ignatius, i appreciate everything you've written. i look forward to the incredible work you have in your future. the comment i would like to make is which you mentioned earlier about the incredible unsung hero about the war on terror. what impressed me in the book that i didn't really anticipate was that he wasn't alone. they too were serving in their country that were very harsh, very difficult and they were equally in harms way and how his wife manage the children into an educated and was able to purchase on their clothing to the sears catalog just to comment to all those who serve our country, and to be grateful to their wives and children who are there with them. james bond never had a wife or a family, that the people who serve our country do and those wives and children are there right along with their fathers. i appreciate so much the opportunity to bring this to our community. thank you for taking our call. >> host: when you say our community, are you a member of the intelligence community? >> guest: no, not really. just this

family we say paul ignatius, the manner that ship.that's a great big warship that will be at c4 30 years and a wonderful memorial to my dad and everyone who knows my dad knows what a special person he is. host: there is an armenian connection and one of your books does that reflect on your heritage? guest: it does. there's an armenian connection my life. my grandfather was born in what was then that ottoman empire, a town in eastern turkey. he made his way to america as did the woman he married who came by way of manchester englandy and in my living room we have a piano that my grandmother brought to america from manchester, england. i open the piano bench and saw some of the music she brought with her and that pno is played to sometimes by my own daughter who is now a doctor whose name is lisa. she sits at that pno where her great grandmother sat. my armenian background is something i am proud of.g i have tried to travel to armenia and get to know people there and support humanitarian causes in armenia. the miracle of our country is

>>host: david ignatius what is the premise of the quantum spy? >> the united states is locked in a new manhattan project to build a piece of technology that will change and that is the quantum computer the principal rival ms. china that the quantum spy is a novel that the characters to be involved to see who can steal the other secret over changing technology but simply it is the story of my hero. of a cia officer who is asked to penetrate the chinese intelligence service and in process learn things about himself and the cia that she came up to his foundation. not so familiar to readers of science fiction like the russian spy world but but it takes us into the world of security. that is the principal antagonist in the book. >>host: how much is real? >> i always say the preface exist in the imagined world if you take any book that i write the menu and up with the mud pie.e. but that said i try to do a lot of research i research that for many months going to the computer laboratories and i travel to every place mentioned in the book study the chine

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. >> david ignatius and pull zer price winning historian john meechum. let me begin with you, john. history does not always go in straight lines. i do think, though, historians 30 years from now will be shocked that america has moved as much as we've moved since the life and death of martin luther king jr. we elected barack obama, who won two majority victories. i guess the last president to do that, my god, maybe it was eisenhower? and yet it's followed with a president who is reactionary and radical and i would say judging by his words and deeds racist. how do historians handle this 30 years from now? >> well, we have a recurrent and tragic tendency in the american soul to fear rather than to hope. to point at people instead of looking ahead. it was said years and years ago that the american dilemma is race. the problem of the 20th century in america is the problem of the color line. question is and the tragedy of the current moment that you're describing is we thought that was the problem of the 20th century. evidently it continues to be a problem into this our fourth century as

our special series with author david ignatius, sunday live from noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2. discussion on, a the history and the impact of the pentagon papers. from ""washington journal," this is an hour. continues. joining us from new york city is david rudenstine, a professor of law at the core does a school of law -- core does that -- or does out -- cordozo school of law. he is also the author of "the day the presses stopped: a history of the pentagon papers case." thank you for joining us today. thank you. i am delighted to be here. phyllis coming up that focuses on the washington post coverage of the pentagon papers. remind us of what the pentagon papers work. papersthe pentagon totaled 2.5 million words, 7000 pages, and it weighed 60 pounds. it was a history of how the united states got involved in totnam from roughly 1945 1968. "the washington post" covering the made it to the supreme court. explain what happened. guest: that is a complicated question. given to there "new york times" in 1971. , 1971, "the new york series"pushing a 10-par

katty: david ignatius, thank you very much for coming in. laura: in other news from around the world, several people have died in venezuela in a police operation against a group linked to oscar pÉrez. he is a police pilot who last year allegedly took a helicopter and fired at government buildings. earlier today, a video appeared on instagram of perez with blood on his face, saying the authorities had him surrounded and were shooting with grenade launchers. olympic gold medalist simone biles has come out and said that she, too, was abused by the former usa gymnastics team doctor larry nassar. in a letter published on twitter, the athlete talked of her struggle to speak up and overcome the trauma. last november, he pleaded guilty to several counts of criminal sexual conduct and admitted he had used his position to abuse young gymnasts. you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come on tonight's program -- >> ♪ you got me wrapped around your finger ♪ laura: she was the woman behind the distinctive sound of the cranberries. we look bac

