i had confided in some close friends that i i have had and explains with sexual assault. occasionally i stated that my assailant was a prominent lawyer or judge but i did not use his name. i do not recall each person i spoke to about brett's assault, and some friends have reminded me of these conversations since the publication of the washington post story on september 16, 2018. but until july 2018 i had never named mr. kavanaugh as my attacker outside of therapy. this all changed in early july 2018. i saw press reports stating that brett kavanaugh was on the short list of alyssa very qualified supreme court nominees. i thought it was my civic duty to relay the information i had about mr. kavanaugh's conduct so that those considering his nomination would know about this assault. on july 6, 2018, i had a sensein of urgency to relay the information to the senate and the president as soon as possible before a nominee was selected. i did not know how specifically to do this. i called my congressional representative and let her receptionist know that someoneci on the president'

i decided to speak out publicly to a journalist who had responded to the tip i had sent to "the washington post," and who had gained my trust. it was important to me to describe the details of the assault in my own words. since september 16, the date of "the washington post" story, i have experienced an outpouring of support from people in every state of this country. thousands and thousands of people who have had their lives dramatically altered by sexual violence have reached out to share their experience and have thanked me for coming forward. we have received tremendous support from our friends and our community. at the same time, my greatest fears have been realized, and the reality has been far worse than what i expected. my family and i have been the target of constant harassment and death threats. and i have been called the most vile and hateful names imaginable. these messages, while far fewer than the expressions of support, have been terrifying and have rocked me to my core. people have posted my personal information and that of my parents online on the internet. , this has resu

i had a very specific and happened to me. ou'll ever meet and then a few years ago, but what if a husband and i decided to start trying for a baby. i love my husband more than anything and i love babies more than anything, sol anything and i love babies more than anything, so i thought this would work. we will get our wet bits together and make a video varane. that's a fun way to do it. —— make a baby andi that's a fun way to do it. —— make a baby and i will be fun. we found out that my husband cannot have children because of my personality. if you are making a noise now, you're going to be in trouble by the end of the show. i got depression instead of a baby. it turns out depression in children ina baby. it turns out depression in children in a very similar things. all my friends about kids now. i've got a 22—month—old depression and you cannot tell me apart from a new mum friends. we're all very tired, none of us are fun at parties. st patrick's day area, though. i named my depression. i thought when life hands you lemons, a

i sat close to him when i had a shoulder and it was that point. with changing. that it was ok for me to start. in a romantic wife and i did. for. the into mainstream to tween me. with me being surgically altered i. come to want to. enjoy intimacy and that wonderful fresh air. it is beautiful. for a little bit more right. if you notice. the green is starting to turn back to brown vs me pretty soon after a few months. i think i thought about it for not too long maybe a week or two and responded to my older daughter said. she want they want me to be happy. and i knew i was going to change for the big moment came when. i was praying and the lord jesus appeared. to me as a vision in the air is so i could touch him just like i could touch anybody here and he came and reached down to me with his hands and picked me up and said you're now safe with me forever and it was at that moment that my life changed in a split second. leg of this i'm healthy. many of the people who've gone through this before me are dead. they're out there still struggling. with their identity and

the idea after i had third. when i was transitioning to mail. in louisiana and the driver's license i had a lot of other pictures from that period but one day. when i was. looking at the pictures of me back during this period it seven eight years as being female it was so discouraging that i wasted so much my life in this particular period doing all of this. just in this state that i was. i raised all of the pictures that i had with the computer and destroyed the pictures of me from that period to try to write that period of my life with god's help i went through the change and i went back to being in may. so i went through the surgery and the bad side of it was so much pain and so much discomfort and read a gratitude and surgery more and then me for. surgery that i had been in then when he took the bandages of my stomach to show me the skin. i was almost horrified at it to me it was gross but it was surgery and the paperwork that the surgeon gave me. when i had the surgery done the nation really gaming the paperwork and said ok i'm in surge cha

