obama will be visiting the herl harbor memorial with japan's prime minister, an historic visit. we'll go there live coming up after the break. >>> something we've been talking about a lot over the past few days, hugh just mentioned this as well, the israeli settlements. they were the subject of that controversial u.n. resolution friday. what exactly are they? if so, mr. harris, we have your fingerprints on the safe. a photo of you opening the safe. a post using the hashtag "#justrobbedthesafe" so, what are we supposed to think? switching to geico could save you a bunch of money on car insurance. excellent point. case dismissed. geico. because saving fifteen percent or more on car insurance woo! because saving fifteen percent or more on car insurance is always a great answer. [chains dragging] [eerie music playing] [crickets chirping] [owl hoots] announcer: if you don't fix them, sparks from dragging tow chains can cause a wildfire. and that

. >> hugh hewitt has been a frequent contributor along the way in the campaign season. your take away? >> i heard andrea say melancholy. you began the commends by saying you thought battle fatigue. i think the president is exhausted and i think his first response to the question about syria and was a meandering away from it. he said the world will not be fooled, but i go back to something the admiral said yesterday as the running mate is. the biggest mistake of his presidency is the rhett line. when he threatens the response just talked about, you have to wonder why would the russians be afraid? he threatened enormous consequences if assad uses chemical weapons. aleppo is a grave yard. i fault the president and he honored the military three times. i salute him for that. i think presidents get appreciative of the military towards the end of their time in office as they are throughout. he was asked directly did the russian hack affect the election out come? he did not answer. i think that's an enormous whiff on his part, a delegitimization. i wish he answered it different

also on hugh hewitt's bookshelf is america alone. author mark stein emphasizes america self-reliance over government dependence. the radio talkshow host recommends to british authors, the history of english-speaking peoples by winston churchill, and historian paul johnson comprehensive history of the jewish faith. finally hugh hewitt has bonhoeffer about to the world were to spy. and mark levin's liberty amendments which explains 11 ways to restore the american republic to the framers vision. the full list of book recommendations is available online. >> book tv system with longtime white house employees stuart stevens. a former chandelier and window cleaner at the white house for seven presidents wrote about his experiences in his memoir, the white house chandeliers. >> outage you you get to the white house?ul >> when he first got back i was a military police so i went to number 14 precinct and talk to sergeant about being a police.rt and i had to take a test and they set i passed the test on they were not hiring any blacks. so that

. >> our hugh hewitt and katy tur right here and robert costa right here of course, wrote a lot of stories. welcome to all of you, happy holidays. we'll show these "meet the press" interviews by chunks. i want to begin with domestic policies. we'll begin with the issue that lies on our country for decades. >> abortion. >> to me, i have compensations, rape, incest if the mother is going to die and ronald reagan had the same exceptions. i would say rape and incest. >> i said actually if the mother is close to death. i am talking about death. >> because then you sort of saying -- >> well, that's the constitutional right between the mother and the unborn child, what's the constitutional right? >> my statement of that happens to be if the mother will die and you are going to know that and the problem with the life, what does life mean? you have a cold and you are going to end up -- >> you want to get rid of birther -- >> what they are doing? having a baby? >> you believe they are trying to do that and they are coming here? >> when we have some very good people, we have a lot of really good peop

flores, former deputy communications director for the rnc and conservative radio talk show host, hugh hewitt. i appreciate you carving out some time, thanks to both of you. john bolton, a guy whose name was tossed about for secretary of state and now a candidate for deputy secretary of state was on fox business news this morning and here's what he says he's been hearing on the hill. take a listen. >> let me say, i've spoken to a number of republican senators, plural, in the past two days who have actually looked at the intelligence and they do believe that it was the russian government that did it. now, it's not clear and in fact you can probably say with some confidence it didn't affect the election. >> hugh, it's starting to seem as if the president-elect is about the only person in washington who thinks that russia may not have been involved in this. >> well, i don't read trump that way, craig. the president-elect, i think, is voicing a great deal of chagrin at the ongoing media narrative. i believe it was russia, but i also know that ben rhodes, the national security advisor has a histor

