ç >> i first read phil's book over a year ago. as interviewing him for a kind of semi weekly series i had onç the daily beast, and phil s one of the firstç people, maybe even the first person i spoke to, and he kind of nervously asked me if i would read his book.ç said, of course, and i was blown away by it right away. i've over the last decade -- i have read aç lot of the work tt has come another of the wars, and i always said i thought itç would -- the weirdness of re-entry into american life, and i was working on a novel alongside the story. very quickly the stories became most important thing to me for that reason, you come back from war, especially now because it's like less than one percent serve, so i'm from new york, i go back to new york and i'm one of the few veterans that people meet. and they would ask me, so, how is iraq going? what's -- and you feel like you can actually explain. you can sort of pontificate to them what iraq is, even though everybody kind of only sees this little small piece of it. and everybody

and it's not something i would sit down and necessarily read the way i would read a novel, but i would keep it around and read it. how do you describe this book? >> i just describe it as a kind of very opinionated reference book. if -- opinionated and noncomprehensive reference book because it doesn't cover everything. and, actually, that goes back to your earlier question. how we decided what was going to go in the book was really, it was, it wasn't a particularly, it wasn't a particularly great way to go about it, but it was really the only way i knew how to go about it because i'd never edited an encyclopedia-type book before. so what i did was make a list of people and things and ideas that should be in the book. i put them in alphabetical order, and i asked all the writers who were going to be working on the book to tell me what i might be missing in that list, and they suggested things. and then i read the dictionary, literally opened the dictionary and went through it to make sure we weren't missing words or ideas. but we missed a lot of things. in fact, after the book came out

elizabeth ward, i want to read her book. i compare her a breath of fresh and innocent and -- in the senate. kind of a logical successor to my good friend paul wellstone and a lot of good ways to want to get to know her better. i have met with a number of times. i want to read her book. you know, "flash boys," haven't had a chance to get all the way through "flash boys" yet again my long-standing and concern about the manipulation to market, manipulation of wall street. so that's kind of a heavy-duty stuff. the superintendent of the everglades national park in a book called "the swamp" to read which i can be because now i'm feeling more and more with park issues. another book on the grand canyon is recommended call polishing the jewel. so that's on the list. then when i'm done with work reading i relax. i know there's a couple of craig johnson books that haven't read. those are great. lee child, i'm still working my way through all the lee child books. jack reach her book. and james lee burke is also a favorite of mine. >> wha

decision making in that the tory was about the winter of 2008 in afghanistan which was just brutal i read stories about families in afghanistan living in villages who were selling their children to wealthy couples to be adopted and i suspect to be enlisted in some form of child labor but they are selling children to support the rest of their kids and provide a better life. as a father, i kind of thought about when i read that, i kind of thought about the kind of sophie's choice, you know, dilemma that is faced by a parent and how painful that must have been, that really happened, that real fathers have to make those decisions. >> kind of became one of the central emotions in the book. >> before you founded your foundation, before you were the world famous writer, before you were a doctor, you and your >> yeah. >> you were 14. >> yes. >> you talked about the pessimism. did you have that sense when your family realized after the soviet invasion, we can't go home again? it's too dangerous? >> yes. the prospects for us to return home were very bleak because when the soviets came, we knew this

then i started reading about plants, and then i started reading about rocks because we lived near there along the railroad tracks? rocks. and pretty soon i could identify any rock, tell you how it was formed, where it came from. still in the fifth grade at that time. i was the dummy, that's what they called me. one day the teacher came in, held up a big, black shiny wrong rock, can -- rock, can anybody tell he what this is? i waited for one of the smart kids to raise their hand, nobody did. i waited for one of the dumb kids, so i raised my hand, they looked, they couldn't believe carson's got his happened up, this is going to be good. [laughter] and the teacher called on he, and i said, mr. jake, that's ab sid january -- on sid january. this was silence in the room because it sounded good. and he said, that's right. i said it's formed from a volcanic eruption. everybody was staring at he. and, you know, but i was the most amazed person in the room because it dawned on me at that moment that i was no dummy. and that the reason i knew those answers is because i was reading those books.

