i have been in san francisco for 15 years. i came here to do my residency in family practice. afterward, i worked in the neighborhood. i started my own integrated medicine. this led me to participate in the medical cannabis movement and i founded a group that today has seen over 250,000 patients. i believe that my experience in san francisco in the medical cannabis community would help me and help the medical cannabis task force developed the guidelines that take care of our patients. i believe that our patients are interested in clean madison. i think that they are interested in legitimate access. finally, i believe that whatever regulations we propose should comply with the california medical association's recommendations. so, i thank you for considering me for seat 15 on the medical cannabis task force. >> actually, i have a question. i was hoping that you could speak more as a physician practicing in san francisco about how you and corporate medical marijuana in your practices and the challenges that you face working in one of our hospitals around this issue. >> i'm comfort

>> i was in business basically. i went to work in the lumber business. then wanting to write books i thought well i'm going to have to try to do something. i had this bright idea that i could do consulting and managed to get myself going in a consulting business, strategy for large corporations and ended up focusing on energy. the problem with that is in between consulting jobs i can write books. because in between consulting jobs you're spending your time trying to find the next consuling job. i ended up running a corporation that singapore that made batteries. i was manager there. so all the time i was writing these books, i was basically either in my own consulting business or running a corporation. >> how big a deal, you're not the one to ask this but i'll ask it anyway, is getting the navy cross? >> well, getting the navy cross, i can go to any navy base or marine base in the world and never pay for a coup of coffee or a drink. it is highest award that the navy department can give out. so it is quite a big deal. i talk about medals in this book a lot

i went in third person and i was 5 pages in and said, this doesn't sound right or read right, something's wrong. i went back because i learned from my first book, you have to think about voice and where it's coming from. i went back and put it in first person and realized it started to work. what i did was put it in the journal entries and it became what i should have known from the beginning because a began my colleges career as a film major wanting to make films not knowing i wanted to tell stories on the page and not on the screen. what i did was a stepped back and this is something one of my group members always tells me. where's at camera? what's happening? see from the camera's ankle. i realized he was too far away from everything. this book was different than the first book because in the first book i had so many voices and this book everything had to be seen from steven's point of view. when i narrowed it down the story told itself much the process of a writer is elizabeth said, you cannot be afraid to make mistakes. that's the writing process. we are making a lot of mistakes i am

>> i was in business. i went to work in the lumber business. wanting to write books, i thought i'm going to have to try to do something. i had a bright idea i would do consulting. i managed to get myself into a consulting business for large corporations. i focus on energy. the problem with my strategy is that in between consulting jobs i can write books. and forest lake, you are spending all your time trying to find the next consulting job. i ran a corporation that made batteries. i was there managing director. then i moved into international work. all these times i was writing both books. i was i there in my own consulting business or running a corporation. >> how big a deal is getting the navy cross? >> i can go to any navy base or marine base in the world and never pay for a cup of coffee. it is the highest award that the navy even get out. the medal of honor is higher. that is up to congress. it is quite a big deal. i talk about metals -- medals in this book. i never know what to make of it. it is a difficult process. how the people make jud

i was involved in campaigning against senator jesse helms when i was in college. en i came out here i was not initially involved politically. i was involved in community work, helping to build the lgbt community center, doing neighborhood work, and i eventually started doing campaigns and gradually got more involved in democratic party politics. ultimately, in 2004, i ran for the democratic county central committee and ended up chairing the committee. it was a gradual process for me. by the time i started thinking about running for supervisor, it made sense because of my involvement in the community and the politics. i knock on about $15,000 -- i knocked on about 15,000 doors and a huge amount of people. the best way to learn about the city and what people want and what people's concerns are. i feel like i know so much more than before i started campaigning. i am a good liberal democrat. in the san francisco, miniature spectrum, i am considered pretty middle of the road. one thing about me is i am very independent when it comes to the issues, and i do not vote on p