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hugh hewitt, host on the salem radio network. joy reid, host of "a.m. joy" on msnbc. katy tur, our chief trump correspondent throughout the campaign at nbc news. and robert costa who broke a lot of stories on donald trump for the "washington post". u welcome to you, and welcome to you. happy holidays. we'll show the "meet the press" interviews in three chunks, and one by one discuss each area. i want to begin with domestic policy covering areas from immigration to health care to companies that leave the united states. and we'll begin with the issue that has divided this country for decades -- abortion. should some form of abortion always be legal? >> well, to me, i have exceptions -- rape, incest, if the mother is going to die. and ronald reagan had those same exceptions, and many republicans have those exceptions. i say rape -- >> you said life of the mother. what about health of the mother? >> i said actually if the mother's close to death. and i'm talking about death. you know, then you sort of say like, well, maybe she's not feeling so well -- >> what is the line,

hugh hewitt, katie turr, chief trump correspondent throughout the campaign at nbc news, and robert costa, broke a lot of stories on trump for "the washington post." welcome to all of you. welcome to all of you. happy holidays. we well show these "meet the press" interviews in three chunks. then one by one, discuss each area. i want to begin with domestic policy covering areas from immigration, health care, companies that lead the united states. and we'll begin with the issue that has divided the country for decades. abortion. >> should some form of abortion -- >> to me i have exceptions, rape, incest, if the mother is going to die, and ronald reagan had the same exceptions and many republicans have the same exceptions. but i say, rape -- >> life of the mother? health of the mother? >> i said actually if the mother is close to death. talking about death. then you sort of say like, well -- >> what is the constitutional right between -- between the mother and the unborn child? constitutional rights matter. >> my statement on that happens to be if the mother will die. and you know that. and

hugh hewitt. >>> when we return, let me finish with trump watch for this tuesday night. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. my business was built with passion... but i keep it growing by making every dollar count. that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on all of my purchasing. and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business... which adds fuel to my bottom line. what's in your wallet? >>> trump watch. tuesday, december 13th, 2016. i continue to hunt for the pony in that pile of stuff on the barn floor. it's what ronald reagan would say about the boy christmas morning, the optimistic one. here's what could happen with donald trump in the white house and rex tillerson as secretary of state, could find pour way out of the horror in syria, the global danger of isis, could meet the need for strong unifying leadership among sunni ar arabs, the desire for the kurds for a coun

hugh hewitt, national security its probably the issue you care the most about as a conservative.ld trump's foreign policy doctrine at this point? >> i know he is the most unpredictable and interesting interview in the world. if you just watch his interviews you can't piece together a foreign policy. but we were talking in the green room, and i believe it to be true. there is a nixonian element, the good nixon, the deal maker, the unpredictable, the willing to go to china when he had spent his entire life campaigning against mao. i think there is a way to understand the russia play as being a repurposing of the least strong among the russian/china adversaries as nixon went at that time to china. i think he is going to avail himself of dr. kissinger as he has. a friend of mine says tillerson is wonderful. i think general mattis is the great geostrategic thinker. i think he has a great team and i think he is going to work with him. i'm an optimist. >> it's interesting that you bring up nixon. i think nixon is a fascinating parallel to trump because of what he said, eye delogically n

kellyanne conway told the radio host hugh hewitt today she had, quote, politely declined an offer topress secretary. a number were seen coming and going at trump tower, including carly fiorina being considered for director of national intelligence. and reminder, the elector's vote december 19. that's our program. "hardball" with chris matthews begins now. >>> trump versus the cia. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. i'm not an adviser to president-elect donald trump. if i were, i would look him in the eye right now and tell him how wrong he is on this question of who to trust. donald trump is denying that russia intervened in the presidential campaign. he's attacking the cia for discovering the intervention. he's thinking of naming john bolton to the state department. how can he do such things? he ran against iraq where he said it was stupid,

