i felt like lori, who helped me write book, she's awesome. and it felt so therapeutic to talk to her and to talk through my story and to unpack all these moments throughout my career that i think they've happened, and they feel like kind of blips on radar. so there are these speed bumps and hurdles and mountains that you have to climb. and, you know, through having a strong faith and believing in my purpose and having faith in god, i know that i've been able to overcome things that i've seen a lot of people not make it out of, especially in this sport as people of color and as religious minorities. but i didn't -- to be honest, i didn't know it would be so hard to write a book. [laughter] i don't know why i thought writing 300 pages would be easy, but it's definitely really difficult. i felt -- to me, it felt so timely. like everything about my journey felt timely. even from the time i qualified for the team. this was all around this discussion of, like, zero tolerance, muslim ban, these videos being released of, like, police brutality, like b

and i admire anybody who goes into it. right now, we have a candidate on the republican side for the u.s. senate open seat, and i am in touch with her kathy shelaga, almost every day. things i hear, et cetera. we've got to help our candidates who are running. not just putting a woman in because she's a woman. a capable woman. and that's what i keep stressing. when i got in -- when i was elected, my two chiefs of staff, one ahead of the other, were both women. my latest person was a man, an old friend, from way back who was excellent at that. but i had several women on my staff, and i had women running my district offices. two of them -- two women. and we weren't together as a te team. >> did you think that your earlier career as a reporter and as you talked about the chairman of the commission, because you were one of the few women, do you think that helped prepare you for -- >> absolutely it did. absolutely it did. because when i went to the fmc, i really had never managed anything. i had been a key person on the "sun" pap

i happened to meet someone who was a senior. i went on to get a masters degree, thinking i would go to med school. i got conditional acceptance to one. but i got married and that was the end of that opportunity. >> can you just follow up, just so we have it for the record, what was your mother's name and what was the name of the high school you attended? >> i was born to josephine and thomas mcpherson. i was born in savannah, georgia. my father was an insurance salesman, most of his life. all of his life. we moved from savannah. my mother, taught school for a few years, but i did not know her as a teacher. most of my life i knew her as a dressmaker. later in her life, she became the superintendent of an orphanage. both my mother and father wanted me to have a better life. my father didn't finish high school. late in his life, he got his certificate. he was a salesman. we used to say he could sell a tombstone insurance, already dead. my mother finished what we would call a normal school. years ago, in the black community, it wasn'

feel like i have so made different people in my life who helped me believe that i could arrive at this moment in time that have planted the seed so that also watered it to help it grow to what it is today. when i think of athletes like kareem and dual jabbar or others i remember as a kid thinking like how are they playing and fasting. i could barely make it to lunchtime. i thought i was dying, but to see these athletes, to see how they can compete at the highest level of sports and fast, to see athletes like serena and venus williams to be unapologetic about who they were as black athletes in the tennis world, to me there were some parallels to my career as a fencer and if you like it wasn't something that i could directly relate to because i was, you know, not even a blip on a map of fencing when they were really starting to ascend within the sport of tennis. i think that watching them allowed me to unconsciously grab my aspirations as an athlete and i have always wanted-- i want this generation to see a muslim athlete be successful. i want our generation to continue to

i was. well, you know, who knows. this comes later, i had my little red buttons, and i ran, i ran hard. >> in any of those campaigns, did you receive support from any women's groups or organizations? >> no, i did not. women's groups, at that time, were not active in maryland. i received help from the maritime people mostly. i had a limited amount from women's group, women, not as groups. >> like now? the national organization for women? >> no, there are others. there were none of those active in doing more for women. you had to do it on your own. that is where i went. fortunately, i had the support of labor. i have the support of workers, and even though, i had the support of labor, not the union heads, but the members who lived in my district, were very supportive, and they voted for me. and because they voted for me, i was elected. and may have had something to do with reagan, too, i don't know. but, it helped. >> was there any one key moment? was there any one key moment in that election that you felt you had turn a