guest: i came here in 1963. i had a girlfriend in montreal and i would have been 18 coming on 19. had took a ayeayera off between school and university and came over here on the "empress of britain." then hitchhiked to vancouver. and i had been utterly obsess with america for years. my father's had a job here. at the last instant he got cold feet. i thought i would one day visit america. i hitchhiked to vancouver and entered america under the peace arch. the first sign i saw is it is illegal to pick up hitchhikers. people were so kind. so i left america thinking that this is a beautiful country, meeting john carson and john f. kennedy, opening a loch on the st. lawrence seaway. people are hospitable and generous, unlike europe. >> dinner with kirk douglas, coffee with john carson. how did you do this? >> i went to topeka, to an institute for the mentally unwell. and they said, the other famous person who lives here. he is in nice and you should go see him. he must have been in his 80s. he said, come horseback riding with me. it was like jumping on the express train. we talked abou

i believe in a vision of people having their needs met. i believe in equity. when people have special needs, we should be considered of that. i also feel that working families in the lowest income population should have a safety net. we should have civil-rights and equality rights for people as well. if that is being a progressive, then i am proud of being a progressive. ♪ >> hello and "welcome to meet your district supervisor. we're here with david chiu from district 3. that includes chinatown, fisherman's wharf, and part of the russian hill neighborhood. he was elected to the board in november of 2008 and has served as board president since january of 2009. we will get to know him and talk about the toughest issues facing them. thank you for joining us today. tell us about your background. >> my parents immigrated to the united states in the 1960's. i was the first kid born in the u.s. my parents sacrificed everything so that their kids could have the opportunities that they wanted when they came here. i grew up in the boston area and lived in different parts

i fell in love with my wife, -- became a chilean revolutionary. i fell in love with my wife. i speak spanish. i found myself in a position where when they tell you it is not possible to dream of the different reality, that is precisely when you have the dream of a different reality. that is when you have to not accept the silence they imposed upon you. >> you were exiled for dreaming that new reality. you were exiled for imagining a different kind of world. >> i love that word. when you are silent, when you accept reality as it is, it is a failure of the imagination, and we can live with lots of things, but we cannot live without hope. in some sense, when i went into exile, i imagine my country a certain way. this happens to all of us all the time. we leave our home, and we are constantly having the salsa, but when we come back we say, but the third -- we are constantly saying, the turkey is cold. the dream is social justice. it becomes complicated. i returned to chile, and i found i had changed too much and the country had changed too much, and i feel more at home in -- i cal

and i was there in many of the trials, the trials that i was present in. so it is storytelling, but it's storytelling from the gut rather than from the head which i kind of call window shopping. i wasn't interested in window shopping tony. i wanted it to be his energy. i wanted it to encapsulate a life force. i wanted it to show the great range of his humanity which is the full spectrum and extremely difficult to put on a page to say the least. >> the next question i have is for both john and tony. you both agree that the criminal justice system doesn't work, particularly for poor people in the criminal justice system. what would you do to improve it? we'll start with you first, john. what would you improve? this is an imperfect society that we have. we know that. what can we do to improve it? >> gee. you know, i don't know anything about the criminal justice system. but i think you need to start out in, you know -- we need to have income redistribution in the country. i mean, it's crazy. and if you do that, you know, in an important way, then a lot of thes

i don't see how we can escape it. in fact, i argue in the book that i cannot predict -- no one can predict the next foreign policy crisis. but i can safely predict that the next president will be involved in nation-building again. it's in our dna as americans. it's what defines us as americans. >> has there been a president who hasn't been involved in nation-building? >> not a president who actually oversaw a period of any major american expansion. there have been presidents who have served in short periods when the united states was contracting and that's okay. there are moments we might be in one of those moments right now. but any expansive period when americans have gone out in the world and sought to expand their interests has always involved nation-building. >> when has it been most successful. >> when they are committed to the cases they are involved in and two when we have good overseas partners. and one of the questions we need to ask ourselves, are we going into a place in the world that we believe in? and wher

