i don't say that every time samurai garden come up and i see it. i say it because it brings up memories even though it was 1990. it brings back writing process memories that's very helpful to me now even as a writer. if i didn't have them i don't know what i would do, kind of thing. with samurai's garden i brought it and they never know what to expect from me. one said today, you never write the same story. i always feel i am writing the same story in all the books i have written because there are themes that go through my books consciously i don't sit down and say i will write about duty. or i will write about family. or i will write about world war ii god forbid. it somehow goes through every book i have done even when i tried not to. samurai garden is an example of quintessential set before world war ii, both of my cultures and everything i wanted to do and taught me what it meant to be japanese. that's taking liberty to saying taught me what it means to be japanese. i can't know exactly what it means to be japanese but it gave me a culture. a cul

i need to explain? no. [laughter] i was -- i had written, 3 quarters of the book and i was getting tired of only seeing from the point of view of steven. sometimes you get bored with your own character and your own voice because it was coming from his point of view only i thought how would i get another voice in here. this is the fun part of write itting makes you creative. when you get in a jam you think of things you might not normally do. i thought i need to get other voices in here and i will do this. when sachy goes up to the village. the leper lady when she starts telling him the story her voice come in. i thought to myself, thank god. i could write a section in her voice and not only be in his voice. those things don't come until you need to work them out. that stumped me for awhile and came to with when she and the other villagers who contract lepercy decide to kill themselves to not bring shame to the village. and she can't do it. the man servant who's story that steven slowly finds out rescues her. >> even now i feel t

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wasn't ready yet, i was much younger than i was now and i wasn't ready yet, my life has been -- >> rose: ready to give part of you to another person? >> yes. >> i have spent a great deal of my life shedding away masks, shedding away defenses, shedding away fear, shedding away insecurities, because i created a person, personal per so na, i was a little kid from new jersey and i created somebody and by the time i finished sculpting, frank lan larks got him exactly the way he looked and behaved, i had lost my essential self, and she got lost in that little mix. so now my -- i am hoping, hopefully, my essential self is coming -- >> rose: does she know this? >> no, i don't think so. >> rose: would she know if we are talking about her and watching this, will she know? >> i am waiting for her present husband to die and then i will tell her. >> i will write about it in another book. >> rose: another book about that. john gill good. >> i worshipped and adored him as a teenager i would i would in my attic and say, oh, oh what a miserable mind, such ug

i must say, i am very proud of that. when i started to do coutoure, after a lot of stories that may be issued do another job, i said, ok, i will do my own collection. i started and never stopped after. on boat one, one woman, done all in lace in the exhibition. it starts like, ok, i did not think to make another one. so i did one after and one after and one after peter i am still doing it now. this is 1997. more than 10 years. >> i ask the question because it is very interesting when you talk about these people who marked the 1980's and earlier. but so few are around now or they are around in a relatively small way. you're in a situation where your company, the majority shareholding is with pooch to do the fragrances and work with other fashion houses. is this some sort of a new beginning? was it important for you to have this? >> definitely. it was a change. when i went to my company, it was a moment where there were more shops and boutiques. so we went with ermez, and it became something that was very funny. we -- one moment

i let him free. i think i was around five years old that i started to take care of him. first, very important, i was -- [unintelligible] seeing on my grandmother. she had white hair. so i was putting on the the bear a little color that was kind of blue. after that, i do not know why, but i said he has to change. so it was more red, which was a strong color, too. then i try to make it black. that did not work. the texture of the paintings, because i was putting paintings on him, did not go with it. so i had to destroy it and start again. blue, red, start again. all the make up was the makeup of my grandmother. you can see an exhibition a teddy bear. i should say that he is a little nice monster, but it is a little monster anyway. you know, i have some affinity with air. i'd love the air. i love to touch the air. >> i hope you like my hair, because of a drag queen's last night were trying to touch it. [laughter] >> for the moment, i am not yet a drag queen. but you can look at that photograph of me. thank you for the inspiration. [laughter] >> well we are joking about the c