every time i come back i mike the character in the book, if you haven't read the book yet, and i probably should ask who has read the book and who hasn't read the book? a few people have read it and if you haven't. the character in the book swears he will never come back to little rock ever again. that's one of the mysteries in the book, that you hopefully will learn why he never came back and swore he would never come back and that's why he never came back. but he is forced to come back to little rock to defend his best friend from high school who has just murdered a u.s. senator and the capitol rotunda that you probably can see from here. so that's what "when men betray" isabel. it's i think a fun book and it's a fun book because i had so much fun writing it. i want to give you a little bit of background of why i wrote it, how i got into this. it really is another story of what i say in the book is you can't plan life. you just run into it and in my case about four years ago i had a liver transplant. it was very dramatic. i didn't think i was going to make it and when i did, i told my k

when i read this i was on a cruise in the caribbean. i am hoping to get into valerie plame's in the same way and i fantasized about being the director. have your agent call someone in hollywood. to begin with, when you wrote this where you envisioning yourself as the director? is this the frustrated journalists who had become so entranced with this bureaucracies that was so responsible for managing the world's great secret, america's great secrets and pursuing national interest of the united states. i felt when i was reading graham's voice, i was hearing your voice. >> it goes without saying that any character in any novel is some way a projection of the author. that is what is fun about be a novelist. your voice in the woman character, in making scenes, places, experiences you never had. i told steve who i had in mind for this character and it was so preposterous, he couldn't possibly be. but speak about the character, i hope the has existence of anybody he is montalban become cia director after running the communications company so i

so i don't accept everything i read. st i know there was an attack here on the certain day at a certain hour. i know that when i read the "new york times" i'm reading the liberal flag ship of america. >> even in the news columns? even in the news reportage? >> of course it's in the news. in fact, that's where the main influence is. the editorials are so bad, so slanted, so childish, they have no influence. what influences everybody is the choices that the editors make what to put on the front page because that declares to the rest of the media who are the followers what's important. so, for example, if there is no coverage, essentially no coverage of the two years of missing emails by the irs in the by the irs in the times, ends up on base. that's a signal to the rest of the media not to cover it many the main influence is, of course, on the front page on what's chosen, what's not chosen. the war on women for example is a phrase you will see in the news pages all the time. they may put it in quotes, they may not. but that

i read dozens of books. e introduced me to the world of books and then i remember as though this were yesterday, although this was many years ago in may as the school year came to an end, she said to me, you are on your own. we talk about great people all the time. and the fact is that a good teacher has a chance for greatness that very few people who are defined as great will ever have because a great teacher can influence the lives and change the lives of people for the better. to this day, i don't know whether mrs. whitten did the same thing with other children or not. affected. i do know in my life, she was one of the decisive figures. i am certain that but for her i would have led a very different and probably much less meaningful life. >> what a pleasure? >> thank you. thank you. >> khaled hosseini author of the best selling novel "the kite runner" talks about his hopes for his homeland. >> no change will come to afghanistan unless it's initiated by the afghan's themselves... >> and the inspiration for

>> i read them all and read them numerous times. biographyn to writing , ages ago when i was a young at i wrote my dissertation columbia university and then on the hiddenok springs perfection, particularly the fascinating character, explosive when he walked into her room. a man of great forceful personality who saw himself as a literary general. >> henry james. >> quieter. much more shy in his own way. reticent, but at the same time, observant, amost tentatively observant writer i have ever encountered. through aat the world quiet, internal genius that was andtypically precise magnified specific qualities and characters he wanted to capture. he is a difficult writer for many contemporary readers. he went through various stages in which the pros changed. if you give me a chance to sit down with you friend to friend, teacher, mentor, someone who really wants to read henry james, i think i can blare out the -- their output claim that he is lucid. >> what about mark twain? >> the great american genius of colloquial language. leader ofame