so i confronted humble oil master who was in charge and i said who said that? i said i want to know. and humble oil, after i had been attacked and criticized as the only female reporter, they admitted that they were using me. and blaming me. there was no problem. they just did not want us to use the phone. >> we read a lot of articles about that. it was picked up in the press, definitely. helen: so we got home, and then i took my oath for chairman of the federal maritime commission. and since i knew everyone at the fmc, i knew all of those who were productive and all of those who were not productive. and i was able to straighten things out probably faster than the average person going into a government agency. i was very caucus and -- i was ant of what had happened to me as a woman trying to get in there. the past battles that women had. at the fmc, i had four male commissioners and i can tell you they were snotty. and resentful that a woman was chair. i let them be. i would not let them, when they were nasty, we had one automobile with a chauffeur. i cut them o

i do not see someone who look like me. even with a women's team there had never been a woman of color on the team. so i was going against what everyone around me was telling me. i was 23 when i went to my first international competition. i had no world ranking, had no national ranking. i never had a senior competition before. there were a lot of naysayers tell me what was impossible. in olympic team was not in my future because i had never been on a cadet or junior team. i do not have the tactical training or skills to ever make a national team or qualify for an olympic team. a lot of my journey as an athlete is about challenging what people around me think about me. i feel like society tries to put you in a box even in the fencing community. there's an idea that people who excel us kids were thought of as olympic hopefuls and people who don't have a spot on these teams are the ones who will not make it. they will fall off if they don't have the skill set to make it. there is also a layer, i don't know what to call it. but

i admire anybody who goes into it. right now, we have a candidate on the republican side for the u.s. senate open seat. i am in touch with her almost every other day. the things i hear, etc. we got to help our candidates who are .unning not just putting a woman in because she is a woman. but a capable woman. what i keep stressing. him -- when i got in and was staff,, my two chiefs of one ahead of the other, were both women. , iold friend from way back staff,eral women on my women running my district offices, two women, etc. and we team. together as aoffices >> do think your earlier career as a reporter and as you talked about the chairman of the commission, because you were one of the few women, do you think that helped prepare you? >> it absolutely did. absolutely dead. i went to the fmc, i really had never managed anything. i had been a key person on staff, but, that was me. i had two assistance. but all of that prepared me to run a respectable and honorable office. it is often quoted that my constituent service was s

i was getting invitations to fund raise. had no idea who i would end up supporting. in november, a couple people stopped in my office to raise money. wanted to know who i would support. heck, you guys probably know. they said commode they -- we will probably sit it out. i said, sit it out? it's a congressional race to has an been opened for 25 years. they said, why don't you run? i think as a joke. i told my wife about the day, i thought she would get a kick out of that. she said, well what did you tell them? i told them they were crazy. she said, call them back, you would be great in that. [applause] -- [laughter] host: so did she want you out of the house? rep. davidson: she goes, this is for the country. pretty all in. we looked at what it would take to do this. truly, i don't think i could have been more green and actually won. i really had striped out of politics around 2005. when i talk about foreign policy, when colin powell steps up and says we have to find the weapons of mass destruction in iraq, that is a mission most everyone can get behind. when the missio

i traditionally published and who i willen continue to publish. but others didn't mind and kind of liked the idea. so zephyr is one of those end people. i feel like she's one of my -- she's part of my gang, part of my tribe. >> host: so, zephyr teachout, what was it like for you to work for conservative adam bellow who has a conservative reputation? >> guest: adam has a great reputation as an editor, and he had worked with one of my favorite writers, someone named barry lynn, who was one of the first to really punch through consensus in economic thinking and say, hey, one of the problems we might have in america is a problem of concentrated economic power. so when i set forth to write this book that i'm writing about monopolies and what we can do about it, i was really excited to work with somebody who understood that there's a real moment in american economic thinking, and we have an opportunity to reshape the way that we think about the economy and the relationship between the economy and the democracy. >> host: are