and i knew i had a choice. i could keep on teaching all men how to be good humans, or i could get something done for my district. and so i let the teaching go. i stopped. i stopped correcting men that said the wrong -- called women girls. i stopped it all. it was too much. it was too engrained here. but i really wasn't able to go home and tell my women friends, and the women's group, how has it been! oh, it's fine. you know? we're all the same. because it would have broken their hearts that i didn't go there to change these dudes. because i just -- it was not possible. and little by little, and younger men started getting elected. things got better. but yeah, oh, it was tough at first. >> were there parts of the institution particularly that were more difficult for women to be a part it was >> well, the gym. [ laughter ] >> men go out and golf, and you hang around with people you're comfortable with. and women were left out. they weren't part of the gang. but it was starting to change by the time i got here. it

i had a b.a. and an m.a.. betty friedan, i was the perfect one that was influenced and when my son john went to school i was going to go go to work and i said that at a speech at wesleyan university and he was in the back of the room and he stood up and said "she hasn't been seen since." i was very active in the city council and i was vice chair for a commission for elderly for a number of years and i went downtown to the political boss and i said i'd like that vacancy and he said well you wouldn't run for the board of education so it's not your turn for this and i don't know where i got the courage and i said well, i'll primary. and suddenly there were two vacancies and of course that was in the summer, in august. i got primaried in september but i won. but i won. and i was on the city council. i loved it. chairman of public safety and zoning. when an alarm went off, off we'd go. i loved it, i really did. and then for your house seat when you ran for congress, what drew you to that particular position. i was s

taken out of the man and he brought her to the man once i finally had the surgery i went with this was the wrong thing to do it was the wrong thing to do to cut off my male anatomy. command. this is now one of my bones from the flesh of my flesh she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man that is why a man leaves his father and mother earth news from nineteen to his wife and they become one flesh. the fact of the matter is that forty percent of people who are attempting suicide are people who regret ever changing genders. and. right there around four o'clock. but usually i wake up beforehand if you. read the bible and i pray and then i try to be still and and listen for his voice his guidance. my name is billy hurley. living here in polk in this house and i used to work for nasa. and let me show. all around the house a little bit. of the weather over here and. we don't have air conditioning over here and so we keep the doors and windows open for good bit throughout the year. as canny a little introverted. had a speech impediment and tried

after that, i never had a date with anyone else. : my first year at harvard business school, i stopped studying. i was good enough that i could -- by and most of my side time was at wellesley college with wendy and persuaded her to marry me before the second year. >> i think the fact that we both found each other and were completely smitten, made the decision easy. i got a job teaching swimming in quantico, virginia. he got a job at the pentagon. hank: my goal was not to go to washington. i had no previous business experience. the only time i had ever won a suit was special occasions or to go to church. the only management experience i had was at summer camp in colorado. remarkably, i worked on my first bailout in those days. ♪ contractor had run into trouble, on the verge of bankruptcy and the next and administration had gone to congress to get a loan guaranty. i do not think the government should intervene. there were eight or nine prime contractors, plenty of capacity in the industry. ,aluable parts of lockheed critical to nationa

confided in some close friends that i had had an experience with sexual assault. occasionally, i stated that my assailant was a prominent lawyer or judge that i did not use the same. -- use his name. i do not recall each person i spoke to about the assault. some present reminded me of these conversations since the publication of the washington post story. namedjuly 2018, had never mr. cavanaugh as my attacker -- as my attacker outside of therapy. in july 2019, i suppress reports stating that brett kavanaugh was on the short list of a list of very well-qualified supreme court nominees. i thought it was my civic duty to relay the information i had -aboutmr. cavanaugh - judge kavanaugh's conduct so others would know about his assault. on july 6, i had a sense of urgency to relay the information to the senate and the president as soon as possible before a nominee was selected. i did not know how specifically to do this. i called my congressional representative and let her receptionist now that someone on the president's shortlist had attacked me. i also sent a message