i felt. i should make a parallel. what i felt was, for example, jewish has been like rejected, have been rejected. me, for other reasons. and when you have -- there are some people that to be integrated, they change themselves. they hide it themselves. i decided not to hide myself, like the fact that my sensibility was different than my situation was different. i could express it because i went into fashion, and in fashion, there is a lot of gay, so i did not suffer. a lot suffer. i think every minority is that they are ashamed and they do not say that they are. i felt the it was good. you should not ask to be ashamed and to hide yourself. to me, it is courage. i'm sure for a lot of people. maybe they did not say because it is some taboo like religion. it is like, if you are all together on showing who you are, you will be accepted, and people will refine everything normal. i remember one movie which was very beautiful, "chocolat," which shows one guy which is italian, and he goes to work in switzerland. he is not integrated

i mean, i still cannot believe that, when i think about it. i was able to be, and i hope still am, in my riding, not the same as in real life. tavis: when you started writing books that young, in your 20's, and you have young babies at the time, i understand the link to young people. you are still relatively young. as you got chronologically gifted, as my grandmother would say, how do you know that you are connected to young readers? >> i am not sure that is the reason that i wrote for children. i think that i had a connection to children, and i still have a connection to children. and i really do not know how to explain that. the child inside me, the memory of being a child. tavis: being a child when we were children is i suspect quite different, in many ways. i have nieces and nephews, and their childhood is not like the world i grew up in. how you make that connection? >> the world is nothing like, but i think the inside, being a child is a universal experience, as well as being an adult. tavis: children do not have the time to be innocent t

i will try. yes, but it is part of the job. so i tried. i worked with a dutch artistic director, and i get to work with him. he was very specific and fabulous man. also, they were very specific about the color. in reality, they asked me because the color is a little like in the spirit. it is something in common. i was flattered to do that, but it is beautiful to see how much they are -- our work, our demand is to make a beautiful movie. i should not be able to do anything. i never thought about it, but when people ask me, you have to be so clever. >> tom ford made a movie, so why not you? >> because my brain is not that sure. you have to think about so many things. truly, it is a big work. you have to be strong. you have to take care also of the physiology of the actor which is, like, oh, my god. you can be depressed. also, you see the depression of everybody. i do not want it. i have enough of my own. >> i hope you will be sharp enough to answer the questions the audience has for you. rather like the academy awards. [applause] these questio

had my children and i got married, i saw the world. when i got to 40, i do not know if you felt this way. what now? i have done all those great things i thought i wanted to do. i got married and had my kids and besides staying home and being a wife and raising my children, what do i do to make me feel more fulfilled as well? around 38 was the time i started that i would get my toe back into the swimming pool, literally and figuratively. it was around 38, 39 kind of like you. i got this sudden urge to do a little bit more. and i like being busy. i like doing things. it was kind of appropriate at that time. tavis: do you think this return has to do with restlessness? >> no. i do not think it was restlessness. any mother would tell you, we put everything on the back burner for our babies, our children. i was thinking, this looks making -- being an olympic swimmer look like a piece of cake. swimming is part of my soul and i will always able to do it and do it well. at the end of the day and wanted to put my head on the pillow and feel like i was

i go back to russell, i think it was -- when i got close to russell where i could see him, i see he was shot. >> where? >> in the head. you know. and he's laying there. and i get up to russell. i said russell. jesus. you know, he's in bad shape. he got shot right through the helmet. it creased his head. his head's wide open. and all this blood, mess, and everything else. and he's laying there. and he's looking up in the sky. and his mouth's open. he's not saying anything. so i lie to him. i said, you're going to be okay, russell. i've got to get the gun. the gun's laying on the side. when he got shot, everything went to hell. and we're under attack. the bullets are still hitting. cracking. so he's laying right there. and so i upright the gun, take aim out there. where we were firing last before i left him. and dpsh something i want to tell you here. i don't want to lose my thought. anyway, i start firing again. and fire and firing and firing. screamed for a medic in between. scream for a medic, medic. lo and behold, here comes another medic. some blond-haired kid. i didn't get his name.