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i hate the tutorial of who is a better mom and the mom books? it was just what was right for me at the time. that is why i decided to leave. i want to -- >> i want to ask you a broad legislative question. in all of your time in congress in the 90's, what was the most important piece of legislation that passed that had the most direct impact on women? rep. molinari: going back to the 1990's. i think certainly -- and it happened before with the violence against women act. i don't know if young people can appreciate the fact that i served on mayor giuliani's commission on the status of women. i was the chair of that. that time in the mid-1980's that we were dealing with the fact that there were mandatory arrests. i remember the discussion on domestic violence being something like this. it is a family matter. you go to the door. the cops say, usually to the gentleman, take a walk and cool down. do you want to press charges? and even if the woman was clearly incapacitated and they knew she was scared, if she said, no. they closed the books. to think o

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met who hadn't, experienced some -- refugee that i met who hadn'tnced profound trauma. for me that is a political solution that needs to take place. i am focussed on, you know the very real human need that these 670,000 refugees. >> she was in your country. australia. >> yes, recently. >> when you were in bangladesh. she was treated as visiting dignitary, as she should be. but she pulled out of a q & a in a speech and all that kind of stuff. again, i wonder as an australian what you think of your own country's record on refugees, on immigrants, you know, them being sort of -- shunted into, into detention centers and offshore and all the rest of it. a very difficult thing for you as a nonpolitical, actress, goodwill ambassador to be in the middle of. it actually. a lot of politics that crosses. >> the respecting of basing human rights for the world's most vulnerable should not be a political decision. turning back boats, has not worked. the policy of off shore mandatory ongoing detention is inhumane and must be stopped. the australia i group in was o

i didn't know who she was. ether or not i should be on the show, definitely, everybody watches the daily show, she's great. go on the show definitely. when she was there, she was there with a couple camera people and producers and stuff, and i thought she was the producer when i first met her. she just struck me as very quiet and shy and introverted. you know, i can read women. i don't know what it is. it is like a special gift or something. [laughter] >> they brought two cameras to the interview, one to sort of see your reaction. at one point she threw her hands to her head, jumped up and screamed and then ran out of the room so they can get your expression. this is how it works. so you have to sort of -- if you're willing to do this, if you want to get out there and try and communicate science, you have to be willing to put aside any residual pride that you have after 25 years of the nih granting process and do it. [laughter] >> and jimmy kimmel, i don't know if you have seen this one, this is one of the best

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i think each and every person who stood in line. eryone who bought her album, who bought her concert ticket. i want to thank everyone who ever took a picture of my aunt, whoever wrote an article about my aunt, and whoever loved every last song she wrote. when i was born in '73, she was already the queen of soul, had won eight grammys, had top ten hits on the top 100, but to me she was just my aunt. my father's sister. and i was her namesake. i was given the name crystal robin aretha, named after my mother's younger sister and my father's famous sister. my aunt robin never let aretha forget that her name came first, but aretha would laugh and say they saved the best for last. to the world she was known as the queen of soul, but to me she was just my aunt. the one who gave birth to my first road dog, my aunt who came to live with us at the age of 6 with my uncle vaughn, who i had no idea was a big movie star. the aunt who sung at my high school graduation, taught me my bad shopping habits, and took her granddaughters, my daughters, and

i met activists who are using innovative ways. amore shook hands the more selfies a tech the more i felt my soul in my spirit nourished. i'm so grateful for those folks who for 12 years now have been making netroots such a powerful coalition of progressive people and i want to tell you when i started out when i was 20-something in the streets of newark, new jersey we didn't have netroots. the internet was just taking hold. i feel like when i was shaking hands with folks here and taking some pictures i really have to say i felt the same energy i felt when i was organizing in the grassroots of newark. i lived in the central ward of an incredible cities with the next generation of leaders in that city maria theresa, credible young leaders coming up in and leading our city. i'll tell you i'm proud to live in newark but all the neighborhoods we had in newark i am proud that i lived in the neighborhood i lived in. i'm the only united states senator who lived in a community that is rich with culture and had a wealth of spirit and a credib

that is what the young people who i talked to who were doing it not because they were trying to quit moking, but doing it to de-stress. i spoke to a consumer psychologist and a child psychologist, and they both ancribed there is attraction to the device on the consumer side. it has become something that is considered hip and trendy because it has a social media presence. the child psychologist talked about how young people were doing it to get a lift ticket through depression or anxiety. to the previous caller, try cold turkey and you will end up like this young person described to me who had to quit for a vacation with her family because her father didn't know and she was sleepless, shaky, headaches, and felt moody. it can be a tough withdrawal. host: are e-cigarettes advertised in the same way as cigarettes? i know there are a lot of controls on the way cigarettes are marketed to everyone. there are warning labels. do e-cigarettes have to follow that, or is it a completely different industry? you pointed out in the washington post and many other publications -- they are able to adve

