mean, was it seen as -- >> i thought it was taken well. i thought nasa at that time was about as good a management team as you could get. because they expected everybody to tell how they felt, to express their concerns, to you know, reasonably and effectively say what they felt. but then once the decision was made, they also expected you to pitch in. when they made the decision i pitched in. it seems the me that's the ideal way for management to work stho once a decision was made to go ahead with the eva, i guess the crew really did push for a space suit with a new special kind offet coulding, a go -- a g 4c with a cover layer. were you involved in that, the transition to a newer suit? >> i was not. >> the mission when you flew on gemny 7. a 14-day mission, do you remember what your thoughts were when they said to you 14 days? >> the gem my 7 was looked upon in the astronaut group as not much of a pilot's mission, just sort of a medical experiment, which it was. and we got the mission, as you know, i think one of the great -- one of the gre

nobody knew who i was. i had a network of friends and i was able to raise enough money to get my mental message out. the next thing i knew a lot of bigger names had fallen by the wayside and i was left standing with ronald reagan. the towering figure that he was. he dusted me off somewhere afted not for very long, he dusted me off somewhere after michigan and before california. brian: what did you learn? i know it is a big question, those eight years you're vice president? pres. bush: loyalty, government, foreign affairs. everybody ridicules the vice presidency, there is a lot of substance to it provided you work for a menu respect and who will delegate certain responsibilities to you. in my case, regulatory reform, leaving antiterrorist studies and things of this nature. in return, i owed him my loyalty. and i was lucky, because ronald reagan, when i ran for president after eight years as his vice president, i would not have moved away from him if it had meant the entire election. i would not have said, i k

>> i was. that even today, 30 years later, i still find myself accepting, the level that politics plays in corporations and in other life. i'm much more of an entrepreneurial guy. believed that you do our best, and if it's good enough, they recognize it. rewards, and i've disdained the politics. maybe if i was good at it i would have more respect for it. one, i admit i was never good. secondly, i was always naive well.it as i didn't recognize how much weight it carried relative to the right answers. >> when pete conrad came over to direct the skylab office, did you say to yourself, this is it, to move on?r me >> no. not immediately, because i loved with portunity to work pete. pete is a really capable guy. was knew that if pete there, there was no way that they were ever going to make to me.ck up it's tough enough to make wally back up gus. here is a pecking order in these things. like toorder, i didn't much. the accomplishments, i did. good.was really pete had all the qualities it took to do a

i was like, mike. [laughter] by the time it was time to leave court, i was leaving in a bus with shackles. mike was in tears. he could not believe i got a two-year sentence. i was arrested in new york for popping a wheelie. it was initially a traffic ticket. they charged me with an f-1 felony. it was not really a charge. the judge still sentenced me on that. on theed a bag of weed ground that wasn't mine. there was police contact. it is a violation of probation. you don't have to commit a crime. do anything.e to you just have to have contact with the police. freddy: mike, tell us how you and meek became buddies. a pretty normal friendship amongst boys. there was a day that changed both our lives. we meant for or five years ago at a basketball game. my daughter is talking to meek's old girlfriend. what do you do? he was asking me a thousand different questions. >> how do you make all that money? [laughter] michael: how do you do this or that deal. he kind of reminded me of myself. i didn't go to high sch

i was and he knew who simona was. ster simona, can i pray for you? i said, yes. of course. we were given sitting together in the car. there was so much tension. the moment that gentleman got on the phone and started praying, for us, it naturally brought us together. you know? [applause] and thatopoulos: here, just thinking of it, i teared up in the car, god was in that car. god was with us. thats basically a eulogy light comes after the darkest. -- darkest period. miracle, i was able to get out of today's of my present sentence, and i am here with everyone here. that prayer brought us together. i guess my wife -- kissed my wife. i held my head high and went into prison, into the unknown, with courage and strength. me, was one of the most beautiful experience -- beautiful moments of my life, and my marriage with my wife. mr. cernovich: on that note, one last question for you first and then you, what would you do differently if you can live your life differently? ms. magiante: i don't have many regrets. i never regret wh