i believe he was representing hsa. i am -- i understand clear and maybe i do not know who the question is for. this was a slide we saw about square-foot it of this facility. i think it was 18,000 square feet? 20,000. currently, hsa is in 11,000. we have heard from a lot of speakers come forward that are not currently in the building. mine understanding was there is hsa has additional space needs? >> one of the issues as we have the largest needs population in this area. a lot of our services has to be out of areas because we do not have the space here. one of the things we have always asked for is we have asked for more space which can serve our clients here instead of having to ship our clients into the parts of the city for services. one of the issues is territorial issues along -- around our young black men and black women. one of the reasons we're successful is this is a neutral site that has uniformed police that are not security guards. >> i understand that. there are these -- there are these other cbo's that seem to have

i don't know. i worry and wonder about that. i do know when john dean's book came out i was shocked because this guy was working down the hall three doors down. i was in the corner office and he was in the middle. a big suite of offices right in the middle. it was like a mafia operation going on down there. i didn't know that. it was -- maybe i should have inquired. maybe i should have asked harder questions than i did but even -- i'm not even sure. fred fielding was working in the john dean suite and friends, terrific guy, well respected since. i'm not sure he understood. but when i read the john dean book i came away feeling like there was a white house within a white house that i didn't know anything about. i didn't even know it existed. and i had come to believe that the white house can be more compartmentalized than you would think. look, i work for two or three years next to -- sitting next to mike dever in the west wing in the reagan administration. i knew mike had a glass of wine. i knew he liked terrific wine. i didn't kn

there is no reason i should be homeless. i did when i was supposed to do but it was the government -- the system here, it treats people very badly. i have seen very sick people waiting for it their bed. some people cannot walk, and some people are hungry, they are tired and depleted, and some of them do not get a bed. it is a sad thing to see their faces. i have been in the next door, and they sent me once to something called sanctuary, and i gave them the bed and said i would not sleep in this place, where the garbage and the beds are in the same place. and it smells like a pigsty. i was upset. next door is a little bit cleaner. some people who are there are a very mean to other people. they have been mean to the other people. [applause] i just want to say that i do not know how many educated people are homeless, i know i should not be. but i know that there are some and we actually see, with our eyes, and we here with our ears. >> where did you teach in san francisco? >> wallenberg high school. >> thank you for your service. [applause]

when i first came here, i was almost dead. i needed 6 liters of blood. i was treated like i should be dead. i went to a shelter, and the shelter looked at my bags and said, "we can handle you, but we cannot handle your personal belongings." the man at the door told me, " witt, go in and sit down, and i will get your bags later on. i go in and sit down. the woman at the desk said she would inform me about the rules. the rule was i had to have a thing around my wrist so i could get in and stay in. that night, i wind up sleeping in a chair. the next morning, i took my bags out, and i went to get a band, and i did get one, when i came back in, demand will be to sit down again, so i sat down. at 10:00, the man cam told me that they had a bit for me. i got in the bid. when i got in the bed, and let my bed behind the door. what was that? the doorman told me to go in and sit down, and they would give me a bed, but the bag could not come in. i wait for about four hours. my bags were not checked, so i went back, and he said not to worry about the backs, they would

i get a lot wrong. i cringe when i pronounce a japanese word because i know i'm not say itting correctly. i can get away with it. here i don't know, it's harder to get away with it in the bay area because we are such a melting pot. and so many people who know japanese where i don't. what i discovered i think on the whole, for all cultures both cultures and the writing process itself is the more i write about different cultures the more i realize how much alike we are. and if you take anything away take that. take the fact that all humanity is the same. you know the -- culturesar a background for me it makes you who you are. if you are japanese you bow. if you are chinese you don't. there are certain things that are specific to each culture. but if you are writing characters there are specific things that are everybody. and that's more important to me in that sense. you have the culture's background but if you can understand why a person who lives in that culture feels the way they do or does what they do i think that's

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think because i am doing well i do not think i have to rest. is not mean an -- i do not think i have herto rush. it is not me. it is always, let me think about it. tavis: and when will you know when you have overtax yourself? when will you know there is too much on your plate? >> you and i do not live in the world, so i am going to put you in there, too. i am never satisfied. i do not need a lot of sleep. of i love to think about the the next deal., what do i worry about? i do not want to take on too much, because i have got to manage it. i have got to execute. i have to be successful. and my out of way that i feel yes, so this was a great question. i want to be still for the next year or two, because this is enough. i have to make sure the dodgers are successful. the play, we cannot control about. i hope that is successful, and i am sure it will be, but there is enough on my plate right now. you said earlier, why take on that? because i am going to take time making sure it is successful, and i have got to hire the right people and make sure the

