who fled hungary in the wake of the soviet repression of the hungarian revolution in 1956. i sat often with julius, now passed away, and heard of the way the hungarian people, inspired by our calls for freedom, stood up for their own freedom. and as brett stevens recounts in today's "wall street journal", we stood by idly. we didn't want to interfere. and the soviet tanks rolled. we cannot stand idly by, speak of iran's sovereignty, speak of her own right to choose her own leadership at a time when hundreds of thousands of iranians are risking their liberty and even for their lives to stand up for free elections and democracy. ronald reagan said, quote, there's no arsenal or no weapon, the arsenals of the world so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. all of us desire a fresh start with iran. and it seems from news reports and the extraordinary images coming from the streets of iran that millions of iranians long for a new start in their government. there is a reformist movement afoot in iran. today i'll introduce a resolution. i urge all of my col

. -- if we get calls in hungarian, we can handle those. only about 50% of the population has been substantially affected by the transition, so far. there is no question what remains for june 12 will be the better way than we will prepare so that people who have not already prepared will know what to do. >> we went to one of the stations that had not prepared. it is a public station here in washington d.c.. >> kevin harris, what happens to this television station on june 12? >> we transition at noon and go to our for digital channels. we are excited about it. it is about time. basically, we go to tv 26. we do 24/7 kids on weta-kids. we have those gorgeous pictures that public television is known for and now it is in high definition. >> why did the decision not make the job back in february? >> you have to talk to the folks on the hill that c-span talks to a lot. we were ready to make the jump to years ago. we made a lot of investment. we started two years ago to create our for digital channels. we have been broadcasting 24/7 on all of our d

translated into hungarian. even though these books of mine, 14 books, 15 books of mine translated there, and only one of them is in my native country. so every year i go there, national book week, don't misunderstand me, there's a little money in it but very little. so it barely pays my hotel bill, but still i have never expected this to happen. so my life changed. my life is change in other ways also. my writing career became to some extent successful and so forth. and so i decided to write this other election, not the history of the last 20 years, but how my beliefs and ideas and everything changed in the last 20 years, hence the title "last rites." but you see there is a much greater, deeper change there. confessional of an original center, i never write books are a bestseller. sold about 10000 copies. which is pretty good for an average book, you know. since then i have written a lot about. my name may be well-known, that "last rites" i will be glad if it sells one third of that because i have lived through

to refer calls to a translator service where they can handle 100 languages, so if we get calls in hungarian, we'll be able to handle them. >> host: congressman says half the nation has already gone digital and there haven't been any problems. >> guest: that's a good thing because the tidal wave on june 12th will be smaller, but they tended to be smaller stations and smaller communities. only about 15 percent of the population has been substantially affected by the transition so far. so there's no question that what remains for june 12th will be the bigger wave, and we're trying to prepare so that people who haven't already prepared will know what to do then. >> host: well, we went to one of the stations that hadn't prepared, it's a public station here in washington, d.c., weta. >> host: kevin harris, what happens to this station on june 12th? >> guest: june 12th we transition. june 12th at noon we go to our four digital channels. and we're excited about it. it's about time, and basically we go to tv 26 which is more adult public television programming and some kids. we do 24/7 kids on weta