by the time i was sixteen seventeen i was fully engulfed in the drug game and it is only was so big it was only seven point five square miles so a lot of rumors a stylus britain along to the train detectives back then they had to take to that one high school and they kind of got to know me very well and i guess they relayed that information to the trade narcotics and they started watching me and follow me around or stuff like that and i remember the first time that they that they raided my house i wasn't there but my mother was there and i was i think i just turned seventeen and um they locked her up and i got a phone call saying that you know your mother was locked up and they want you to turn yourself in. so i ventured i turned myself in a seventeen a let my mother go and i first time you ever going to joe i went to you found. because i was an eighteen i was only supposed to do when we were still in high school and we missed the prom. when i got out i remember the detective telling me that you know as soon as i turned eighteen and it was going to come back and give me and if i don't

and i was driving this corvette. the car i got was a station wagon. i had a family. and i needed a station wagon. and that's what i got. >> how did your life change when you became an astronaut? >> well, i done think it really changed in a way, we got to be a little bit of a celebrity. but we didn't even do anything at first. and i can recall the very first time i went back to milwaukee and i gave a talk to the high school people. and i just went right to the school. and in the back of the room, after i was giving my talk t mayor of milwaukee was there. and he was sort of mad that i didn't stop by and pay respects to the mayor. all this protocol i knew nothing about at that time. and i thought you know, heck, i haven't been in space. and people are asking me what's going on and what's happening and all this sort of stuff. there was a little bit of false idle at the time. >> what was happening to you during those mercury days ? >> during the mercury days. i got down into the space program about the time wally was flying. before he moved down to texas. the first thing

ironically, i was the last one up. my responses are pretty good but after so many security briefings, i don't think i did get up. i was blown back but not by the window. most of the wounds of the wounded were were from the chest up and very bloody. i returned to the bomb site the next day because once i had left the building with my colleagues, we got first aid, and then i went to our building being used as a crisis center. the next morning i returned to what was a tomb of an embassy. i was given by our security engineer a hard hat he had made overnight with the seal. we got through this together as a community. this is the hat of one of the marine security guards who was on duty at the time. these are the logs in both of our embassies the security guards kept. ambassador on board when i arrived on august the seventh and when i went to the meeting with the department of commerce, it notes ambassador on shore. i swam across the parking lot. what this shows is that we were in business all the time. john: it is striking, f

i didn't know who he was. i know the vietnamese prime minister and this guy and the state department -- he presented himself as a man of the world who could connect me to every country you could imagine, including russia. and it wasn't a secret that trump wanted some connection with russia at the geopolitical level at that time. so i said let me take him with a grain of salt and actually see what he can provide in terms of connecting the campaign to various diplomats both western and russia, just like my job description entailed me to do. and he told me after meeting me in rome that he was profiling me. what is your religion? rur sympathetic to this party, to that country? it was more of a profile instead of a, hey, you're interesting and maybe we could work something out where i could help you and you can help me. it was more profile. but when you're 28 and not in these circles, you don't know what is happening until you look back, right. so he tells me -- >> and you feel important. you're a young man meeting

i was shocked. went over there with all the biases that one could have given germany's history, and i was pleasantly surprised when i got over there. i saw they were basically ensuring that the moment a person came in contact with the system, that they came out healthy and whole. what can we do here, or if there is somebody doing it here in a smart way that we should be paying attention to? when i saw the panel was on re-entry, i was worried this could be seen as a bucket. now we want to help them get back on their feet, and that has been growing more. but the problem is this is all interrelated. what toby came said is exactly right. the best way to improve re-entry is to not have entry. the people suffering from substance abuse or victimized by violence, if you can avoid them there going to prison, you need to do that. but with group like ours who has been working on sentencing for years, the length of the sentence matters. all the programming in the world is not going to make up for what happened w