as i say, when i was in city college, no one read de tocqueville. hardly anyone had ever heard of him. c-span: i--i don't know whether you can do this, but you--when you read a book like yours, and it's--as i--again, it's got 41 essays--you get a sense that there's these different strata in the united states, and there's a strata up here that pays attention to hayek and tocqueville and all these names, and then it comes down to a next level, goes all the way down to the average person. wh--h--what do you think of people that are just--the common person that never gets into this? how much of this influences them, and where--and how does it come through the system? >> guest: well, it'll influence them obliquely and indirectly. look, those people are my family, goodness. i mean, i've no problem with ordinary non-intellectual people. i have 34 first cousins, and so far as i know, i was the only intellectual in the family. but i love them all. they're fine people. but the ideas filter down through the educational system, through the media, through a few p

want to make sure i read every word. knew from other sources that did not haveds things happening that would concern my interest or the kind of biography i was writing. i can move along more efficiently. have done a lot on john quincy adams and charles francis adams. i want to show you video of jqa and the show we did on first ladies. >> for the first 10 years of their married life, john and abigail lived at home. is where they raise their children. this is the birthplace of their second child who became the sixth president of the united states. is important because the link between she and john adams would be letter writing and he was provided a window to what was happening back in the colony of massachusetts during the revolutionary war. abigail would report to john during the battle of bunker hill june 17, 1775. she took her son and would watch the battle of bunker hill with her son and report to john adams of the fires. she was literally the eyes of the revolution and john adams was at the second continental congress

i read all those animal books. then i started reading about plants and the mr. reading about rocks because we didn't have a railroad -- because we lived along the railroad tracks. presume to identify any rock, how was formed home -- how a was formed. one day the teacher came in, held at the big rock and sickeningly to do with this is. i never raised my hand. i waited for one of the smart kids to raise their hand. nobody did. i waited for one of them kids to raise their hand. nobody -- celebrities by name. ground. they couldn't believe, this is going to be good. the teacher called on me, and i said that's at city in? there was silence in the room. a lot of close down its the water and the elements -- everybody was staring at me. but i was most amazed person in the room because it dawned on me at that moment that i was no dummy. and that the reason i knew those answers because i was reading those books. and from that point forward you couldn't get a book out of my hand but my mother would say put the book down and eat your food. it didn't matter. it completely tra

i read "war and peace" may be 15 times i have not counted but each time they comes alive for me in aew way. that is what a classic does it grows with you in changes with you. you have a relationships and each time i have encountered this book is a new book 2008 by a game tuesday in a new way again coming through serious financial crisis i will not give you the details of that crisis you have to read the book but it as if the bottom had dropped out so some of my most basic assumptions of the world were challenged. and i realized because i was reading "war and peace" at the time because i was finishing another book at the time and it suddenly struck me this is a book about a society going through a crisis.p1b echoes with rushes wars in 1812 that people's lives are turned upside down by the forces of war with spiritual confusion in its those characters are asking how to find fulfillment or happiness in such troubled times? that is the question i was asking personally in 2008 as many of us were in and that we're asking today. so it is a classic for our time. i also realize the road a boo

but i read it the first time, i thought it was pretty terrific.think -- anyway, so what do all these people have this common? they're troublemakers this their environment, they're disruptive in some way or another, they have problems with their environment all of which is very useful this describing the environment. they're all characters this situations. in situations. beyond that -- >> what is it about you that is drawn to that specific profile? >> you know, it's funny, malcolm and i have done this once before a long time ago. you won't remember because there were six people in a barnes & noble in new york. the blind side came out, and you were perplexed that all my books seemed to be the work of, bp#r(p&ly, someone who has radical hostility towards the world around him, and you couldn't understand because i had rich parents, i was raised by people who loved me -- >> look at you with your blond hair. >> and then i'm -- it was what is, where does this hidden neurosis come from, is basically your question. [laughter] and i don't know if i answered

i'm not going to say i read every single word, i think i read 95% of it. it was luminous. -- voluminous. it could take you days to get through but. most of the material contained in those volumes were testimony from other hearings. opinions. memorandums that had been secured from one place or another. hearsay evidence. materials that would not be admissible in a court of law. testimony and the affidavits and the materials that we consider to be a such that it would be admissible in the court of law. and something which we the american people could count on for its validity. i just don't believe that the contents of those 39 volumes can be judged in that manner. we had nine people appeared before this committee. we had some very important witnesses, although there were some very important ones that we didn't have. two or three of those witnesses were exceptionally candid and valuable to these hearings. did anht mr. colson excellent job in presenting his point of view to our committee, and in covering a great deal of ground that we needed to know about befor