>> for the most part, i publish books by people who i agree with or who i feel are making important arguments. that doesn't mean that i necessarily agree with or endorse every -- everything they say. as i said before, you know, as a book editor. you know, a book is a large thing. averaging 300 pages. my job is not to be an ideological disciplinarian. or to hold people to any kind of ideological standard. i'm interested in -- what interested me about conservativism when i came into the movement was that at that time, it was in my view, more open, more intellectually engaged. the conservatives i knew were better educated, than most of the liberals that i knew. liberalism i felt had -- although i consider myself a liberal in certain decisive respects, liberalism i felt had lost the capacity to defend itself and to give an account of its own founding principles. the book that really illustrated that was "the closing of the american mind" written by my teacher alan bloom and published by my mentor irwin glickis. at the time it was published, i was in graduate school in columbia, in the history dep

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i mean this is a just involved over dick is you know kind of figuring out who i mean god of understanding who the immigrants in assam are now assam has seen the maximum influx of migrants strong bond with these since the ninety's and if one who have student assam for four generations their families a studio and this is an ethnic conflict and over a period of time to political parties have kind of stopped this conflict for community purposes in ninety three we saw another post my sacristy against muslims the. partitions took communion tensions in a in a predominantly ethnic divide what we are seeing right now the n.c.i. national register it is a very arbitrary process because now you have it's been called as perhaps one of the biggest dissent from junkman exercise getting close to four million have been left out of the list some of them include the family members of the former president offend these include it's seems to be a very arbitrary process also this issue has become you know more than the ethnic divide more than the issue about somebody who was assamese and known as the beast as i

the thing i found amazing was, after i had it, i learned that there were women who i knew well who had had cancer in the past 20 years and never said a word about it. they just went through the treatment and everything by themselves. there was one woman here in congress i was a good friend with. she happened to be a democrat and she had breast cancer and she wouldn't tell anybody. she wanted no one to know. there was a second one later on that also had breast cancer and she wouldn't tell anyone until she was done. then she came back and said, i have breast cancer. everyone handles it differently. i just thought, if i could help other women. up until at least a year ago, i was still having women come up to me and say, you saved my life. i saw you on television. you said go get a mammogram and i did and i had breast cancer. it is that type of thing, when you are a public figure, you also have a responsibility to use that, in a way, for good. that is one thing that happened. that i was able to do. but i got my treatment at home. my treatment was rough. i would be home a week, then i would

looked up to, who i followed, and who, in my opinion, was one of the most transformational americans of the last half of the 20th century. i didn't say first ladies, i said americans, because of what she did and how she did it. now, i have to really go back a little bit, though, because gerald ford was my first boss in politics. yes. in the summer of 1968, i was an intern, junior at wesley, and after this program where we would spend about eight weeks in washington, and i was assigned to the house republican conference committee. and gerald ford was the minority leader. and there's a wonderful picture of us somewhere that i'm sure will show up on twitter or some place elsewhere he took pictures with all the interns. but i will never forget the -- just the -- you know, the real joy that i had around him and others who seemed to have the country's best interest at heart, okay? so fast-forward, and when president ford became president ford, i along with the rest of the country was introduced to betty ford. and aside from being beautiful and graceful and gracious and humble and welcoming

when i talk to americans, present company excepted, general american who is haven't heard much about world war i, they don't know much about it. they roughly know who was involved. they'll say wow that was one mass slaurt, wasn't it? >> that was just -- guys getting into trenches and getting blown up by the thousands and they never really accomplished anything. and then 20 years later we had world war ii. and doesn't that prove that world war i was just a colossal waste? what's there to learn from that? i think that gets to the root of why there's so even now in the centennial, there's so little interest from so many people in world war i. it's a miserable, depressing, ugly story. and there's nothing to learn about it. they envision the trenches. they envision the mass slaughter and they think that's really all there is. if however, you take the time to to hear the stories of individuals, of the people to look at the personal testimonies of the men, the women from different perspectives, you sigh there is no one war experience. that that stereotype of millions going off to war, being