i wanted to speak in chinese. i wanted to get them off of their fear of law and be able to understand in their own language what they were offered in this new country that they fought so hard to get to and that they could actually withhold their rent because they were paying for decent housing -- not for some basement hole in the wall with no heat and hot water. and i know supervisor kin -- kim just walked in. she and are working alongside many of the other supervisors. the district she works in is really exciting because we see the public/private partnerships already working when we both got together and talk to a company called twitter. not only did we talk to them in terms of them being a company that potentially would have a lot of money. we also talked to them about what community benefits agreements that they could be part up. when they move in to mid-market, how they could be transformed it in their jobs, in the people that they hired, and in fact in the very building they are rehabilitating on 10th and mark

i am the only undocumented in my family. that is because immigration officials refused to follow the law. i will explain why. it took so long to get my parents residency that i aged out. they do not care when you turn 21. they tell you to get in the back of the line. even waiting nine years, they are asking me to go to the back of the line again. i will be 23 by the time i can immigrate to the country legally. in the meantime, growing up, my parents had no idea this would happen. i graduated from college with a bachelor's in political science with a master's i as well. we fought hard to stay in the country. according to the law of the land, i am supposed to be able to use my old date for filing for immigration to the country, but so far immigration is refusing to let me use that old date, so i am in a month now. i cannot go back to fiji because i would have a 10-year ban on me. my mother has a small cleaning business she need help with. when i was in college, i used to spend the day talking about the political and economic ag

and i won in november, not even a year. and little did i know, i was running into a burning building. hercules was crumbling. in january, the mayor resigned, so i became vice mayor. and then the rico movement happened and i became the mayor in june. [applause] the fastest rise of anybody i know. we had a lot of problems. we had to lay off people, cut the budget, cut parks and wreck. our meetings were overflowing. we had to rally the community around as peter it is an ongoing thing, but we're turning it around. i am glad that i did not quit, thanks to the filipino womens' network who has inspired me and kept me on track. i never thought i would do this. thank you very much. [applause] >> we love you. in 2006, fwn hosted a victory party. there were about four women that won the elections at that time. one of them was a jill wynns del rosario. it is interesting -- joanne del rosario. it was interesting at the time because i invited her to the party, and she said, no, i did not want to jinx my election. she said i do not want to

i point that out in there. o thinks this is a democratic revolution, texas was a sway state. it was a slave nation, but i think that the americans were right in that sense that they had a legitimate claim there, and the mexican army came up to the border, and you have to fight, but there's no doubt once the war started, folks said, okay, and he said who is that tryst down in mexico, the greatest state department agent ever who took the entire southwest and california. >> host: before we break, do you think the mexican nationalism really has designs on -- >> guest: i believe that the mexicans -- listen, something like 56% of the mexicans, not sure the figure's in this book, but earlier ones, believe the southwest by all rights believe to them. i think they believe that as they move in gradually the numbers, they will gradually become as i say socially and culturally a part of the southwest, and some of them candidly believe if the merger of the three nations in this president that it will be as much a part of mex

i do not live in that area. the reason i came here today, for over three generations, russian jews -- for example, in 1934, my father studied with a rabbi for one week. they came and put him in jail. my parents, my father was a principal in high-school. mother was a teacher. they felt i should be able to get a jewish education. the reason i came here today, i heard many parents were planning to take their children away from the school because of the antennas. it is ironically going to lose jewish education for the children. i request you reject the project. thank you. president olague: you may want to pull the mic down. [laughter] >> radiation can cause cancer. is a cell phone tower more important than in human life? i am more scared for my brother then me, because he is in kindergarten and i am in the fifth grade. i do not want to go to school and get cancer. the students and parents do not deserve to be scared anyway. thank you. >> what was your name for the record? >> david. >> thank you. >> hi. our class is o

we are often in awe of this place. i think what he brings to the city is an important thing in the time of this city's growth, and as sean said, as all big city in america does, we have pockets of poverty, pockets of trouble, and i think the mayor is really looking at this with fresh eyes, and it is terrific to welcome you. [applause] >> thank you. well, thank you very much. it is my pleasure to be here. philip, thank you for that introduction, and as many of you may have heard, we just had a recent election here, the voters have asked us to step up for another four years. i do not know if you know this -- i have been a very reluctant politician. i think the real story is that i would never have been in the position i am in today of my cell phone had not worked in hong kong. [laughter] literally a year ago. but it is a government and a city i have had the pleasure of working in for the last 22 years. it has been a wonderful experience to do this public service. i also do not know if you know a little bit of my history. i