the way i am is wrong. it wasa very mixed, i had a very mixed emotion with this story that i also really loved. grace stayed with me throughout my teenage years, into adulthood it was only recently that i got another copy of the book for my daughter. when i was reading it to her, i started crying because i remembered the feeling i had my entire life. this was somebody who i wanted to be so bubbly but very recently i realized, the way i am is fine. that was a lifelong process. revisiting the story and seeing how we differ, it wasn't a place of feeling inadequate anymore, not a place of shame but it was me, this is the way i am and i'm great. this is her, and my daughter and my daughter is great. it's a full circle moment but i don't think i would have come to if it wasn't for lori asking for this essay. it allowed me to tap into emotions that i hadn't thought about for years. [applause] >> i agree. lori is like the beacon. i hadn't thought about it and i dwindled this essay, this timestamp of when i saw myself. i t

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and around that time i was -- i really was, "i must be an actor."ng, i would take a shower and the door would steam up and i'd say, "please, god, let me be an actor." but then i'd wipe it off because i still hadn't told them. >> you didn't want anybody to read it? >> no, i did not. >> so, in the meantime, music, you were -- i mean, as you said, you started getting lessons at eight. and then, didn't you make your own band when you about 15 or something? >> well, here's what happened. i didn't make my own band. i -- because it was this -- well, it was -- you know, i was playing at home. i'd gotten on to jazz a little bit and could play a thing or two. [ piano music plays ] "misty" was something that i learned -- it was my dad's favorite song. and i started to -- i got the idea that i wanted to call cocktail lounges around pittsburgh. and i did, and i got a couple of gigs. so, it really wasn't a band. no, it was just me going to some cocktail lounge when i was 15. my parents drove me. and there would be a piano in a kind of a cheesy place in pittsburgh

so unless i was hungry i was hungry to work i was hungry to be free. and had the ability to change my life around so all those stains. made me a good employee in minutes when he dismissed his mind up in food and he was going to go if you know go into business for yourself in a salad all starting i just really felt that i had what it took to be awesome but know when to be successful. so i quit my job and i was fully fledged into business and i did. i believe i froze year business i made about thirty some thousand dollars or more for a shit that. i remember a vest i'm back into the business and borrowed tools a mile ladders some growing the business and i think my second year i read about he some. third year i did about one hundred some thousand some stall he was surely progressing so now i'm up to half a million dollars next to normal to say i want to thousand miles. in the early two thousand nine hundred ninety nine or early two thousand my family went over the million dollar more. so while one home i never thought that i would call a million dollar bu

twenty-eight years old and i was about to die. my life would never be when i imagined i would never get married or gently pass surrounded by loved ones. instead my story was coming to an end on a dusty runway in the jungle thousands of miles from my home. i know it's possible to articulate hard urgently aware you become of the fleeting nature of existence when you are confronted of the end. i laid there what felt like a in trinity with the encroaching darkness of my final thoughts i saw my 87 year old grandmother the matriarch of my family all i could think of was i will not make grandma live through my funeral. not if i can help it. i couldn't bear the vision of her sitting in front of my casket. if not for my reverence for her i don't believe i would be alive today. she encouraged me to summon my will to move heavily i dragged my shattered body neither my doctors nor i could explain how i managed it i pulled myself up by my feet stumbling around to take shelter in the baggage compartment. i survived. survival against those type o

at a crossroads i wasn't sure what i was going to do and i felt a little bit lost and i was inspired and so i went to the soviet union with my sister on this week trip a school trip that she was going on and i thought it would just clear my head i can come back and regroup and lo and behold everything that i saw there in leningrad with force and then the rest of people i met changed my life so it was just the perfect time of me being young enough not really understanding it who i was not understanding life and being very naive and all of a son i meet these people that are so inspiring i mean i think it would be similar if she is some young person here at that time and eighty's happened to be friend and hang out with bob dylan or david bowie you know i was just blessed to me the artist in leningrad were just as inspiring and exciting and as these these famous western musicians so for me it was just fate now john as you said just a moment ago every time you traveled to the soviet union you used to bring all sorts of musical supplies which were difficult to find in letting back down but