she made the comments in separate interviews with conservative radio host hugh hewitt and the "new yorkimes." conway says she might work outside the white house helping to steer a network of political organizations supporting trump and his priorities. >>> 4:42. a christmas miracle for a missing bay area cat and her owner. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, trouble on their streets - that they put up a fence. kpix five's kiet do shows us their plea to >>> residents of one san jose neighborhood were so tired of burglaries, graffiti and other trouble on their streets, that they put up a fence. kiet do shows us their plea to the city to keep this fence. >> reporter: at the end of rosecrest terrace in san jose is 100-foot-long, 7-foot-high example of citizens rising up. >> we looked at the city to make sure we're in coding. >> reporter: neighbors paid for and built the fence on their own after suffering for years from escalating crime coming in from dana avenue, a busy street separating the neighborhood from lincoln high school. there's no shortage of images of crooks burglarizing homes, tagging properties, or

. >> the next day, hugh hewitt assumed we were not to take mr. trump literally. >> i know what you meant. you meant he created the vacuum, he lost the peace. >> no, i meant he's the founder of isis. >> in that case, we were supposed to take him literally. what many have dubbed the post truth election are we getting a look at a post truth presidency? trump's first campaign manager argued at a campaign post more tec tem this week that the words don't matter. >> this is the problem with the media. you guys took everything donald trump said so literally and the problem with that is the american people didn't. >> though trump promised in april to keep carrier jobs in the u.s. >> we're not going let carrier leave. >> he actually said this week, while announcing half those carrier jobs will stay he did not expect to be taken literally. >> i said carrier will never lea leave, but that was a euphemism talking about carrier-like companies from here on in. >> the idea trump is not fully accountable for his words became a campaign -- >> voters take donald tr

the white house chief of staff, speaking to radio host hugh hewitt. any things have to change with daily traditions in media. it is sort of monday and boring episodes. [indiscernible conversations] >> a look at the lobby this afternoon. president-elect donald trump and mike pence, the vice president-elect meeting with heads of 10 companies from a number of leaders including sheryl sandberg from facebook. praised aent-elect group of top tech industry leaders and urged them to call him whenever necessary. "i want to keep you going with the incredible innovation. there's nobody like you in the world." the president-elect said during the meeting with the members. saying "anything we can do to help this oh along, we will be there for you. you can, i people. you can call me. it doesn't make any difference. we have no formal chain of command around here." he said that tech leaders were an amazing group of people. and it is possible he will hear more from some of those tech leaders this afternoon in the lobby of trump tower. [indiscernible conversations] tabl

host of the hugh hewitt show. >> donald trump this morning didn't seem too happy with president obama. now he seem to be on the same page. at least as close as they're ever going to come. so fill in the blanks. what was resolved in this phone call? >> i think you're right. that seemed the set donald trump off. not one day, not two days but three days in a row. that he could have won. donald trump clearly took exception to that. i think the remarks at pearl harbor, not mentioning donald trump by name but seeming to take a little subtle dig at him when he was throughout at the memorial with japanese prime minister shinzo abe. i don't think that went unnoticed by president-elect trump. so the timing is interesting. 9:07 of the morning is when donald trump delivered the third tweet that the issue with the transition, even a week ago. he said that he was being quite graceful. he picked up the phone to call donald trump in what the white house tells us was a very positive call. pointing out that the two will be talking more in the coming weeks. they committed to more conversations between n

an interview with radio host hugh hewitt reince priebus said quote i think it's time to revisit a lotof these things that have been done in the white house and i can assure you that change is going to happen. ratings have been going on for decades as a way for the administration to tell the press was going on in the oval office and they turn around and tell us but with trump his twitter feed do we still really need it? juan williams is here fox fox's political autzen cohost of the "fox news" channel. what is your biggest fear of no longer having daily white house press releases? >> i think the biggest fear is that they are going to change things up in such a way as to play, to control the message and it's not that they couldn't control the message before. i was a white house correspondent for the "washington post" way back before you were born in the reagan years and even then we worried about how they controlled how they set the present schedule, when he spoke and when he gave press conferences with what you are seeing already with president-elect trump is he doesn't hold a press con