my husband and i live -- work in downtown. we love the community very much, and we're very committed to the neighborhood. i wanted to say that in the past four years, since a few parents started, it is only 10 of 12 people in the beginning, now grown to a large number of families, and it is definitely even in the four years time, the change we have seen is a lot. also in my mind, the second point is i think the playground in my mind is not just a playground for us, but i really think that it is, like, a center of the community. we have community events right now, the large-scale, about two times a year. the hell with party. a long time ago, a family started there, but last year, a lot of people came this past easter, and the halloween party to the wheel weeks ago attracted over 50 kids and a lot of families. everybody, gramm and count -- parents, grandparents contribute their money and time. really a community effort. i really hope that if there is a playground in our neighborhood, it is becoming a community center, and parents

i don't have hate in my heart. what i have is compassion in my heart. because i have come here today that maybe one of you will reach out to someone in your life to give them hope. what happened here was unexpected for me. totally unexpected. i came here thinking i would unleash my rage and anger. what i found, i found what else i can do. to try to make a difference. >> i would like to say thank you. your strength is overwhelming. your love for your daughter and the ability to try to make a difference in the world. we love you. >> i myself am in prison for taking a life. i can't say i understand how you feel, but i can understand your loss because i'm dealing with that every day. i will let you know that we feel your pain. >> it affected me. it shook me up. i wish every man had the opportunity to really know how their victim felt. >> we never see the victims. coming into this prison, you come face-to-face with the victim. i know this is tough, but it helps us see the reality of what we have done and it can't do anything but guilt. thank you. >> we never

in 1958? >> 1958 -- i was able to vote in 1958. i was from a small county between montgomery and mobile. veterans did not have a problem getting registered to vote in 1958 in conecuh county. there was a share of the day -- share today -- there was a sheriff there who took on the establishment. the went out and help blacks get registered to vote. this was before 1958. he died in 1956. blacks did not constitute a threat. at that particular time, being a veteran, that was not a major problem. >> dr. reid, what did you do at the alabama education association? >> i am the associate secretary at the alabama education association. i have been privileged to serve that organization since 1964. i came over from the black association in 1964. the alabama state teachers association -- there were 11 southern states that had associations in the south from virginia to texas. i came i can on as the a's active secretary at that time. >> dane -- dan carter refer to this a couple of times. the schoolhouse stand. let's see this video of george wallace followed by president kennedy. >> unwanted intrusion on t

i can't remember. [laughter] and inand, and i think it was that from which a baby sucks but not a real that from which a baby sucks [ laughter ] >> that was the translation? >> yeah, that's as ggod as she couldddo in french. >> she could even ake that funny. >> yeah, well, i, i said that she did what she didú with other things that she fought it, about cancer, she fought it and she cursed it and, and in the end she made fun of it. >> yeah, that's good. let me switch topics for a second. >> all right. >> the first piece in this collection... >> right. >> ...ii a piece about your little pilgrimage that we actually went on together down to a barbeque restaurant in lexington, texas. >> that's right. &->> snow's barbeque. >> a trailer, ann it was... >> well, i think the snow's people would... >> would they object to that characterization? >> i think they would quarrel with that. i think a shack as they would say. >> shaac is a better word, pardon me, withdrawn. it's a shack. >> right. >> food is really your passion above all

in responsible to the fear of change are what i call prodi in tennessee, briefly that is something i ay about totalist them. in terms of the nazi doctors -- >> what is evil and what choice do they have? >> and maybe just amplify that. how does your understanding of evil change through your -- the bulk of their encounters? >> well, my understanding has been enormously influenced by what i have found. and that is how people can be socialized to evil. as the holocaust and one theory that says that the committed the holocaust because they had a unique form and degree of anti-semitism. i am not at all sure that is the case. think there is as much anti-semitism in other places. but the capacity to adapt to the vote, to be socialized to evo was what i learned. that is related to the bin out the lady at evo, but i modify what she's had so that of course she understood that he was sent evil or that's often missing. it was the people who committed evo and also that when you commit evil of a period of time you change and you're no longer so ordinary. but the general lesson i learned about evil h