and i sit and read. i have a conversation with my husband and because we are now almost forced to do a lot of social media promotion and just gets consuming. at some point i feel like it's sensory over load i can't handle any more. to me reading is that mistake, that relaxation. >> schieffer: very well said. this was really fun. i knew it would be. i'm glad you all could come this morning. i'll be back in just a minute to a tribute to a real american hero and author who told us about him. >> schieffer: speaking of books and authors we note the matting of louis zamperini. destined to become one of american literature's most memorable figures because he was in life one of america's true heroes. when he died last week at 97, millions of us had come to know him as the central figure in "unbroken" one of the best selling books of all time by laura hillenbrand whose own story is as remarkable as the man she wrote about. as a teenager zamperini ran in the 1936 berlin olympics, while he was there he managed to st

and football, don't like to read. >> it shouldn't -- that was my frustration. iried people would think it was a football book. a few people who do read or write football, as they really don't want a chick flick in the middle of their football. i felt i liked shoving those two things together. it did miss its market and the movie solved that problem. i liked it. i felt very good at the end. >> talk about this one. i understand -- let's get to the book at least a little bit. talk a little bit about the origins of this -- i am guessing this grew out of the peace you wrote for vanity fair. >> two minutes. the russian computer program caught my eye, this was 2009, the program left goldman sachs for the trading firm and mail himself the code and a couple days later the fbi -- saw this in the newspaper. a year or so later sentenced seven years in jail and the first thing i wondered was y. on the back of this financial crisis goldman had so much to do with, the only person who went to jail, the person goldman sachs wanted to go to jail. when goldman wanted to go to jail

reading this summer? >> you know, used to think that i needed to read one book at a time. eventually as i have gotten all that i am reading multiple books at the same time. i have a number of books on my nightstand one of which have almost done with some one of which i am in the middle command one of which is next up the book am almost done with this public about a world war one. it is an amazing book. it is not a new book, but my daughter is studied abroad recommended it to me. it is a fascinating read command i realize as an american i know frighteningly little about world war one plan also we think of the great war. and only when you go to your head go to some of the history museums in europe he realizes how much more tragic and a lot of voice and brittle world war one was. western civilization in history. that is the book i am almost done with. the book i am in the middle of this david and goliath. a very interesting book. i love reading about unusual stories but i am finding that interesting. always looking for ways to apply it to my business. perhaps a little bit of a

i got him to sign the book and i came home and i read it. and then i donated to the university library. why would i give away a book that cost me extra money but i think it's a book every student in south carolina should read. it's a book that in its essence is about how one person can make a difference not only in our state that throughout our nation. especially if that's an individual who is working for deep-seated values and with great integrity. it is such a pleasure to be here. what you may not know is that one point in his career he too was a teacher of tenth grade? >> that's right. >> it takes a special person to teach tenth grade. i know, that's why i teach college. i know there has been a long tradition valuing education. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> at this time we would like to ask representative bill clyburn to come and introduce the congressman for me. >> thank you reverend slaughter. ladies and gentlemen is truly an honor and a pleasure today to introduce our congressman, our author and a public servant. we were for to

sometimes i read a paper and ink book, sometimes i read on my kindle. i will do this on my kindle in order to -- in order to do this. >> i think it's interesting that you said, which i was not aware of, that there are different behaviors based on -- you're saying that the top ten books that are read as books and the top ten books that are read as e-books are very, very different lists. >> well, "usa today" is supposed to put everything together in one list, which is why i was referring to their list. >> oh, okay. >> so it's -- >> kindle does not change my -- a reader's behavior necessarily? >> well, sure, kindle just looks at e books off of amazon, their list. >> fine. >> e-books, paper and ink from any place. >> what do you think it's going to take to get the big five to participate in the netflix model of books? >> do you know, i just haven't seen much innovation coming from the big five lately. when luke at how publishing has changed, the driver has been amazon since the day they introduced the kindle. and they need to innovate. they wine about the ch