. >> lets go to hugh hewitt. jonathan is pointing out, it is definitely not keeping with u.s.y after the united nation to not veto something like that. senator tom cotton comments here is a very popular republican line, and again, it is not true. barack obama and benjamin netanyahu don't like each other, the relationships between the u.s. and israel is not weaken. >> i have to disadprgree with y. i believe this is -- >> by what measure? >> by not vetoing this which would have been vetoed by a any -- >> this makes him the most anti-israel president in years? >> if i can finish? >> you said he has been. what made him the most anti-israel president? >> a, his refusal to listen to benjamin netanyahu of the eye an deal is signed. i agree with senator schumer and it is not just tom cotton. chuck schumer, i would like those 25 democrats on the ballot and 2018 to come out and defend and of our allies today. >> senator, let me ask you this, samantha powell, the un ambassador really outlined where the united states supports israel and of the security council does not tend to be fair tow

here is what the white house press secretary of state told hugh hewitt. >> i think the thing you seeesn't look to the past and say i've got to conform to these precedents. he figures out what's the best way. so maybe we do, you know, a series of press conferences, but maybe we do some town hall, facebook town halls. maybe we go out and solicit input from twitter. i don't, the answer is, we're looking at a lot of things. >> they're looking at a lot of things. a lot of new and different ways for the president to circumvent the news media and speak directly to the people he's trying to reach, which is not all of the americapeople. it is that group of trump supporters. it is obviously time for the news media to look at a lot of things it has done in the past that will not work when covering the trump presidency, and why jay rosen says that the model of political journalism is broken and outdated. today he wrote, a man in power untroubled by contradictions and comfortable in the confusion he creates cannot be held accountable by normal means. among the habits the news media will have to c

incoming white house press secretary sean spicer, telling radio show host hugh hewitt this morning it will probably happen after mr. trump is sworn in as 45th president of the united states. as the transition heads into the holiday weekend, two key cabinet posts still remain unfilled. that meaning heads of department of agriculture and veterans fairs. candidates for the agriculture position continue to be interviewed yesterday, a day which culminated with the announcement that sprint would move 5,000 jobs back into the u.s. while the start-up, oneweb said it would add anotherthousand jobs. they are associated with the softbank ceo, mashio, san, wrapped into his previous pledge of 50,000 jobs. spicer says of the pledge, quoting, i think you will see more and more of this. i think this is just the tip of e iceberg. trish, back to you. trish: we'll ask sean about that. president obama seems to try to undermine president-elect trump even before in office. pollster frank luntz summed itp to me this way. >> obama seems to be doing, trying to figure out the right language so i don't get fine

hugh hewitt and nbc political analyst from "the washington post." also an nbc political analyst and molly ball from the atlantic. well, molly, let's see. i heard donald trump won't even make it through the first year of the presidency. donald trump will get impeached. he will quit. 16 years later we may look at him and he is still president. the defier of expectations is the marker. >> it's also how people just haven't learned to stop underestimating him. it's amazing that the predict n predictions will be made when he has shown they are wrong. nobody likes reciting history better than him. he loves to say they said i was not going to run. you know, it's our job to be skeptical and a lot of skepticism was warranted after he had publicity flirtations in the past and broken a lot of rules of politics in a way that i think we should listen to and reexample whether those were rules in the first place. whether any of this so-called truisms were real or our assumptions were wrong. >> they said he has a year for what the public wants to hear better than wa