in 1958? >> 1958 -- i was able to vote in 1958. from conecuh county, a small county between montgomery and mobile. blacks were not considered a threat then. veterans did not have a problem getting registered to vote in 1958 in conecuh county. because they were not a threat. there was a sheriff john brock, who took on the establishment. he went out and help blacks get registered to vote. this was before 1958. he died in 1956. before 1958, there were efforts to get blacks ready to vote. blacks did not constitute a threat. they were captive votes more than anything else. at that particular time, being a veteran, that was not a major problem, getting registered to vote. >> dr. reed, what did you do at the alabama education association? >> i am the associate secretary at the alabama education association. that's the teachers' union. i have been privileged to serve that organization since 1964. i came over from the black association in 1964. the alabama state teachers association -- there were 11 southern states that had dual associations

in boston. so it's weird. i mean, in new york you see them n vegas they come out of the, you know, the atm machines. i don't know about d.c., but you just don't see them in boston. so i couldn't figure out why they had so much money, and i started hanging out with the main character. and in the book i called him kevin lewis because he wanted me to change his name because he didn't want to be known as the blackjack guy. and then the movie came out, $-- "21", and he did want to be known as the blackjack guy. in his laundry was $250,000 in banded stacks of hundreds. you know, at fist -- >> host: this is totally random. >> guest: yeah, i knew him, i was friends with him, but i didn't know he had all this money. i thought he was a drug dealer at first, but he's this nice, geeky guy. and he said, you've got to come to vegas with me. so the next day i was at a time in my life where i could do that, and him and six of his buddies flew to vegas, and they pretended they didn't know each other -- >> host: were you in on th

i went to grammar school at stuart hall in district 2. i went to high school in st. ignatius. i'm a very proud wildcat. i went to college at loyola marymount college in los angeles. i had a scholarship to play baseball down there. ended up going to ireland and getting a master's degree at university college dublin. came back to the states and went to law school at the university of pennsylvania. spent three years in philadelphia. came back, and ever since coming back to the bay area, professionally, i have been a corporate attorney down at palo alto. i left after about three years and became an investment banker here in san francisco at thomas was all partners. working the industry for about five and a half years. in the summer of 2009, joined a venture capital firm. i am happily married. my wife and i lived around laurel village in district 2. we have two small children. our goal is five and our boy is three. how parents and excited to be here on the board. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? and tell us about what motivated your interest in politics. >> choosing t

i hope you can all hear me in the back. when i first got in the race, i have the prosecution experience and the law enforcement background and the same attitude as to the death penalty, based on my personal experience having been a prosecutor, i would never seek it, so we share the same progressive ideas. as i listen to them, i realize they are admitted to the bar but had never practiced law. mr. gascon has been a police officer. mr. onick is a professor appeared as far as i know, they have never taken the opportunity to go down to the courtroom to interact with the public defenders, the defense attorneys. yes, one wants to hold on to the job he was appointed to, and one wants us to reward him with this job, although he has never been a trial attorney and has never practiced law. unfortunately, i have not gotten to know you that much, but i did appreciate your comment as it related to the position of the prosecutor's office and public defender's office. ms. bach, i think you are an excellent prosecutor, but you are in a diff

think -- i think in a way, i think it suggests war in this sense. i think the texas war of rebellion revolution was a just war. the people rose up and outnumbered the mexicans 10-and-1, and they took that -- they took texas out, and for ten years, the mexicans didn't try to retrieve it, and they were an independent country, and then they said we want to join the united states. they had the right to do it. it was a dispute between the riogrande and the river, and polk sent the troops down to the riogrande, saying we claim it all. >> host: they wanted to expand the territory for slavery. >> guest: you're right. i point that out in there. anybody who thinks this is a democratic revolution, texas was a slave state. it was a slave nation, but i do think that the americans were right in the sense they had a legitimate claim there, and the mexican army came right up to the border, and you had to fight, but there's no doubt once the war started, polk said, okay, who's that tryst? he sent him to mexico, the greatest state department agent ever who took the en