>> respectful. , i still had to fight hard. when reform came through and try to get the medicaid issues addressed. ton, sometimes i really had stand up and be firm about what the consequences would be. often, they didn't. go ae case, they wouldn't lot with the proposal to check drivers license lists. so, we do not do that. i did a lot of things you suggested. but, will go with it. the younger members of the committee looked at me like what do we have here? so, the caucus came back. they felt that i had told them so many things and wanted all so, when that came out to floor that there were going to check licenses and all of the things but not drivers licenses, i was the unanimous roar. he just had to know audience was at that point. they were exhausted. and then marge got together on the floor. she and all about it. we hadave mentioned interviewed barbara -- appeared and talked about what it was like for her at the time of being the only woman on the committee. she said that playing golf really helped her because she able to have

is the idea after i had third. and then when i was transitioning back to mail in louisiana that's the driver's license i had a lot of other pictures from that period but one day. when i was in my office looking at the pictures of me back during this period seventy eight years as being female it was so discouraging that i wasted so much my life in this particular period doing all of this. just in the state that i was in and i raised all of the pictures that i had with the computer and destroyed the pictures. from that period to try to were right. with god's help i went through the change back to being mayor. so i went through. so much pain and so much discomfort to grab it. more than me for. a guy in then when he turned. to share me with. to me it was growth but it was. in the paperwork to me. when i had the surgery done initially he gave me the paperwork ok. i'm sixty years old there's no reason for me after a lifetime of being in transition to go and start living dressing as a man a name. there's there's there's no

i never had the full ability to have intercourse because the. the vagina that they make is so small so any time i tried to have intercourse it was extremely painful in it wouldn't happen so these surgeries are nothing more than plastic surgery they they don't create the phalluses that they create for a female to males are really hideous looking i've had several female to male friends and you look at it and you just go oh god you paid for that it's horrible the sex change didn't solve my discomfort the doctors who are honest will say that the gender dysphoria is always there and it's because the confusion is it's not so much it starts out being about your anatomy but really what it's you don't like yourself. being free and society being i call it in my book a social pariah is not the way you want to live the isolation drives you to despair and so yeah suicide is a big big thing maybe. yesterday i don't know the first time was right before the surgery in one thousand nine hundred and the only thing that kept me from doing a quiet honest is i'm a co

in my early period there, i had two major projects. the first was an article i wrote on the education of minority students. the second was the organization of a seminar on high-risk students, which was abandoned this time, my working relationship with judge thomas was positive. i had a good deal of responsibility and independence. i thought he respected my work and he trusted my judgment. after approximately three months, he asked me to go out socially with him. and tellingd next the world about it are the two most difficult things -- experiences of my life. ofis only after a great deal agonizing consideration and sleepless nights that i am able to talk of these unpleasant matters to anyone but my close friends. i declined the invitation to go i wascially and said afraid it would jeopardize what i considered to be a good working relationship. i had a normal social life with other men outside the office. i believe then as now that having a social relationship with a person who is supervising my work would be ill advised. i was very uncom

the first time i had a conflict with hmm him d him, i hosted the ufc. and i have to talk to him? he let me know. thought it was too brutal, no rules and which is true, and when i get my radio show by myself, brian kilmeade, he was my first guest. i would replay that interview and he said, because -- said some good things. so i just think you can learn this from john mccain. be consequential. when you take a position, people will be mad at you but when you go out and experience it, he didn't say syria would be a mess. he went to syria. he didn't say the russians -- he met vladimir putin and says i see nothing but evil in this guy. he's kgb. when he thought afghanistan was getting neared down, he went there so he is not somebody who sits back and just wants to get famous. he wants to take action. but you get a lot of people getting mad another amy tan. permanent fun and other authors i want to touch on so i have basket of books that i'm reading. >> host: and that full interview with karla hayden is available on our hundreds web site. i "educated o'the author is tara westover who is