>> no, i find the -- this troubling because reince priebus, i think he told hugh hewitt that he consideredly briefing to be sort of mundane. it doesn't he thinks really what we should be doing in the white house is the president should have occasions that are news making where news is broken. no, but i think that what we just heard from josh earnest at the top of this segment about accountability, about a daily accounting of what the president's doing, what he's saying, keeping promises, not keeping promises, i think it may be tedious if you're watching c-span and the like, but occasionally you get real news out of there. jon: let's play more of what josh earnest had to say, then i'll get rich's reaction. he was asked about reince priebus' is thes that the daily press briefing might go away. here's josh earnest again. >> the white house press corps has worked among yourselves to organize the seating arrangements in this room, and certainly would recommend to the incoming administration that they collect and familiarize themselves with some basic facts as they consider what sort of policies

founder of isis, plenty of people, including somebody who is our colleague here at msnbc off and on, hugh hewitt. here is an excerpt of a member of the conservative media here hugh hue w hugh. listen to this. >> he is the founder of isis. he is founder of isis, okay? he's the founder! >> so, ruth, that is it! >> i need to collect myself here. >> by the way, he is three days later, he said what are you talking about? i never meant it that way. >> that is why i actually love this carrier exchange because it was this moment where donald trump's first instinct was to say, i never said that! and then he was confronted with the tape of donald trump saying that. his second instinct was to say i said it but it was a euphemism. look it up, mr. president-elect. not a euphemism kind of just wasn't really being serious. now he has managed to do it. i guess he can tell us that no harm there. but it is going to be a constant, constant challenge for us in the news media. we are used to -- we have had presidents before who said things that aren't exactly true. ronald reagan was famous for telling stories that m

. >> next day, hugh hewitt assumed we were not to take mr. trump literally. >> i know what you meant. you meant he created the >> no. i meant he's the founder of isis. >> in that case, we were supposed to take him literally. the question is, after what many have dubbed the post-truth election, are we getting a look at a post-truth presidency? trump's first campaign manager argued at a campaign postmortem this week that his words don't and those trump promised in april to keep carrier jobs in the u.s. -- >> we're not going to let carrier leave. >> he actually said this week, while announcing that half those carrier jobs will stay, that he did not except to be taken literally. >> i said, carrier will never leave. but that was a you've mix. >> the idea he is not fully accountable for his words became a campaign trope. >> the voters take donald trump seriously as a candidate. >> as trump shifts from campaigning to governing his words will have legal, diplomatic, political and national security implications. as past presidents have quickly discove

hugh hewitt, let me start with you. we've talked about this. the first major decision president donald trump will have to face when he is sworn in on january 20, either abide by these sanctions put in by president obama or remove them. what should he do? >> i approve of this measure myself. in june of last year or june of this year, the harassment of our diplomats, it's been well known and president obama at that point decided not to take action against russia. a lot of the intelligence professionals that i follow and respect, like john schindler, says this is a very solid move. i agree with speaker ryan, it's long overdue. what donald trump does, though, is not really the frame i'm looking at, steve. we have a russian reset button which has collapsed. we have president obama who was mocking mt romney four years ago and about their agencies calling and mtd their foreign policy back. we have to judge this on our own merits, and let president-elect trump, when he gets all his advisers around him, decide to respond to whatever the situation is the

secretary, and kellyanne conway, of course, the campaign manager of the trump campaign, she told hugh hewitt in a radio interview she's politely declined that role as press secretary. conway, of course, someone who has the ear of president-elect trump. obviously one of his most high-profile surrogates. looks as though she won't be in that role as press secretary once trump is inaugurated here in the next couple weeks. wolf? >> ryan, who else is the president-elect meeting with today? >> reporter: it's a busy day here at trump tower. already seen carly fiorina come through. a former presidential candidate who battled with donald trump during the campaign was here. also expected today, west virginia senator joe manchin, a democrat, of course. once thought of as someone trump might tap for a cabinet post saying he's not interested in a job with the trump team and cathy mcmorris rodgers, powerful republican congresswoman from washington a potential interior secretary. also rick perry, the former governor of texas. he potentially could be tapped the next energy secretary and of course, wolf, you