but i think women are more open. who, also think even those they may be extreme in their party, if you can get to them -- ego,this may be, again, my but i think if you can get to them, i think they would care the same issues. i think you can make them see workinge of them together, because they do care about the same issues. care about children. they do care about family. that, we haveo do to give, each other. at because you're standing in group over here, whether you're women or men, you have made up your mind that you are not gonna budge. right? now, eva clayton believes she could get some of them to budge. it's not just eva clayton. i think women to, if they could them, if democratic women and republican women could come together individually, one or they would begin to see the realityity and see the and the advisability of working together. hmm? barrier,unofficial ast in order to be perceived strong -- hmm? nobody gets anything done. tell me who wins in that. understand. who wins in that, huh? the democrats have to g

i am and i'm thankful. 's love and for the freedom he gives me to essentially be who i am. my purpose for writing the story at least at the beginning was to have a target audience of fundamentalist christians who are convinced that being gay was chosen. i have always felt that my story depicts perfectly that being gay is not chosen. i wanted to target bag group and convince them of the erroneous belief that we can change, and gays could become straight people. all they need to do is pray and i prayed for years. so that was my target audience and once i realized fundamentalist christians are not interested in my story then i thought well i had learned by that time that those who were interested were those who had lived either a life similar to mine or who have gay children. this targeted the organization. many of the talks that i had given in nine different states at this time had began groups primarily. although college classes of primarily the p. flag groups. it's amazing how many would come up to me and say you just told my story. or some state when i would make it say tha

so the first story i who about populism was in 2006. again in 2010 i also, i headed down to this -- was it 65 -- i went to every one of those districts. bill johnson in colombian that county in ohio where he was running against charlie wilson -- not the famous charlie wilson, different carlly wilson. -- charlie wilson. i kept telling everyone, he's going to win. he's going to win big, and they laughed at me. but the way i approach journalism is a little bit different than sort of the more conglomerate, larger institutions. i think it's the really important because smaller newspapers are starting to shed people who cover traditional politics. i don't fly except to here. >> thank you. [laughter] >> i don't take an interstate. i only use back roads. and i never stay in a hotel. i always stay at a bed and breakfast. so the first person that i meet is a small business person. and they know where all the bodies are buried. and usually i get to a town -- >> and hopefully they haven't buried them. [laughter] >> maybe they have. there's been some

. >> i say, who's on first, what's on second, i don't know's on third. >> yeah, you know both names. es. >> well, who's on first. >> yes. >> i mean the fella playing first. >> who. >> the guy playing first. >> who is on first? >> what are you asking me for? >> they were one of probably hundreds of comedy teams in burlesque. after they appeared on radio, they became the most hated comedy team in burlesque. all the comedians had been doing the same routine their whole career. now abbott and costello are nationally known and they get their own radio show on nbc. >> did you and lou originate who's on first. >> let's not go into that. >> no one knows who wrote who's on first. that's the great part of it. but they perfected it. >> and now, "the abbott and costello show." >> it was a pervasive presence, there was an absurdist element, and it was also funny in a kind of vaudevillian way. they made movies in the '40s. they were the biggest box office draw a couple years in a row. >> which way do you want me to turn. >> to the left. >> to the left, that's right. >> that's right. >> to the left.