in 2008 and 2010. i worked to save st. luke's hospital in the mission and eliminate hazardous power plants in the bayview. san francisco deserved a mayor forward thinking as our people. we need neighborhood schools, long-term budget solutions and a government that is transparent and responsive. the eyes of the world will be on us for the america's cup. we need to turn that events into real opportunity by expanding our cruise ship terminals and ensuring the most green america's cup ever and turning it into long-term permanent jobs. that is the kind of mayor i will be. i humbly ask for your vote. thank you. >> the league of women voters and sfgov tv have collaborated to bring in statements from 14 candidates for mayor of san francisco. >> my name is cesar ascarrunz. i'm a businessman in san francisco. i lived here for the last 40 years. through my years, i learned and watched very successful and entertainment business. i went to college and i and hands my education at uc- berkeley. i opened restaurants and

after sitting here and listening, i did some research before a move in to the building -- i moved in to the building. you can look at the conditions of other buildings and it is atrocious, it is frightening. i will give credit to tmdc. i am more into bashing them. physically they take immensely different care of their buildings. all the issues i saw, not an issue. something is broken, they fix it. there is another shamrao of issues that go on. i come from a different background. the safety issues are immense. we have a desk clerk salal people to enter without signing in, that fosters people wander around. drug use is a man's. i have no position next -- if people want to make bad choices. when we have people who wander the hallways and knock on doors, it is a different issue. i got a huge room, i got a private bathroom, i look at some of these pictures and i realize how good i have got it in one respect. on the other hand there is a huge amount of issues that go on to deal with the mental and emotional abuse. i do not have my intimates nearly the time to go into that with you. i think

when i was box in, that was my nickname. irst started boxing, my hair was about as long as yours is, and i had a bunch of scars on my head, so it did not look good, but i found this record, "sun sessions, elvis presley," and i thought i wanted to go and greece my hair back -- grease my hair back. they do not put up with anything, and he said, "no, you are not going to do it." i was the only heavyweight he had, and he said, "as long as you win, you let your hair grow." i got long hair, but i had to fight for it. tavis: when you grow up idolizing these grades and are able to make yourself sound like them, -- when you grow up, i the lies in these -- idolizing the is -- these greats -- >> that is the trick. you do not hear yourself. you do not listen to yourself and say, "ok, now i sound like somebody unique." i always hear traces of other people in what i am doing. i can hear that in there, but i think it is just that i wrote my own songs. i did not to cover songs. i did not do these songs on stage for years on purpose, you know

for two years i sat in class and i couldn't get up in front of a class. it was like -- it was like i couldn't do it. i was terrified. and then one day, i was with this teacher said to me, to do like what you call work, she put myself somewhere else. and someplace that i loved that i missed. and i made it to fifth street gym. and we're doing this activity where i was lacing my shoes up. and my boots and she said you hear -- you har sounds in the gym. who's there? and she said to me, tell whose voice you hear? i hear ali's voice. i hear jimmy alice's voice and jerry qrry's voice and i started to have fun with it. and i was so focused and concentrated that it let all my -- being scared go. and years later, when i got -- i didn't like acting anymore, and i went away, and then turned professional and fought for five years and freddie roach was my trainer, there came a day when you can't fight anymore. ok. because my neurological tests. but people said i think to myself, was that destructive that i took five years off to go do that? but yet what i gained -- what

i plug it anyway. [laughter] it is in district 6, but it is read on the border. close enough. absolutely. i was able to bless the union, and i am so happy that you guys are still growing together and strong and in love. [applause] it is an incredible honor to be here amongst so many women, so many beautiful leaders. mayormerilee, i just want to say thank you. she has been my sister for years. before we knew each other, she worked on the merits network. we need to get more women on boards and commissions, as well as elected leaders. because when we have zero women at the table, that is one change starts to happen. [cheers and applause] i also want to acknowledge all the commissioners in the room today. thank you for all of your service. thank you very much, everyone. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, malia. first of all, i want to thank susie and her whole family who are here. you know, she is going to be feeding you later. maybe some of you have already started eating. andron is our brother and will play for us later. i