and i know that the iraq war is coming in the manuscript and i cannot wait to read that. ut i wonder -- several times in the manuscript, you talked about the proxy wars happening elsewhere. some fellowship has argued that when we think about the wars that are happening elsewhere, we need to think of the cold war as a factor, but not as a puppet master for what else is going on in the world. bringing the cold war and -- cold war in or bringing other places into our thinking of the cold war seems to complicate the narrative of what else is going on in the world, the proxy wars, but also to think about -- but also to how we think about the cold war itself. i have been doing research on south africa and as we think about what is going on in the 1980's, we can think of south africa as something that was understood, the events in south africa and the slow end to apartheid was something that was understood by reagan and was also something else altogether. when you talk about the cold war and reagan's relationship to it, south africa is barely mentioned. of course, you cannot do e

caller: i went and and i asked the question after i read the magazine. i don't know the name of the science magazine. after i read that, i checked it on the internet. host: no specific websites? caller: no, i just asked the question -- can you tell me this or that and i have been there many times over this. what is really sad about this is that our government, if you go on the internet, will not give you the information of how much we have tilted on our axis since 2007. the american academy for the advancement of science which is the nations largest audio scientists believes that climate change is due to human activity and there is a similar consensus around it as there is the link between smoking tobacco, lung disease, and heart disease. it's interesting to note that there have been in some places an increase in earthquakes but there is some suggestion and the scientists are not clear that the increased use of hydraulic fracking to produce shale oil and gas may, and i say may, the links to that. in ohio and oklahoma this is prevalent but the science is n

>> i knew for sure when i read the transcript of the june 23, 1972 tape recording of president nixon's conversation. i read that shortly after the president released it on august 5. >> evan davis served on the house judiciary staff, looking into the impeachment inquiry of richard nixon. thank you for being with us from new york. we will continue our programming next week as we focus on the resignation of richard nixon. 40 years later, we have a chance to look back at the house judiciary committee and the opening statements from 1974. that is next sunday at 8:00 eastern time, 5:00 for those of you on the west coast to recruit join us next sunday 8 p.m. eastern when we will feature a selection of opening statements from the house judiciary committee as they began hearings in 1974 to consider articles of impeachment against richard nixon. committee willt join us to give a behind-the-scenes account of the deliberations. you're watching american history tv. all we can, every weekend, on c-span3. >> each week, real america brings you a film that helps tell the story of the 20th century. up n

home and i read it. i donated to the university library. why would i give away a book that cost me extra money and a lot of effort? i think it's a book every student in south carolina should read. it's a book that in its essence is about how one person can make a difference not only in our state but throughout our nation, especially if that's an individual who is working with decency and values and great integrity. it's such a pleasure to have you here. what you may not know is one point in his career he was a teacher of tenth grade. it takes a special person to teach tenth grade. i know, that's why i teach college. [laughter] so i know there has been a long tradition of valuing education by the congressman. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> at this time we would like to ask representative bill clyburn to come and introduce the congressman formally. >> ladies and gentlemen it's an honor and a pleasure today to introduce our congressman, our author and public servant. we refer to his -- referred to him

i enjoyed our presentation also supervisor mar but i read your report over in great detail he interpreted what you're report said he i want to know if you agree the way i read it there was your report comparing the same items in the basket not talking about on expensive item at one store but 17 percent more cost to consumers for the same can of coffee let's say the same product as an independence as opposed to formula retail i read you had a 9 perris more money spent locally by independents as opposed to formula retail recirculating in the economy your conclusion it looks like there was a netted economics impact in a positive manner with a establishment on that basis alone; is that correct and yeah. we felt the local premium for the local retailers was the generous the largest possible premium to support for the local retailers and we picked that because the data was not directly on point but the best data on the subject but to answer your question yes when you comba compare the net economic impact of a directing spent on formula retail with the same amount costing the consumer more out o

also that led me to sort of become sort of to learn how to read people. i had to know how to read people to know how to respond and not get called a you know what by her, by others. so all the power of observation and reading in between the lines and all that sort of made me a ride in a way. it may be sit back and what device do after all except record and look at the world and try to see it from a different angle. she plays a big role in that sense. and also again, the homophobia, there's always this constant tension between us. the idea that she was on the one hand a loving caretaker, which she was because she lived with us for 20 something years, and i was around her a lot, but at the same time there's this other dark side. but it was really interesting to sort of explore that in the book because i've done so in my poetry. but in the book, in the memoir, in the pros my grandmother comes across as very carefully. she comes across as a wonderful funny person which she was on the surface. it's real because poetry sort of digs into more of, digs right away i