. >>> joining me now is radio talk show host, hugh hewitt, who held many positions in the reagan white house, including assistant white house counsel. hugh, great to have you with us. first, your take on trump's statement? how are you reading it? obviously, it's been divided in these two parts. the first part saying, it's time to move on. the second part saying, hi will sit down and take some briefings from the intelligence officials in this country about thi matter. >> i view it as a very prudent rejection by the president-elect of the media's narrative that has built all day that somehow donald trump has to respond to everything our president does. we have one president at a time. that's been the popular refrain and i think it's correct. he is going to get briefed in. i think he wants to talk to general mattis, general kelly, the incoming head of homeland security. he wants to talk to mike pompeo. he hasn't even named his director of national intelligence yet. so when i heard that statement and heard you read it to the audience, i thought, very smart. because i don't think we'll be t

. >> next day, hugh hewitt assumed we were not to take mr.hat you meant. you meant he created the vacuum, he lost the peace. >> no. i meant he's the founder of isis. >> in that case, we were supposed to take him literally. the question is, after what many have dubbed the post-truth election, are we getting a look at a post-truth presidency? trump's first campaign manager argued at a campaign postmortem this week that his words don't matter.

. >> next day, hugh hewitt assumed we were not to take mr. trump literally. >> i know what you meant. you meant he created the vacuum, he lost the peace. >> no. i meant he's the founder of isis. >> in that case, we were supposed to take him literally. the question is, after what many have dubbed the post-truth election, are we getting a look at a post-truth presidency? trump's first campaign manager argued at a campaign postmortem this week that his words don't matter. >> this is the problem with the media, you guys took everything that donald trump said so literally and the problem with that is that the american people didn't. >> and a e though trump promised in april to keep the carrier jobs in the u.s. -- >> we won't let carrier leave. >> and he said announcing this week that after half of those jobs will be staying, he said that he did not expect him to be taking little -- literally. >> he actually said this week, while announcing that half those carrier jobs will stay, that he did not except to be taken literally. >> i said, carrier will

hugh hewitt had a particular person in mind.s play that sound bite. >> there are critics out there like my colleague, joy reid at msnbc. joy's a great professional. we don't agree with me. and she would do a tough interview. but donald trump has never seemed to be afraid of tough intervi interviews. do you see that happening with those that are not normally favorable to conservatives to engage? >> well, that would be everyone on the media except conservative media. that would come in january, as he already talked about. >> i throw it out to the table and the three of you out there on remote. to juan's point, are we in the press getting too worked up and caught up in our own stuff about press conferences and not focusing more on what he said and that is to push beyond that to do real tough reporting on this president? kurt. >> one thing we really have to face here, which is a question -- this man is not -- has no public persona prior to this other than a reality tv show. a press conference would demonstrate does he know what's go

spicer telling hugh hewitt, the radio show host this morning that will probably happen after the inauguralhe has talked to a lot of folks. he solicited some input, but i think i wouldn't expect an announcement until probably coming in upcoming is officially the president of the united states. the incoming white house chief of staff said earlier this month that the selection to replace antonin scalia could come before or after the inaugural, but now it appears that the latter is more likely. >> i guess that makes sense. thank you very much. we will watch out for this a macro which will be different because everything has been different so far with this president-elect. sean spicer come you just heard about from blake will be on with trish in the next hour on fox business. certainly stay tuned for that. the president-elect and don king downplaying his business ties. a lot of questions about conflicts of interest and the like. the media continue to assess questions. whether or not the despair we will take up after the break. only in america. with the xfinity tv app, ything with a screen is a

it's a great read and i recommend it and if you look at hugh hewitt and gary shapiro from the consumer electronics, a lot of people have read this and wrote glowing reviews. >> guest: people know by the time this comes out with vice president newt gingrich also -- we are not plugging anybody on this, but it's a great read and we appreciate your time today. again, the book tv, c-span, the watchdogs. >>> military force is one of the things the american public very often gets impatient about because they believe they have this great military that can defeat anyone, but that isn't true. it is an extraordinary military and very powerful, but they can only win in certain situations, and can only really destroy things. they can't build a new order in its place. >> journalist and professor talks about his career and the challenges facing the u.s. war on terrorism in his latest book