am, if you hate fox you don't know who i am but then there's weird overlap of people who like maybe kid visiting grandparents and i was on tv and i'm yelling, who is that person, that happened today, the guy said i think i know you and i know where it's going because it started to dawn on him that i was the antichrist. [laughter] >> the best one was at newark airport, my wife was flying in from somewhere and i was flying no from somewhere and i got there first, i was waiting at a bar in newark, this dude across from me and giving the i hate fox news stair and a little bit older than me and he was working up the -- the stuff and so i was -- i go here it comes and he gets up and walks over to me and he gets very close to me, i just want you to know that the place that you -- you should be ashamed of where you work. it is a disgusting environment and a horrible place and i'm thinking it can't get worse than that and said tmz has ruined so many lives. [laughter] >> i'm thinking, i look like harvey levin. he's like a stunted version of jack lane. i realized -- i realized, though, that th

because i was the only woman who ran and that helped me. now if i had two women, i don't know what -- we both were the key. and in fact, what i did say is i said we have six good candidates but eva clayton is the best. rather than to say he doesn't do that, he does don't that. i just wanted to say if you want the very best for you, you would choose eva clayton. now, that may have been arrogance but i believed it and i said it with a -- with the best for the first. it became a slogan that we used. we wrote it on our t-shirts, wrote it on our cards, wrote it on the plaques. we had no apologies for thinking we were the best, so a woman was the best in that candidate. rather they wanted to -- whether they wanted to see it or not. >> how important was the issue of race in your campaign? >> very important. but it was evenly split. we had three whites -- let me correct that. i think we had two whites. we had three whites -- two whites who ran in the primary. and i can't count -- yes. then three blacks besides myself. so that is six, yeah. so i made

i say that as someone who does not want to be a judge anymore. is a really good human be happens to be in politics. i watched him, now i have the chance to experience it, not just watch it. i can tell you this. i think the day i realized there's something different about him we have all been victims of blogs or something less than complementary. something really not complementary was written about senator scott. it was libelous. i reach the end and said we will not put up with this. i went down to his office and went past the scheduler and set i'm going to see him and were gonna do something about this. you cannot allow people to say this into nothing and he said, you're right. close the door. and i thought this is going to be good. working to preform that i said to him, i love you, but i am not praying. >> so he said you sit here with me while i do. he prayed for a critic by name, they're not very many people who do that. >> talk about your dinners together. i know this place can be sometimes isolated. you're busy and you don't really of time to

the youngest one who was three would go to bed his little rifle. iould no longer live in that house. a woman who is lonely and afraid, but one who is determined to make it. everything i did was what i thought he would've wanted and the promises i made to him the night before he was killed. my grandmother said to me you run as far away as mississippi as you can get. without going into the ocean. california became home and until this day it still is. i summarized, as best i can the character of the women in these but they represent authenticity, courage and purpose. i quote elaine jones when i say why, after american woman, what's my passion on that. elaine jones, a native of north old virginia, in 1970, became the first african american women to graduate from the university virginia school of law and later the first woman president and director counselor of the na vp legal defense and educational fund. she said, the point is no one did what we do. lack women believe in fundamental fairness. we know the difference between right and wrong. that is the w

because i was the only woman who ran. that helped me. i had two women. we both had it and i can't move. i did say. >> and if you want the best for you, we'll choose clayton. >> and that is two whites. we had three whites who ran in the primary. >> that is the same thing i saw. and i also think in a sense of and whether they voted for me or not. >> if is a number of factors. the redistricting and gave women opportunity. a nitta hill. discussion and argument or whatever you want to hear. certainly, infurerated or inspired by woman whether they are black or white being engaged in that. i think clinton, articulation of equal opportunities of women and that is engaging the opportunity in that. and i think that a number of years before. the women had tried and things seemed to have come together at that particular piem're time. so it was a very, very siing cant attempt for all of us to come at the same time. yeah. >> you mentioned the list and other groups that supported you, how difficult was it to fund raise in the campaign. >> utterly difficult. yeah, in em

i was just somebody who would put my two cents in. and of course they campaigned very heavily on it. the are my husband and i got married, the year we took the majority. we were pretty high profile. and i think we went into, you know, 52 districts in, like, three weeks. you would not even know where you were. you'd be like, it was really great to be with you because you could not remember if it was ohio or illinois. but we did talk about the contract a lot. it was a game changer, right? because it was the first time during that whole point of the contract, to say to people, we are asking you to change history, right? to give the republicans a chance at a majority. something that has not been done in a generation. and so we are not just to say trust us, here are things we are going to do within the first 100 days. and so whether you agree with the contract or not, i think it's a pretty good way to govern because people knew what they were going to get when they voted. >> can you describe the atmosphere in the house during that transitio