a script and i read it it was thirty pages long it was one of the most incredible scripts that i'd ever read it was for a young woman in her twenty's in the military and i thought on never gets a play a role like this and she said well look i want you to play it and i said yes absolutely she said great we start shooting the day after tomorrow and this is like thirty pages of story monologues and i had no idea anything about the military the way a soldier should stay and any idea i only knew what about rock in afghanistan and i did it all you niggas recently been photographed. g.q. there it is there's a photo that doesn't slug fuku is it was photo shopped right right and that means they all had to be took away blemishes why was that what was the big deal is in the dome all the time well that was my point was you know everybody here deciding that fans criticized it many people on on the web criticized it and said you know you guys are supposed to be role models for young women how could you do this that was photo shopped and really the problem that people had was that it was sexu

i would not read that. i agree with jeff. he has done it effectively for one tiny instance with gorbachev. visit to the united nations, his speech, his popularity in new york city, the crowds coming out. a wonderfully orchestrated public relations to or for america and the world to witness. it did change the perception of the world about gorbachev and made him kind of a rallying figure that we could say, he wants to do the right thing. the generalthat secretary of the soviet union expected that he was going to have ongoing communications landing implemented for probably months, but an earthquake happened in armenia. it disrupted his cadence. you will find thousands of examples of president bush where there were hurricanes or or lee at whyires are dying, or his mother getting sick, kennebunkport denning hit -- beingrfect storm hit by the perfect storm. there were lots of distractions that came in the midst of responsibility. you could not -- there are not enough volumes to be able to be read by anybody. >> including very perso

i will read it back to you. in blinded by might i am not calling for retreat from the public square. i ask only for a more realistic view of what the matted things government can achieve and the unlimited power of god's king them. colet and listing in a better army with superior weapons and by the way, isn't it inconsistent for conservatives in one breath to criticize big government and then in another to employ it to enact their agenda? what are some -- that is a very important point. what are some specific policy areas or issues you see in washington where conservatives decry big government but then seek it out? >> take the last administration, president george w. bush inaugurated one of the biggest government programs ever in the prescription drug benefit. no child left behind. more money for public education. i call this turn to washington as a first resource instead of a last resort, kind of perversion of the 20 third psalm. the government is my keeper, i shall not want, i walk to the valley of the shadow of

have you read her any of these, by the way? >> guest: yes, i have. 've read them quite a few of the letters. they love alexander graham bell's letter to his daughters. alexander graham bell wrote a letter to his daughters about a trip he was on, and he sends -- he had seen a stingray, and he sends his daughters the lips of the stingray and the tail. and he sends them through the mail. and he was a wonderful educator of children and an educator of the deaf. but in teaching children, he felt strongly that they should learn by doing. and here's this example of him -- he wants his children to see what a stingray looks like, and he puts it in the mail to them. c-span: also, there's a letter to his daughter, marian "daisy" bell, when she was 21. >> guest: yes. c-span: get your book, if you don't mind. >> guest: no. what page? c-span: page 161. the reason why, i want you to help me read these jokes. >> guest: oh, the corny jokes? >> guest: yes. what was the point of the jokes? >> guest: he was very busy crunching numbers, so to speak, working on data that ha

he decides to make those tapes public is a very interesting document because it had within it, as i read it as a lawyer, the tone of the president off lawyer, mr. st. clair, being very concerned that the fax had not been accurately stated to the court or to the house judiciary in certain important respects. it one sentence from reading the document, perhaps the president was willing to correct the record and turn these butments over immediately, senses pressure from the president off lawyer, mr. st. clair. mr. st. clair -- he is now dead. he never wrote a memoir or gave an interview. we do not know for sure. it is my belief that he played a role in getting these tapes made public quickly. once they were public, everyone saw that the tape of june 23 was a smoking gun, but the president knew that mitchell, as head of the committee for the reelection of the president, was aware of this break-in before it happened. agreedt the president with hold him and's suggestion and reiterated that the a cia should be told to tell the fbi that this is something the fbi should stay out of. that strategy