>> so off of that, joe, off of your observation, off of what david ignatius just indicated, over the past couple of days, i've talked to four different people, two from the intelligence committee, two from the fbi, formerly from the fbi. and each of them have a similar strain of thought on what's going on. and it is this -- that a lot of what we read, a lot of what we end up talking about on cable tv, about these daily headlines, these daily stories, it seems every day we get two or three different eye-popping stories out of washington. there's an element of distraction to all of them. because at the root of this is an astounding fact, according to these intel people, and the former fbi people. and it is this -- that at the root of this, is russia's role in manipulating an election in the united states of america. russia. not our friend, not our ally, russia. still here, still actively pursuing disruption in our political system. and politicians from the president on down, say -- nothing about it each and every day. >> the answer to your question is -- of course, of course the reason

back to david ignatius.ail—safe method within this, checked by more than one employee or warning on the screen and why couldn't they cancel it without having to go to fema first? i hope every other federal agencies looking at those questions. it is not as though this is the first time an accident like this has happened. a former national security adviser was phoned in the middle of a per night with somebody telling him that the russian missiles had been launched and were on their way, two minutes, as he remembered it to make a decision. within those minutes, somebody said it was a mistake. for me, this is a reminder of why nuclear weapons are so dangerous. nuclear weapons are so dangerous. the argument is made by our former secretaries of defence that we really need to think about getting nuclear missiles radically reduced or eliminated because accidents do happen. exactly what the pope was saying on the plane to latin america to reporters. this could happen by mistake. it's an indication of the level of ten

our special series with david ignatius today live from noon to 3 p.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2. tonight, federal appellate judge john newman looks back at his 38 year judicial career in his book, benched. he is interviewed by richard blumenthal. >> as a judge for 35 years, having gone from that active life of making decisions and going to court and advocating a case to judging, was that a difficult transition for you and did you ever miss the life of advocacy? >> it was not difficult. it has been for some i have it has been for some i have known. i have known people who became judges and so disliked the decision-making process that they left the bench. i was an advocate. i found the decision-making process, while it was different, enormously challenging and satisfying. i like being in a turning but i loved being judge because the opportunity to resolve disputes large and small, they all matter to somebody but some of them have a large public significance. that is a very satisfying role. on book tv onht c-span 2. >> now an update on the ongoing prot

it all kicks off on sunday, january 7th at noon with david ignatius, a washington post columnist and the author of ten national security thrillers. you can join us live on sunday, january 7th or watch it on demand at booktv.org. >>> a century ago on april 6th, 1917, congress voted to declare war on germany and enter world war i. more than four million american men and women served in uniform and more than 100,000 died. next, american history tv marks the 100th anniversary. we travel to the national world war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri to speak with authors and historians about the u.s. role in what was then called the great war. we learned about the creation of the memorial to honor those who served and about artifacts in the museum's collection. this is about two and a half hours. >>> 100 years ago on april 16th, 19 1917, president woodrow wilson signed a

i want to start, david ignatius, with you.get a chance to speak with you yesterday about the revelations that came out in michael schmidt's book, revelations that, of course, so many people in washington have been whispering about, the michael wolff book. i had somebody say last night, what's the big news about wolff's new book? it's what everybody in washington has been writing or saying for the past year? well, wolff is more dramatic in his writing. be that as it may, it caused a firestorm, and i'm just wondering with north korea and with iran and with news coming out of pakistan, it can be unsettling. what is your -- what's your take on a new explosive set of revelations coming out talking about the dysfunction in the trump white house when there is so much on the line across the globe this morning? >> joe, i can give you a simple anecdote to explain what it's been like the last couple days. on thursday afternoon when the revelations about the wolff book and trump's amazing response to it came out, i was on my way to a majo