because i have a disability it made me who i am and i'm happy about it. small things counted. the people who helped me out as you said they didn't have any kind of experience. they are just normal people. by leaving in may they didn't lose money. they believed in me and they aren't they spoke asked how can we help? how i can help a yemeni to get out of yemen. a friend said to me i think your account was hacked. >> host: it sounds beyond the abilities. they made these were people in new york and san francisco and tel aviv. they were all over. it seems so far-fetched that a random guy in new york could help someone out in yemen. >> guest: exactly. not only that but how many times when a person asked you for a dollar menu just ignore it. that can make an impact and let people know how important and how small things can even change a life. don't believe everything you hear. you need to listen for the truth. we became lazy people. we just need to find the first news and we believe it. what we need to do is look at what's really behind it and what is the true story. >> host: absolute

i had a friend who had a nickname. my name was lillian so they called me gish after lillian gish, an actress whose movies i had never seen. it was kind of a nickname that a couple people used in a really very limited circumstances. until i went away during the summer to an archaeological dig in pennsylvania. i'm away from home. there's a hurricane, so the building had just been hit by lightning, so our electricity was out, and so we were going around a circle by candle light, and we're, you know, we're introducing yourselves, and they got to me and with no premeditation whatsoever, i introduced myself as gish jen. i didn't know what came over me. it just popped out. and today i know that the self-naming is something that a lot of writers do. you know, it's everywhere, mark twain. at the time i didn't know that this business of self-naming is very highly associated with being a writer. but i will say that that summer, you know, the idea of self-invention was very much on my mind is that gish jen did all these things that

i don't know who her follow this. i found that out canvassing to weeks ago. >> is your question around you have conversations -- >> as black people in the community, we keep everything in the closet. we need to pull the rug. burn the rug. i'm so sick of the rug and closets. i'm down with mental health, but how do i meet these men where they are at? they have been contaminated with hyper masculinity. they don't know what it means to actually be a black man because it is wrapped up with patriarchy, as our journey, and -- misogyny and white supremacy. i love telling them, you are the white man of my community and it's embarrassing. they get mad when they hear that. in this community, you abuse the people who look just like you. you have this male privilege. you have this heterosexual privilege. how do i get them to relinquish that privilege and acknowledge that it exists. the only way that you can fix a problem is acknowledging that it is a problem. offer one answer. i think that social capital is really something that is

everybody i know who has seen won't they? just seen it said it was absolutely gripping. yes, you can just about survive it. you have been warned! thank you very much. lovely to see you, jason, and that is it for this week. whatever you choose to watch, whatever you are brave enough for, have a good week. enjoy your cinema going. goodbye. hello there. a great disappointing day across many parts of the country but the south and east did see some good spells of sunshine, and a bit warmer than yesterday. the rain across western areas will continue to peter out this evening and overnight front will continue to struggle central scotland, northern ireland and the far north and north—west of england. one automatic showers and dry spells across much of england and wales but apart from that it should be a dry night and much more mild than last night. for the weekend, definitely a story of two halves. quite dry and humid and sunday, some rain at times. the picture across england and wales sos show some cloud around. the best of the weath

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i then wrote about robert hanssen who was not dead. but i had it in my mind that i wanted to explore the life of some powerful person who was a woman. i've been interested in women in washington. i've written about a lot of them. i wrote an article in the washington post. it interested me. it took a long time to decide to commit myself to a book. i was terrified next find any original information. there was much out there. finally i signed the contract and that the bullet. with bytes constant encouragement and constantly telling me that if you look hard enough, he will find new things. i was pleasantly surprised that i did. did mrs. greet him -- green hough have any trouble getting an audience in europe? ms. blackman: they loved her. she was not an official official. she could just put between them. and she was beautiful and she was charming and she was very knowledgeable. she was very much like pamela, a lobbyist, a hostess. traveled easily between northerners and southerners in washington and the french and the british in europe. she