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that i was interested in dating him. we hadrking relationship. it was cordial and it was very comfortable, so i was surprised that he was interested in something else. with regard to the other incidents -- and my time is running down, and i will com? back to them -- but with regard to the other incidents that youÑ?x7 mentioned in your opening statement, can you tell us how you felt at the time? were you& uncomfortable,wwwwwwuuuww were you embarrassed, did it not concern you? how did you feelww about it?wwwww >> the pressure to go out with him i felt embarrassed about because i had given him am explanation, that i thought it was not good for me, as an employee, working directly for him, to go out. i thought he did not take seriously my decision to say no, and that he did not respect my having said no to him. i -- the conversations aboutoggw sex, i was much more embarrasseg and humiliated by. the two combined really made me feel sort of helpless in a job situation because i really wanted to do the work that i was doing. i enjoye

this was a painful experience i had with my mom. e spoke like this often, this wasn't a once in a while kind of thing. this was happening on a weekly basis. it shaped me, it informed how i view the world, how i understand race and equality. i thought it was critical in trying to convey the truth of my experience. brian: some more. "i gave birth to your black ass, i raised you and fed you, i will not come second to whoever this bitch is, have i made myself clear?" for the next half hour, she grilled me about my girlfriend in explicit detail, what did her body look like, what kind of kisser was she, what did i want to do with her when we were alone? it was the last thing i wanted to discuss. what is the background? zachary: i am 13 or 14 years old, not just interested in girls anymore, i'm starting to talk to them, i am beginning to date and i have my first serious girlfriend. my mom essentially felt threatened by that. there is another woman in his life whom he -- whom she feared i would love more than her. it was an irrational fear o

i decided to speak out publicly to a journalist who had originally responded to the tip i had sent to "the washington post" and who had gained my trust. it was important for me to describe the details of the assault in my own words. since september 16th, the date of "the washington post" story, i have experienced an outpouring of support from people in every state of this country. thousands and thousands of people who have had their lives dramatically altered by sexual violence have reached out to share their experience and have thanked me for coming forward. we have received tremendous support from our friends and our community. at the same time, my greatest fears have been realized and the reality has been far worse than what i expected. my family and i have been the target of constant harassment and death threats and i have been called the most vile and hateful names imaginable. these messages well far fewer than the expressions of support, have been terrifying and have rocked me to my core. people have posted my personal information and that of my parents on-line on the internet.

i had to prove us all to him. -- myself to him. that -- i worry about don't have to worry about that. this in george can do he would like you to do it. >> was her one piece of legislation before the committee you were turning the corner>? >> i don't remember stuff like that. i remember the incident. something was going on and we were fighting like mad with a hearing. up, thewas set republican set it up so that something was -- that does not make good tv. it was a hearing that was a battle. in,ge sent his staff because they were a fright i would not be able to handle it did and i said no, i am fine. and i was. all, they werey -- i got a load of complement -- a lot of complements. did i have what it took to deal with whatever these issues where? there is a quote that we came across the want to ask you about, your quoted saying it takes you tenure stop being teenager into become a full adult in congress. thata would you meant by -- can you explain what you meant by that? >> you are learning and trying and testing and experimenting. and

i never had a steak. never knew what that was. >> host: what do you remember about making the decision to defect from north korea? when was that idea formed? >> guest: this formed when i was -- in early 2000, back when things were very desperate in my family that we were not able to find food. >> host: when you talk about not being able to find food, would you go days or a day without eating? >> guest: sometimes you have food every day. sometimes you have many days without food, and that is why we ate one or two potatoes a day. we can say that is not enough -- [inaudible] frozen potatoes. they are too expensive. we cannot afford that. they would starve if -- [inaudible] my father was training in selling and you can find and i go to catch the grasshoppers and a lot of plants. those things are so scarce. everyone is looking for food. now the estimate of 10 million are starving in north korea. the people i was able -- [inaudible] >> host: okay, so you made -- tell me about the decision-making process to get o

at the time i wanted in my life somebody i knew had. attempted to use it. and it obviously didn't work but. my heart was pounding so hard. i thought it was going to come out of my chest. i feel safer. staying in one place where people might find out what i do and who i am i don't want people. i don't want to be. by the people around me. i was leading a church one day. three four years ago now and i got to email it said i'm ready to commit suicide. and it was a transgendered life. for two or three years and was totally discouraged i was actually exchanging information and talking with him on some level up to five times a day to keep frank. he eventually restored is why he did the transition but. this is my entire office right here my computer my dez my chair my slippers and this is where i sit and work i don't need any more than this everything that i do is right here on the computer or on the phone talking to people i did transition now for twenty five years longer and so it was when i did transition. everything began to make sense to me and when i realized