i mean, i remember in particular in response to one ad i placed in the democrat gazette -- i wanted to the picture and fine people who were at central with elizabeth and wanted to retrieve as many stories as i could -- i thought that was somebody heckling over there but i don't think it is. i remember one woman calling me -- i didn't get many responses to these ads. but i remember that there was one woman who called me, and she said that, my father was a segregationist. a white woman calling. my father was a segregationist. and -- but he came home -- he came home the night that the picture of elizabeth ran. it ran in the -- i hope i get this right -- in the democrat before it ran in the gazette because the democrat was the evening paper, and will count' picture ran first and there was a similar picture that ran in the gazette the next morning. hazel was not identified in either picture, which is interesting. one of the editors -- i talked to many of the newspaper people covering the story, and uneditor said that things were so inflame, there was no sense in identifying her, and to us s

. >> i spent a lot of time in montana. there are those who are federal judges or physicians or bankers, i hear from the cowboys in the street and the fishing goes and other people, i think there's a real anxiety in the country about the general direction of this nation and our society. >> charlie: we conclude this evening with calvintrillin his new book is called quite enough of calvin trillin. >> some people are funny. i don't think it's true you can't teach people to write because writing's ju thinking and you can teach people to write down their ideas. but you can't teach people to be funny. there was a professor who kept sending in these pieces. he's brilliant, absolutely brilliant. >> charlie: and they weren't funny. >> no. they were always sort of satire. you sort of felt a crane lifting this switch rue from one place to the other. there's definitely a new correlation of intelligence. >> charlie: brokaw and trillin, next. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie ro

and then it was -- >> for the first time in your 15. >> i thought the beginning in 1965 and i was justized by it. >> in your member exactly quite >> i do remember them talking about it. >> was your first impression? >> cardmember the idea were saying things that i never expected to see in my living room. i read the papers, sullivan has been meant to have on the black-and-white zenith television at 530 cockney coming to christ on a 15 minute broadcast in scheme what was going on in washington that day and stuff that was going on in europe. it was amazing. before that to go see the world series in a small town in which a mother would put all of us in the car and drive to sioux city iowa and would stand outside the department store on television tuesday the world series or go to sioux falls because they can signals. we couldn't get them in a remote area. we had a television signal that had three channels to choose from. on sundays i remember watching walter cronkite during a sunday afternoon kinds of shows. ed morrow was a huge share of mind watching all of that. and i suppose then the th

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and i spoke in that particular instance. the individual involved was, i use the expression vilified, because he was unwilling to participate or to condone intrusion into his private life and, therefore, whilst he was a high profile footballer, at the same time he wanted to retain a private life. and the newspapers didn't appreciate that he would contest that, their intrusion. and in this particular instance or circumstance, i can give you -- that's quite a lot in the public domain already. there were a group of footballers were staying at the hotel. they were the subject of the complaint by a young lady, that she had been sexually assaulted and raped. i acted for the footballers concerned. unfortunately, for one of my clients he was also staying at the hotel and was probably of more interest and have a higher profile than the other footballers, and was the vilified football who i mentioned a few moments ago. and there was i think a clear focus by the newspapers to identify him as being the likely potential acute, if you like.

for instance, i was in new zealand, and i had a song called "rebel in me." i met this young girl, she pointed at me, she said i saw you on tv. she started expressing what i saw you on tv doing. people of today ♪" she does not know the lyrics, but she is singing the melody. it is an energy that we commit to. it is the same way that if you listen to a stevie wonder ssong. that energy that stevie wonder was connecting to, can next to you, even today. the music is like that. i have always had this global outlook. i connect with people globally. tavis: when you were a kid growing up in jamaica, listening to your neighbors radio, on the floor, listening to the radio, practicing songwriting, i assume that you never imagined it would coit be like this, -- that it would coit be like this -- quite be like this. >> i had a global outlook that i really wanted to capture the world. bui wanted the attention of the world, at least. i wanted that. i got that, but i am taking it to the next level now. tavis: you have no intention of stopping? >> oh, no,this is my role in life

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