i ask if she had children. not yet i said. i said it sucks. then i try to be funny. do you think epidurals have contributed. she opens my chart. is says you're having trouble holding urine. i pee every time i sneeze. may be i should wear depends. are you doing your cagels? let me teach you a way that will be fun. i think she's about to make a joke. as you squeeze, save, i love my body. four counts hold. notice your vaginal area tightening. i love my body. squeeze a little harder. i love my body. good. that does make it fun, i say. alex presses on my belly and says seven pounds. how am i going to get it out? i am hoping for a super wide vagina. i will have one after the birth. i know this is not sexualy, ideal. i think lesbians like a super wide vagina on their partner. the more she can shove in, the more sexual. you shouldn't sircumicize. do you have any articles about the benefits of circumcision marks a jewish boy. i know she's not a lesbian. then you don't understand. week 31, i'm not going to sircumicize. i heard on the radio that thomas jefferson owned slaves. he

i want a bed so i can get some rest and take a proper shower. i did not do anything to anyone wrong. i fought for this country. >> thank you. thank you for your service. >> finally i am here, thank you. i spent 28 years of my life to fight for the people that came to fight for them. and ashamed that we see good homeless in this country. to see a woman and a man to do what they did, that is very shame. they're going to support us. also, we would like to give a chance to the man here, who has been hired to be the big head of the homeless. i don't need to have that anymore. we have criminal people taking the food and donation. no more apparent to wake up, i am here. thank you. >> thank you for waiting. i know they usually speak first. >> i work with the coalition on homelessness. i was not going to speak on this issue. you asked about the santa clara program for transportation for the homeless. the response was that you were unable to obtain information. i was able to obtain the information very easily. on the first of last month, i did send you all

i regret that i was behind them. i saw things in those rooms and led the kings in those rooms that i regret and i regret is gone through this country. i had already come to the epiphany that what i had already done was wrong, the system was wrong, and they came to believe that i had to speak out and talk about it because so much of what was wrong end is wrong is still happening. nobody is doing anything about it. we will hoping to get people angry enough that they go do something hot. tavis: behind getting caught, what is the epiphany behind this feeling of remorse? >> when my scandal started, i was probably at the top of my game. i had the largest single practice in washington. an article came attacking me and my practice. the initial response to that article, it was kind of humorous. it is posted on the firm website, we exchanged leadership had determined that the picture wasn't necessarily -- we thought it would blow over and washington is add. -- a.d.d. tavis: you thought to underscore it because it showed how good

i am lucky because i do the work i love, and doing it, i love it even more. it permits need to be accepted and loved. if you receive love, you can give love. [applause] >> we cannot really have a more beautiful ending than that, but i am going to use my chance just to ask one last question. do you believe that you have marked fashion history? >> it is difficult to say. is it my purpose? i do not know. i think that's everybody is marking fashion history in a way. as much as journalists because they show the people. what is fashion history? some old clothes that you can find may be in the free-market? books, magazines, newspapers? i think that i am part of that, but to think that me, i'm mark -- i do not think so. it is not exactly my purpose. it really seems very selfish to do what you love. >> i'm glad i managed more or less to silence you with my question. [laughter] i would like to say that i believe you have marked fashion history in the best way by creating clothes, which have been a mirror to society as it changed and as it happened, and you will be known

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and i said i did not. they told me i had immunity. i said i did not. n taking full responsibility, i did not pull the whistle on the president, and i did not say that is not a good thing for you to do or that is not something you should be doing. i also did, as a result of those meetings, send a letter to john ehrlichman, in which i said there were people to be brought into one things, and there were six names and the files, and the bottom name was actually howard hunt. i think he was my last choice. in any event, it came down to hunt. interviews with howard. he came by my office a number of times, but i did not talk to him about this. i arranged for him to go interview ehrlichman, and he hired him, and he was put in my area staff wise. he must have had, he did get a consulting agreement. i did not arrange that. that was done by the staff secretary's office, but he saw himself as my friend and would come by the office a lot and tell me what was going on, so i was responsible for that. he teamed up with a warmly. -- teamed up with boardroom liddy. -- gor

i think i have a decision making problem. that's what i think i do. se like when decision comes, i know right from wrong and i'll be like, oh, that's wrong, but i just do what i like to do instead of what's right. i do what i want to do. >> figuring out the stressors that contribute to kids landing in juvenile is never an exact science. some come with serious crimes. some minor offenses. 16-year-old repeat offender ayryana is back after being released barely a month ago. >> are you allergic to anything? do you have any health problems? >> no. >> suicide? in the past or the present? >> yeah. in the past. >> you've been suicidal in the past? and you've never received counseling for it? >> ain't nobody know. >> your mom? what was your reason?ç what made you change? what made you not think of suicide anymore? >> my brother. >> your brother? that's a good reason. how old is he? >> 11. >> 11 years old. >> i do have two younger brothers and the one older brother. i've really been taking care of my two younger brothers since i was 13, because my mom's always