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by the time the election result was clear, i had to go out to my first official meeting at the officesof the foundation, so i dressed up in a cheerful suit, fixed my hair and tried to express happiness and gratitude. i wanted to hug my friends but they were far away. so late that night the combination of political anxiety and jet lag made sleep somewhat intermitent and i decided to think that previous work on emotions hadn't really gone deep enough as i say examined my own fear it gradually dawned on me that fear was the underlying issue, multiform fear. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> well, good evening, i'm bradley graham, coowner of politics and prose along with my wife and on behalf of the entire staff here at p and p, thank you very much for coming. so in just a few weeks the u.s. will be marking the 17th anniversary of the 911 attacks, we have been a nation at war

a great high school run i mean you know i had a lot of fun and i fancy i had too much fun and if you're like me and my friends you drive around and look for hotels and you go skinny and that's both we did for entertaining. the crowd with girls i could always get very nice girls beautiful girls intelligent girls but they couldn't get the stupid one. and i wanted the stupid. one night stand but that i never had the cheapest she was wearing glasses i didn't notice. but i found my know why when she was sixteen and. maybe you call it a lack of opportunity but i'm still here. she was long and not stupid. for most of the miters getting behind the wheel of a car was the road to independence and freedom. the ways mason was determined to drive no matter how difficult it was for her just his equally to get behind the wheel and do up her seat. driving instructor to narrow down the shot tonight say. somebody. took the test which. was exactly the same as everyone else there's no difference they came so natural it's not be driving. in most of my life and. in a college just because. my parents they wer

do that and live those that did write a story about what will me to lead a psychological wall all i had to now becoming their prize winning reporter was passing i was documented at the scene my teacher that i have questions as they were to them. i know what when you write why was that at least my name that many paper and 17 about the things i needed to be a successful new york washington post. to what i had it checked off by the time i was 30 get i don't know why the washington post nobody checked the papers but i would like to get the job i committed fraud. i have done all of. imagine i have a lot of lawyers make you stop that you fraud? that i am honest i have to be honest. >> on a personal level you walk around with that the black market with my bed. oh oh. i thought either somebody would out but i was ever in the iowa for and mike had to be very bad for the wedding for the first i really conservative i actually thought i would blurt that out that the legal first is that i did not. but i doubted myself occur. the real thing. don't i will be here than i have. for me somebody without m

one night, i had a vivid termite dream. i saw a string of sausages moving across the ground and my picnic had been stolen by insects. i watched them read my sausages all through town and the boxes they stolen where they were hiding the sausages. i woke up feeling bothered and ripped off when i told roddick, one of the principal investigators at the visa institute at harvard about the dream, shesaid sympathetically , collective transport. as though she had that dream all the time. of whatever frustrations i felt were transient, i was merely vacationing in the robot-assisted nightmare, finding the termites modus operandi and out of the other self organizing systems was a lifelong project, not a project with a completion date. justin warfel had been living this way for years, justin was a researcher at harvard. austin explained later there's a joke in complex systems that were all waiting for car now. this is a reference to back explaining, waiting for ghetto in which two guys wait for you know who never arrives locarno is a fr

tsongas: i had much to learn. the challenge i expense was not asmuch being in the majority it was being a newly elected member of congress. as i am leaving, i caution my constituents that whoever succeeds me, most of the candidates themselves have not been elected before either. there is much they have to learn and to be patient, so for me, it was just having to accommodate and embrace so many issues and learn more about them. and also to learn the process. as everybody says, you are drinking from a fire hose. that is true in the majority or minority and you are a newly elected member, but in the majority, we have a much greater opportunity to enact legislation that we think is important. example, as we were pursuing the affordable care act, not only were we in the majority, but as president obama was elected to office a year and a half after i came into office, there was much legislative work to be done. it is a special responsibility to get it right. in the minority, it is a different thing. i would not want to s