i was there in a tough time. i saw this advantage of -- the disadvantage of a closed society, but i appreciate there are far more human liberties and rights in china today than when we lived there. i learned the family was still a strong entity in china. was,t in 1970, whatever it 1973i guess, 1974, thinking the family is falling apart. all the kids have been sent to the countryside to be indoctrinated. the minute i got there i saw how wrong that was. i saw the beginning of growth, real growth, but closed, society was closed. you can go in a person's home. --ple were scared to follow i learned a lot about the blessings of freedom, our freedom. brian: you fly into houston international airport and your name is on the airport. you drive dollar medicine highway in washington, there it is, george bush, cia. there is a major conference going on as we tape this interview for the cia. that was your next stop. how long were you there? brian: i was all -- pres. bush: i was only there one year, and it was the most fascinati

under their wing, and i was walking in the snow and all i saw was a bunch of dead bodies in the ditch. so every time someone could not walk anymore, the germans would shoot him and throw him in the ditch. i told these two guy, i cannot walk anymore, i'm too tired, i'm too weak, and basically, what they did, they forced me to walk, they said no, you got to walk, they grabbed me by my shoulders and by my arms and forced me to walk and i did make, make it through the death march. we did get on a train, we travelled for two days in an open train, these were open coal car trains, and we ended up at this concentration camp here in austria, after two days. and next slide. this was a large camp called matthousen. matthousen was a very serious, very huge, one of the first pick austrian camps in austria. and matthousen was not a jewish camp, it was an international camp. french prisoner, belgium prisoner, polish, russian, american prisoners, american army prisoners, it was a huge camp. very dangerous camp. tremendous amount of disease and hunger. next slide. one of the famous quarries, stone qu

i always thought chris was a little older than i, but he was younger than i. >> he acted a bit older. he was the boss. >> he was the boss of the flight instructors, i know that. >> how many members of the gemini flights? let's say gemini 8. >> frank borman, his wife jo and my wife and i had to do a southeast asia tour for them in washington. we went to japan, we went to korea, we went to thailand, met all these leaders of the countries, met marcos in the philippines. went into australia, of course. had a birthday party. frank borman's birthday is two days behind mine. frank's is april 12, mine is april 14. he was the one that was lost at sea sometime later. we got through customs, which was a nightmare in those days, still is, in fact. next thing i get a call on the beach. the admiral calls and says, armstrong and dave scott have landed in the pacific. they want you to take the airplane back and pick them up. wait. i told frank, you got the gals, you got all the loot. take them back to the mainland and we'll go to okinawa and pick up neil armstrong and george scott who had a problem w

i was elated. i thought this was great. , i had already spent two weeks many space with borman, i didn't want to spend another week going around the earth again. this is fantastic. on the way back when it was my irn to sit in the backseat, drew the apollo 8 insignia, the , the shaped saying with territory and moon. >> that happened because of cold war considerations, did it not? mr. lovell: oh, yeah. well, two things occurred. the lunar module wasn't ready and the lunar module was supposed to go up there and be tested out. and also, as you probably know and it's well known now we had intelligence information that the russians were going to put people around the moon. they were really attempting to land people on the moon. but -- >> let's stop there and we'll pick it up. okay. this is tape two. james lovell junior. 8 ande discussing apollo the politics behind apollo 8. the russians are going to try to land on the moon and trump everything america has done. mr. lovell: actually, the russians, believe