>> i have friends who say you're always talking about how things were better in various ways. e problem is they were. in that case, i think it's true. i don't know if you would cast a show now. i had another one with both johnnaa and john cheever and that was wonderful watching when chief are phrased his writing. >> i want to talk to you because it wasn't just tom wolf. he was a full-blown literary celebrity wasn't he, philip ross? and you mentioned "port noise complaint" and how racy it was. reading it so many years later, how did you take it, mary? was it as shocking then? >> i think it's still shocking. i really do, and he was so baked for it that the shocking thing to me about how people read "port noise complaint" is when they mistake philip roth for alexander portnoy. it's sort of thinking big brother in 1984 was george orwell. you know, certainly roth's subject was desire and the torments of what he would call the tumescent male. it was also about death. he was also writing about death and sex was a way to stave off debt, but was also a self-murder in portnoy in some way

when i hear about white supremacists and fascists who terrorize nonwhites and spew hate i think about settlements on the west bank who terrorize palestinians in cities bethlehem byht -- throwing stones at children and burning trees and forcibly taking homes. about vulnerable communities being passed over for jobs, excluded from neighborhoods, treated as second-class citizens, i think of palestinians as citizens of israel who face more than 65 loss to discriminate against them in housing, education, and politics every day. heyer remember heather who was killed last year in charlottesville by white nationalists i remember the cold-blooded killing by an israeli sniper of a young palestinian nurse tending to wounded demonstrators in gaza's market return. these snipers have deliberately been targeting medical workers as well as innocent civilians. in gaza an 11-year-old blockade has made 2 million people prisoners in their own land of a hundred 40 square miles. importnnot travel or many goods or fish beyond a certain area of the mediterranean or israeli army fires on them and confiscates t

so i have no vocabulary to explain to myself who and what it was i was feeling. so, as i've already mentioned, i fell in love, we were both seven team and this was in 1956. when the christmas holidays came, we were separated for the first time and we miss each other so much that we would always writing letters back and forth. each evening i propped up in bed and i wrote to her. my dad was a sociology major with knowledge of same-sex attraction and rightfully concluded that his only daughter was gay. he shared this with my mother and suggested she go in and have a talk with me. so she came into my bedroom that evening and shared with me what she had been taught about being gay. but it was sinful and certainly unacceptable for me to live my life that way. they have plans for me to earn my teaching certificate and she told me that evening though school district would harm me to teach in the schools have also explained that he would have a very difficult time just finding a place to live, that no one would grant us an apartment and few people would even sell us a hou

like if you watch fox you know who i am. if you hate foxy don't know who i am. then there's a weird overlap of people who maybe there's a kid visiting grandparents and i was on tv. and i was yelling and he's like who is that person. that happened today. he said i think i know you and i knew where it was going. then it dawned on him that i was the antichrist. [laughter] the best one was at newark airport, my wife was flying in from somewhere, but i got there first. i was waiting at a bar and this dude was right across me and kept staring at me. he was given me the i hate fox news stair. here's a little bit older and drinking a beer and i could see he was working up the stuff, so, i said here comes, he walks over to me and gets very close and says, i just want you to know, i think the place you should be ashamed of where you work. it is a disgusting environment and a horrible place. i'm thinking i can't get any worse than that, and he says tmc has ruined so many lives. i'm thinking, i look like harvey levin? he's like a stunted version of jack lane. the guy was rea

that is i think your question. as to whoan do it today, i think we have got a whole slew of candidates on the democratic side, and i am very excited to see what they will say and do, and we will learn more over the next 24 months about who does it the best. >> we encourage you to follow us on twitter at cspan history. we have a question we would like you to answer. we will have it out for the full week. the question is this, which party has changed the most since 1968? you can follow us on twitter and cast their votes. we will have it up during the course of the week. let's turn to chicago and the convention. the convention was in late august to coincide with lyndon johnson's birthday, expecting he was going to be renominated, getting the democratic party only two months to get ready for the november election. how significant or those antiwar protest? >> hugely significant, in the sense that it created an oral around the party of dysfunction. it was impossible to look around the convention of what to democrats were doing. i