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i was. and she said ok let's be friends. we had shared the same interests like what i was saying we both like doing stuff especially. like. i don't know i can't i know he will say he remembers one time we were high and we sat down for. i just sat close to him when i had the shoulder and it was that point. with changing. that it was ok for me to start. in a romantic wife and i did. for. being to me theme to tween rachel and me. with me being surgically altered i. come to want to. enjoy intimacy and that wonderful fresh air. it is beautiful. for a little bit more right. if you notice. the green is starting to turn back brown he asked me pretty soon after a few bonds. i think i thought about it for not too long maybe a week or two and responded yes my older daughter said. she wanted they wanted me to be happy. and i knew i was going to change back with the big moment came when. i was praying and the lord jesus appeared to me as a vision in the very i could touch him just like i could touch anybody here and. came and reached down to me

i had taken an oath. i found myself after 9/11 defending the constitution against my own government. we late september, barely two weeks after 9/11, i presented -- and this was extraordinary efforts behind the scenes, other efforts that you may or may not discuss here or can, efforts to bring to light, right, what was actually happening, that the failure triggered a whole series of decisions made in the deepest of secrecy. we went to marine baginsky. i was actually tasked at nsa based on a george tenet memo, i was the senior executive to go across the entire nsa worldwide to find anything we could put into the -- i went back to maureen baginsky with a series of proposals at the top of that list was thin thread. to operationally deploy for the first time knowing it had been canceled this august. i was also a part of -- at the same time an effort to work directly with the fbi. that was all shut down. putting together the affidavit information goes up before the secret court. all that was dismissed, shut down

condoleezza: i had already gone back to stanford and became provost. i was surprised. he had done what he needed to do. i don't think there will ever be a full accounting of how much it was the way that he did the diplomacy at the end of the cold war with respect for gorbachev, never humiliating the soviet union, not dancing on the wall. one of the last things gorbachev did before he went out to sign the paper that would collapse the soviet union and allow borris yeltsin to become president of the russian federation, he called george h.w. bush and said, we did good things, didn't we? history will judge us well. and i said to president bush, do you realize how extraordinary this is? well, he was george h.w. bush. he said, i never thought about it. i said the president in his last act before the collapse of the soviet union called the american president essentially to seek his affirmation. that was a very big deal, but that is the way he was. david: another member of the family decides to run for president, george w. bush. condoleezza: yes. david: you become the national

i had never seen this before. >> neither had i. this points out one of our marines who had gone up to cash a check died. another got a purple heart for his actions on august 7. wife wasrgeant, his our community liaison officer and she was badly injured. she lost most of the site and one of her eyes and they had to medically evacuate her. dutyayed on as was his even though his wife was evacuated. whohe marine security guard was wearing this hat was in the , it was built in the 1970's to earthquake standards which is why on the outside it looks pretty secure. on the inside, as you can tell from the mangled remains of a television set, we were devastated. the rock that came from our embassy was blown into one of the vehicles. somebody found it in her vehicle. at the time of the bombing, i was on the 21st floor. with the tnt exploded here. this was once a seven-story office building. when thousands of kenyans arrived, what they found was a building that looked pretty ok the house that was now in total rubble. created a public relations

online high school was so easy, nothing like the private schools i had intended. my free time i was reading about all kinds of things. and i was so committed to bouncing back from that because that was a low point for me. i said, i'm going to learn as much as i can and i'm going to do something over the summer that will be intellectually rewarding, that will help me grow, and it will prepare me to go to williams and accomplish all these things i want to accomplish. brian: what were your grades at roper? i know you went to grosse pointe academy first, and to roper in detroit, but what were your grades coming out of roper? mr. wood: they were great. we did not really have a gpa, but we had an percent average, and mine was 96%, 97%. brian: what were your grades coming out of bullis? mr. wood: very similar. 96% average around there. brian: how did you get into williams and did you try other colleges along the way? mr. wood: i had been in contact with admissions officers at williams and at harvard and a number of other schools, but i narrowed it down to those two. harv