that i was just this. silly girl from los angeles very naive. and that he was the real rocker said that that moment changed my whole life and correct me if i'm wrong but i think you were twenty four years old at the time cali girl in drab soviet reach was a feeling in oxymoron the source but and even bigger paradox was how this doll soviet reality was able to produce something that was so free spirited and so genuine as the leningrad proxy how do you yourself explain that phenomena you know it was incredible and of course our first three and half days was in moscow where we didn't know anybody so we were on the usual tours with the group and we looked around and even though there were some interesting things the same basis because the two own things it looked very cold people didn't look happy they were wearing dark colors they were all rushing through the streets and i thought wow this is this this is not a great place you know i would never come back again what i found out later when i went to leningrad a

i don't think that was alzheimer's, i think that was sign of age. the integer your question is no, but i saw he was concerned about memory loss. i hope all old people are. steve: when was the last time you saw him? rep. rohrabacher: i went to his office in los angeles. a couple times. i talked to him. we had a really wonderful talk, but i was horrified when he told me he had had an accident. he went like this and showed me there was a hole in his head. he had been on a horse. [phone ringing] uh oh. mr. president, sorry, i am into an interview right now, i have to call you back later. [laughter] the president obviously. said he hadhe been on a horse. he had been riding horses since his mid-to-late 70's, and he fell off the horse. there was some liquid in their and they cut a hole in his head to drain it. i did not know if that is what they should have done. i did not know if this was a real problem. having a hole in your head at any age is a problem. that was the last time i saw him alive. steve: why did you decide to run for the house? rep. rohrabach

well, i actually was very surprised. i did not think i was going to be a good student. ew i did well in math in high school. i was not absolutely sure how i well i would do in college. it turns out that not only did i graduate summa cum laude, but i had only two b's, in shop and gym. david: shop and gym. so, ok so -- alan: i got a's in everything else, and no one was more surprised than i. david: you were called by many a the maestro. did you ever think people were giving you too much credit for being such a great maestro of the economy? alan: i was getting much too much of the credit for what was actually going on. and i said, don't worry about it. it will come out on the other side. ♪ ♪ reagan: it is my intention to nominate dr. alan greenspan to a four-year term as chairman of the federal reserve. alan: i just wanted to say that i am deeply grateful to the president for this opportunity to serve my country in one of its most sensitive economic posts. david: so you graduate summa cum laude from nyu, you have given up your music career. what did you do when you graduate

i was lucky. ronald reagan, when i ran for president after eight years, i would not have moved away from him if it meant the election. i would not have jumped sideways and say, i have known all along he should have done this differently. i would not do that and i didn't feel that way. iran-contra thing. fortunately, that was resolved to the satisfaction of the american people. if i'd have been there, i wouldn't have done this. you can't do that and live with yourself in terms of loyalty and character. brian: who taught you loyalty? pres. bush: my mom and dad. brian: who taught them loyalty? where does it come from? pres. bush: in those days, people were not afraid to teach values in school. i do not know whether they got it in school or from their family. they had values. they values were not just tell the truth. values like, be kind to people. help somebody when he is hurt. values like, give the other guy credit. those served me well when i was president. brian: were you surprised in the recent bo

i was hired at the u.s. army center of military history to the book which became "staying the course," which is the third operational combat in the vietnam war series. and it was published about a ago. in fact, we had the opening book event here, in the national archives. in the course of doing the value h i came to really the photographic archival history. he images, the film from the vietnam war, helping me to understand what i was reading in the text. a visual person anyway's, i suppose, i it, and aboutwards four or five years ago, in fact, base group,facebook org as a wayhistory to reaching out to families and oneing more information and of the draws, i think, of this photos as these great that i was finding at the national archives. i was going up to college park digitizing these, and, you know, i had seen a lot of photos of these i had never seen before and it was such a revelation. the course of digitizing these photos, certain names popped up again and again. you know, andson, hanson and others. i for