i read on airplanes, read at home. i read in my office and various places. i actually, like i said, i sat down and read this whole thing in one sitting. it got my attention. so thank you for writing the book and thanks for being so honest and transparent about it. >> i got to say this, man. there are people who get -- who make money making sure you don't know. there are people who get paid, making sure you don't understand. and my thing was i'm going to tell it. i want to tell everything that i know. because me and my friends, even in the boo i talk about me and my friend, we made a vow to each other. if you learn something that i should know, tell me. and if i learn something that you should know, i will tell you. that got me here today. >> love it. love you. all right. tell everybody i said hello. >> thank you, sir. >> that's our show for tonight. thanks for watching. and as always, keep the faith. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> i'm tavis smiley. join me for a conversation next time with thomas katz and philip bailey. that's next time. we'll see

so i think rita is going to read that for us. thank you very much. >> yes i am, thank you. so the with requested action is now that we've ordered on the adopted budget that we now vote on the -- that the board of education approve the fiscal year 2014, 2015 adopted budget for the san francisco unified school district and the san francisco county of education in the official state form [inaudible] in accordance of california education code sections 33129 and 42127. >> thank you very much. we have no public speakers signed up. any comments from the board of superintendent. i think we're ready. >> mr. haney. >> yes. >> maufas. >> yes. >> wynns. >> i. >> fewer. a: yes. >> yes. >> six ist. s. >> may [inaudible] for fiscal year 2014, 2015? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. rita, i think you're reading it again. >> thank you. subject, the resolution [inaudible] the requested action is that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district and the san francisco county office of education approve the approved expenditure proposed expenditure of state revenues a

another thing that happened the other day is a question i read is a good one. i wanted to know whether counsel could advise me as to whether or not the articles of impeachment should be specific. should each article involve a singular subject? i thought it should. counsel never opened their mouths. we never got that far. the chairman hit the gavel and under the table that went, so there has never been a decision even on that point. as i understand the law, the articles we have been handed tonight don't fit what the law requires because here you have a general article of impeachment, everything including the kitchen sink. from the best information available to me and some of the best legal minds in the world, this should not be. i wanted to know but i got no answers. i have consistently said the chairman has done a good job. i think he has. i complimented the staff and counsel, majority and minority, but there has never been much difference between those two. i meant what i said then as i mean it tonight. but things started to change three weeks ago. three weeks

[laughter] and i read your blogging yesterday. abor but not their reward for their reward was the city. so i started to rub i ask that that is the interesting way and do you have any other thoughts? >> okay. i understand. >> but i did take their reward dues the city was the interesting comment. >> the blogging was about the lions gate that was out as the writer had you manage your own expectations? are you so psyched up? over the years i have had my heart broken so many times but the bottom line for me was you cannot base, i will not tell that story. you cannot base your self-esteem on what other people say or their response in their real world. you can do something great and it goes nowhere but you do something terrible you are the toast of the town. i was just talking about we are entitled to our labor but not the fruits of our neighbor. i don't jack amazon or that sort of stuff but i asked myself, am i happy? to live live up to my expectations? if i answer yesu9÷ the end it is the thing that it is its own reward. it is not as th

some of the stories i was reading and reading what of the stories in here as i was reading the book that was reading things to inform me about technical matters to get the details right but also stuff to get the emotional things right sometimes that was more ra or the diary of a country priest like the brilliant the egyptian novel >> earlier talking about individuals that were tiny mine was especially tiny and when i first started writing after having been in the marine corps i read dozens and dozens of the books i read the rand reports but i did not know what was happening outside of very small area of operations so you were an officer. >> but i did the exact same thing i was reading construction reports and a lot of memoirs and i talked to a lot of marines who might know something about the subject. i had to do a lot of research to try to get it is right as possibleyíc. >> the things they said that war is the enemy and also on the forefront submerging with this technology with the quest for world dominance? >> well, i don't know. i think have you answer that question depends on what we