is it's frightening that i had the chutzpah to do that. >> people tell me i have a real sexy quality about me. >> a college football star, in the movies, he also did it had own stunts, which results in injuries and living with pain. he also battled serious illnesses. >> i went in to have a checkup, and they said, you have got clogged arteries. and i had a back rop ration. i've always felt lucky in my life, i had an incredible life. i have been so blessed. i know because you have a couple of close calls and it makes you start grabbing at life a little harder. >> his one and only oscar nomination came from "boogie nights". he puts up all the money for our films. it's an important process. >> he plays the director of adult films who mentors a young mark wahlberg. this afternoon, wahlberg paid tribute. robin williams wound up winning an oscar for good will hunting but reynolds got a nomination for the role. >> everyone says, you keep coming back. well, i didn't go away. >> he appears on our very first broadcast in 1981. even then he spoke about his own mortality. >> if there is a life aft

i decided to speak out publicly to a journalist who had originally responded to the tip i had sent to "the washington post" and who had gained my trust. it was important for me to describe the details of the assault in my own words. since september 16th, the date of "the washington post" story, i have experienced an outpouring of support from people in every state of this country. thousands and thousands of people who have had their lives dramatically altered by sexual violence have reached out to share their experience and have thanked me for coming forward. we have received tremendous support from our friends and our community. at the same time, my greatest fears have been realized and the reality has been far worse than what i expected. my family and i have been the target of constant harassment and death threats and i have been called the most vile and hateful names imaginable. these messages well far fewer than the expressions of support, have been terrifying and have rocked me to my core. people have posted my personal information and that of my parents on-line on the internet.

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my husband was there and i just had to get home. was walking on the street and i saw it come down and i said i am dreaming this. it can't be real. i don't even remember hearing it. ... the world trade center. all these people were running up our street, covered with this cement dust. many of them looking shell-shocked. and there was such an amazing comradery, coming together of the whole city during that time. but of course this is one of those moments, you say, i'm going to die. with is my life about? what is important? >> amazing sort of confluence of events. i'm going to ask one more question, but i want you to think about questions that you will ask because i will open it up to all of you. there are microphones in the aisles. and please ask a question of amy tan. my last question to you, in the interview is, what can we expect from you next? what are you working on? >> expectations. this is the questions my editor asks me. actually, he is fine. we're having dinner. he knows never to ask me that question. it's a novel. and the, t

i had confided in some close friends that i had had an experience with sexual assault. occasionally i stated that my assailant was a prominent lawyer or a judge but i did not use his name. i do not recall each person i spoke to about salt and some friends have reminded me of these conversations since the publication of the washington post story on september sixteenth two thousand and eighteen. but until july two thousand and eighteen i had never named mr cavanaugh as my attacker outside of there he. this changed in early july two thousand and eighteen i saw a press report stating that brett kavanaugh was on the short list of a list of very well qualified supreme court nominees. i thought it was my civic duty to relieve the information i had about mr cavanagh's conduct so that those considering his nomination would know about the salt. until i fix i had a sense of urgency to relay the information to the senate and the president as soon as possible before a nominee was selected i did not know how specifically to do this. i called my congressional representative and let her

each kindness, i had never shown. i threw small stones into it over and over, watching the with a the water rippled out and the way out and the way. like each kindness done and not done, like every girl somewhere holding a small gift out to someone, and that someone turning away from it. i watched the water ripple as the sun set through the maples. and the chance of a kindness with miya became more and more forever gone. >> host: all right. 202-748-8200 in the east and central time zones and want to have a chance to talk with author jacqueline woodson, (202)748-8201 in the mountain and pacific time seasons. we also have social media ways of getle hold of us. at booktv on facebook, at book tv on twitter and book tv at c-span.org on e-mail. next call for jacqueline woodson from denice in dayton, ohio, thank you for holding. you're on the air. >> caller: yes. thank you so much and thank you c-span through the years of watching c-span every genre, so many resources i've gotten through the years for my own person and the cl