i was a good campaigner. i could interactive people. it was fun. i could not indirect as well as my sun. i did not think any positive or negative press keep them from communicating with a guy on the street or in the school. i think the kind of journalism is worrisome. it should not keep good people from wanting to serve. >> did you let those -- george h.w.: did he get me down. you are damn right. i thought it was unfair. >> highview protectress of? george h.w.: i probably got angrier than i should. you have to do it once in a while. ofelt a certain sense betrayal by woman who wrote an article because of my intervention she got to interview my mother. we chat to protect mother from this. it was going to be a nice story. it was a gut job. and something i seldom do. i was vice president and we had a meeting with an editor from new york and they came out because they wanted me to give special treatment even though the reporter was a valued friend of mine. i said why give them special treatment. i'm not going to give an inside access to behind-the-scenes

was. and it's interesting when i look back at it. so that was its own conspiracy and when i recognize the situation, it was a whole conspiracy of all these white people who tried everything they could where they became not only my family but there's a line in the book that i wrote and one i wrote it, i had to step away from it because i couldn't believe that i wrote it which was i couldn't talk to my mom while i was trying tofind mother figures . >> i wrote it course cause it's true but then once you write it, then it's not yours anymore. so i was wondering what would happen when my mom would read that and when i got the first physical copy of this book, she was the first person i mailed it to and i said can we not talkabout it yet . >> just read it and as i say in the book, i don't like face timing or skiving but i think were going to have to skype it because i want to talk to her and see her because i wonder what she felt when she was reading the book and how she was like -- she's such a ghost in this book. she haunts it. she just w

michael: but she knew who i was, i knew who she was. was voted in high school the most likely to succeed. so i wanted wanted to hang around her as much as i could. [laughter] date: what were you? you weren't voted that? michael: i was voted the most spirited, friendliest at that time. michael: so you grew up in los angeles, is that right? michael: yes. my father was a lawyer and accountant. and my mom was a homemaker. and yes, i got to work -- anyone who is the child of a person has his own accounting firm, you get to work on balance sheets and tax returns when you are eight. [laughter] david: ok. did you, at the early ages -- were you a pretty good student? michael: oh, i was a very good student. what they did instill in all of us was for us to have a meaningful life, at least everyone had a chance at a meaningful life. and if our children or our children's children were going to have a meaningful life or a good life, then all children had to feel they had that opportunity. and that was instilled with us. david: so you go to berkeley a

so i decided my way of thinking was i didn't have a chance because this guy was in for 16 years. cided i was going to run against him for the state assembly. so i did and announced. now louis ravel didn't think i was very serious because i was still in law school and i didn't move back home. so he went to alaska on a cruise. so i graduated from law school, got my three credits done and it was the first week in august and the first Ãbsecond week in september when the primary was. so i had six weeks. i didn't have any money. i borrowed 500 books from the bank of elroy. bought a $100 car that had 225,000 miles. you can look through the floorboards and see the street. i ran on highway safety. [laughter] > father gave me $10 a day, five dollars for gas and five dollars to eat. it was coney's i had adams, donor and marquette county. i went all over i would start out at 7:00 a.m., i was not married, living with my parents. i would go to all these small communities. i learned early on that the town drunk was in the bar at 8:00 a.m.. i could go into the bar Ãbhe said go by that guy a beer

i thought it was fake i was so convinced my first job here in washington i was an intern with to takethe stationery from the senate judiciary committee and write to my friends and tell them they were being deported. i lived in miami. that works they believed it. [laughter] so i said as my friends playing a joke on me. i thought it was so fake i called the president's office ine houston and said someone on staff asked for assigned copy and they said you got the president's letter. i said it was really him? i got to meet president bush and mrs. bushshto and we became dear t friends and i told president bush at the time i was researching a book on the formersi president and said first of all, the fact he is writing to me shows how bored he was how bored are you that writing y letters to a novelist? it is so amazing to me the most powerful man in the world one day the next he had to stop at the red lights like the rest of us. somebody tolde you everything you have done in the world after thiss moment is downhill not as good as it was today just what it does to your psyche. so he and full