. >> when i came to prison i was a kid. i had to do what i had to do to survive. >> you don't know how many men you've infected with hiv? >> probably enough. >> he was convicted of three rapes but he told us he had raped 22 women total. >> after performing the rapes i would literally scare these women to death. >> and the word is -- >> when i talk to people about "lockup" they're really surprised when i tell them our lead field producer is a woman, susan carney. and she does a great job of capturing life behind bars in very, very difficult environment. she sat across from serial killers, rapists. she's seen stabbings. it's amazing how she keeps her cool even when inmates cross the line with her. >> and one of those times would involve a particular rule violation that occurred dozens of times during our stay at the holman correctional facility in alabama. >> there was an unusual phenomenon at holman prison. they had a big problem with public masturbation. they were dealing with the problem as best they can. if a person got cau

i mean that's. going to and i agree i mean you know. i mean this was going to get a lot of these young people and what ninety nine point nine percent of these young people have never been to uganda alex keep going. yeah and so i you know even that step that awareness is important and again you know it's i think it's unfair to say that simply because they are becoming involved in a small way that doesn't count yeah and so i think that the pejorative of his own is unfair and i think that again that one percent of one hundred million is an important one percent and it's something that people are aware about and are willing to take action on beyond that so yes we can dismiss the ninety nine percent is what posers you know if we want to kind of take that position but nothing makes a difference in politics and so you know we we make move we make movements out of a large group of people making a change and a small group of people leading them and that's not that's not change but the internet so i think it's a little unfair to kind of to say tha

and i wonder what do you think about ok alex if i can go to you i mean i would go back to this estate ability i would because i cannot i just miss the point all of us look at it very carefully and look we have our own criticism but in the in the popular imagination the i mean it was one hundred million clicks i mean do people still do you think people still believe that this kind of hype fairytale documentary that was made and it will have an impact on this not at all sure but i mean there were many could always tell a story not a hero it's a question you know we still let's go ahead alex first yeah alex first. john's absolutely right it wasn't a fairy tale it was a story and we always tell stories that's what we do in the media and that's true of social media as well as kind of the traditional mainstream media i mean i know i went into a classroom two nights ago to talk to undergraduates and and most of the people in the room had never heard of the l. or before the video and i know that that's kind of scary but with one hundred million people viewing it i suspect it's a large proport

i do. i can make jokes about these. ihave a completely mail sent to do i want to use these for taking quick sometimes i do. but it's all in fun. we can't take it to search the. we just have to take it in stride. >> in the back over there. >> i'm with politico. you have ruled himself out of the vice presidential ticket at the fumble last night you called represented all of us, a good option. i'm just one if you could elaborate more on why you would recommend him? is he a top pick in the chautauqua other people speaks first of all, i'm not recommend anybody. i don't think i'm qualified to recommend anybody. what i was saying was the people that have been mentioned, and all those people that i mentioned had been mentioned as a vice presidential nominee. i think there'll be a slew of people. and i mentioned that alan west bank could. chris christie same had. marco rubio's name has. we've had tons, kelly ayotte name has. the vice president you can do, i'm not worried about that at all. we have got great people. are unchained i

only time i touch my own flesh is when i soap up anyway. if i have to do it to take care of the kids that's all that matters. >> no porno? >> no, i would not touch another being. no one. i won't touch any one. no kissing, no touching, nothing. >> a lot of people are angry over the public assistance you have been receiving. >> i am, too. i don't get angry often but i am angry and ashamed. they are not alone in that. i cried two-days after. i was crying making that call actually. i couldn't do it. took me a half a day to do it. finally got a hold of them. they took me to the supervisor. the supervisor was shocked saying i can't believe you waited three years and you have been trying so hard. it is okay. your kids deserve it. my goal is to immediately get off the food stamps. but it costs double what i am getting. i am so grateful to have 2,000 a month in food stamps when i am paying 4,000 a month. >> is mom living with you now? >> no. i haven't lived with my mother in over 8 years. >> you are taking care of 14 children by yourself? >> i am alone.