what i remember that day was that i was driving by the pentagon when it was hit. i was coming in from mclean, virginia and my air-conditioning did not work that day and it was warm. down.the windows i was driving by the pentagon and i heard something that made me look to my right. and the minute i look to my right, i must have heard a muffled sound of some kind. i looked right and i saw black smoke coming up on the side of the pentagon. the only thing i thought to myself was -- that is strange because it is so close to the building itself and it is also strange because it is dark smoke and not white smoke. oil.smoke is chemicals, i was curious. that seems strange and out of context. five minutes later i pulled into the raburn garage and i was stopped by the capitol police and they said -- the terrorists have struck the pentagon. and i said -- is that what i just saw five minutes ago? on they said, yes and we are lockdown. you can go into the garage and to your office and you will hear what to do. it was a very graphic introduction to a lot of events that occurred

piper: when i was not doing anything, i was in that space where i was looking for, how can i help? what can i do? my cousin doesn't refugee resettlement for the international rescue committee. he was like, you can help here. with solomon -- with someone who said, come help. i worked with them and opened my eyes to the larger crisis going on. then, the big moment for me was, trump's access hollywood tape. i felt like i must be so naÏve, a must be eight living in a country i do not understand. i felt alone and confused. when he won, i was so upset and bewildered at after crying for three days, i started calling everyone i knew and said, who is doing something? who is trying to do something? how can i help, what can i do? i started there. dream hampton, an activist, i heard her speaking to john legend on a podcast. she had said that legend was interested in getting involved in the incarceration reform ovement. and what should he do? she told him he should listen for a year before he says anything and so i thought, you show up all the time. every time you are asked to show up, you show

i was battling for improvements but there was no willingness to listen. at times i left those sessions feeling so deflated that giving up was never an option or a consideration. >> though i thought the causes ranging from environmental protection to privacy laws, there are few that i never tired of championing. our key issues that i prioritize since my first pamphlet as a supervisor candidate. chief among them is women's empowerment. a campaign consultants once advised me with the best of intentions to not be so focused on women. doing so would only alienate men area but i responded and still believe that women don't doit , who will? if a woman avoids taking on the cause of women, who do we expect to affect change? we lead men to fight for equal pay? i know that is a woman i'm a minority in the house and the most diverse congress ever elected area we still only make 20 percent of the representatives that is not outdated, and now want to be 23 percent in the next congress. yet we are more than halfthe population of the us . i was only the 270 woman of over

and i was coming back with a letter it was destined for certain members of the jihadi community in london including a book i thought that. at the time i did the second chechen war was raging for about three months and when i called him i said i have letters for you of course basically these letters would be expertly opened by my six in a photographed and then put back together again and never told of the contents of course so i have to give the give these other numbers and he said if you come tonight one of your old friends i was sorry to cody is going to die in from tbilisi in georgia because he is the head of there are just sticks for the. so when i went it was late at night because it was almost on at the time it was late at night and he dialed in it's like imagine five g. hardest on a conference call. it feels cope with a little bit so we were asking about you know the russian advance towards grozny and then a book i thought to us he said was it disadvantageous to you it was putin who chose the time of the war and as a result his gaining advantage over you and he was adequately asked

did not think it was fair, and i never expected that it was fair. anticipated that it would happen, but not when. -- no one saw the 2008 crisis. what i put in my second book was how the imf and federal reserve missed it. you go down a whole series of major forecasting. david: everybody got it wrong. the purpose was, i did not find it a surprise. you cannot have a crisis of that nature that is not a surprise. back onhen you look your term as federal reserve chair, would you do any different in light of events that happens after you left? alan: not that i'm aware of. david: when you testify in front of congress, you are well known for not being precise. was that on purpose? alan: yes. it was a general rule at the time that the federal reserve did not make public what it was going to do. we do now, but not back then. ways canion was, what i figure around answering certain questions or not answering them? up a vocabulary that no one could quite understand, or were too ashamed that they do not understand. david: why do you think it is that we are not as c

odd i am a sober via in social lives i was really only skew pairs appends. how did this trip possibly going to work out in my favor and i shouldn't big hair i should not be a hair i should be up in burlington vermont or soon. running naked through the what's how it up them. like that dirty hippie how am i. talking can't of course i'm like to be air you guys are awesome miami so i will say this there is a there's a silver lining to the trunk presidency that you guys might not know about i'll say so in d.c. it is just like completely filled with mainstream democrats who are democrats very like the people that live within the district it's very much like a hillary country like it when almost ninety three percent d.c. voted for clinton the last election and they still can't believe to this day our one of the most unpopular candidates ever going to possibly was like bob once i have right i don't never forget this on election night. after job one it's really late like until i'm leaving office i'm walking around the corner to catch a cab and there's this guy walking

i was in a blackhole, i had no idea what was going on. that video, my tears, joy, amazement, that this belief was all incredibly organic and reappeared -- and real. shirley: this is a question that i thomas -- that i, as an editor of the globe, i want to ask you, did you think you would get the endorsement of the boston globe editorial board? [laughter] notpressley: no, i did think anybody was endorsing me except maybe my mother from on high. [laughter] ms. pressley: obviously my husband and stepdaughter because they had to. honestly, look -- i made the decision to run not because i did not still find joy, reward, and purpose being a boston's city council her, or because i thought i was better than anyone. i was not raised that way and it's not how i function. i just thought i offered something different, that given the car -- the crossroads we find ourselves at as a country, that a job description for a member of congress had changed, and that my activist leadership approach and cooperative governing was in alignment with the needs of th

>> i was doing some wacky pictures. by the way, just as a comedian, to be living next door to kim and kanye during this whole thing got me through. like, that alone got me through. ( laughter ). >> stephen: something normal in your life. >> something normal! people i can relate to. >> stephen: something grounding. >> ythat's right. >> stephen: sure. >> and i would just open a window and see kim and just feel better, feel more american. so i was on-- a lot of people don't know this, also-- i was on the no-fly list for two months. >> stephen: what. >> like i was a terrorist. >> stephen: how did you find out? did guto the airport? >> i was told. i was told. >> stephen: you can't fly. >> for two months. then they wanted me to go downtown to the precinct in-- the police precinct, and they wanted to get video of what's called a perp walk. and this was come, i assume, directly from the oval office and jeff session s. >> stephen: could be. >> i mean, that's where your tax dollars went, everybody, investigating kathy griffin for

she was surprised, heard i was all right. at 7:00, if she had turned on the today show and seen the devastation of the embassies, hundreds killed, she would have had a heart attack. it was important to alert family members of the living. 11 people died, 85 were injured, of those 11, there were nine or 10 among them, one kenyan who was married to susan hirsch -- i really believe the only reason we did not have many more deaths, was because of the way the building was constructed, like a bunker. the other was, the embassies were in different locations. we were in the middle of this big city with a lot of high-rise buildings and the shockwave went back-and-forth. for us it was spread out, it was not in the center, it was in the outskirts, no building was higher than three stories, so the bomb went that way instead of going back-and-forth between buildings. i think that save lives. we had the nigerian embassy next us, the french embassy next was, the russian ambassador's residence were all damaged. just from the proximity from the

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i decided it was time. i told my chief of staff a few months before the 2016 election, if we have another good election, and we did, and i'm able to serve those years that would be 30 years. that seemed to be a good number to stop that. i am very much comfortable with it. there's things i'm going to miss. there are things i miss every day that happened at home with my grandchildren and things like that. i told my wife when i first came up. that i want our kids to be raised in tennessee. i have always considered knoxville and east tennessee to be home. steve: over the years based on your records you had a lot of pressure within your own party, not always voting the way your party wanted you to vote. how would you describe your politics, ideology, and how do you respond when you get pressure from republican leadership to vote one way and you vote the other? rep. duncan: the biggest thing was they found out that i was leaning against the war in iraq. they called me to the white house and the in a secure room wi