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>> shannon: we get something interesting survey, the david ignatius piece from "the washington post." he says, it adds something interesting to the timeline. he says the fbi was very interested in talking to steal based on the australian account. australians had said george papadopoulos is talking about possibly the russians have dirt on hillary. the bureau requested another meeting with steele. that took place around october 1st in rome. at the meeting the fbi official asked steele if he had ever heard of papadopoulos. steele didn't. that raises a question about whether the fbi was sharing information with somebody who was preparing a dossier on presidential candidate that was being funded by the other presidential candidate. even inadvertently. >> is complicated. we should say papadopoulos did not make an appearance in the dossier. he was not there. carter page, another sometime temporary trump aid was in there. the scenario in the ignatius column is that steele writes for first installment of the dossier on june 20, 2016. allegedly meets with the fbi in london on july 4. the fbi ac

it nations completed -- ignatius of the roof,ift reminiscent of mount vernon's growth. the raising -- the rephrasing was only on the front side, leaving the steep pitch of the 1750 roof on the rear. you can see it over there. it is breathtaking to see in person. say that when i worked on this building, in this building for the state of maryland, and engineer came and immediately said the read had to be taken down and rebuilt in steel because there was no smell -load in the framed her. i said when the roof is like snow-load will there be? [laughter] mr. reinhart: washington road riverthe rest home of a merchant he had done business with for at least a decade. although it had yet to receive hill pill was still impressive, with a high hipped roof and classically inspired , all featured shortly to be incorporated at mount vernon. washington accompanied galloway to annapolis that afternoon, where the latter was to raise his famous horse, silly and, one of the two must him as horses continent. washington had arranged to lodge with the reverend voucher at the rectory on hanove

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programfor our first sunday at noon eastern with david ignatius, author of several national security thrillers, including "agents of " and "the quantum spike." our special series on sunday, live from noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> steve bannon and michael wolff's "fire and fury" once again dominated the white house briefing with press secretary sarah sanders. this is about 20 minutes. ms. sanders: good afternoon m.s. we are pleased -- good afternoon it we are pleased to see that the dow jones industrial average broke through 25,000 for the first time ever today. the president's economic engine of lower taxes, less regulation, and more opportunity for all is already paying off, and american families and workers are the big winners. with that in mind, we have a message from a special guess i would like to share with you. i will ask you to tune into the screen, and then i will continue. president trump: thank you for being with us today. the historic tax cut i signed

david ignatius, steve rattner, back with us. joining us now, columnist and deputy editorial.litical reporter for axios, jonathan swan. president trump is officially back from holiday break. getting in the rhythm of morning tweet sprees. wrote just a short time ago, crooked hillary clinton's top aide huma abedin has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols. she put classified passwords in the hands of foreign agents. remember sailors pictures on submarine. jail. deep state justice department must finally act also on comey and others. the if we had about three hours, jonathan, i could get you to go through that line by line. and tell me exactly what the president is talking about. what is this about? >> there are two abiding themes which we've seen repeated again, and, again, and, again. one is calling for the jailing of political opponents. and the second is directing jeff sessions justice department and suggesting that the attorney general jeff sessions doesn't name him, but innuendo there is that jeff sessions is doing his job. and running that justice departmen

the special series, with awe they're david ignatius, sunday, live from noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern on booktv, on c-span2. >> andrew carroll is founder of the legacy project, an effort to preserve soldiers war correspondence and talked about world war one as described by general john pershing, commander of the u.s. forces. this is an hour. [inaudible discussion]

our special series, in-depth, fiction addition, with david ignatius, sunday, live from noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2 on book tv. ," --nday on "q&a >> i propose action instead of words.i propose action now until it is too late . a better world when i say again, and again, and again, that i propose it for our own american self interest. -- hendrickk meyer hank meyer, with his book about the man in the widow of the american century. >> he finds himself in opposition with the democrats elected in the early 1930's take majority of the senate, he is in opposition for the next dozen years. that means to get anything done, which often meant resisting franklin roosevelt's initiatives, there needed to be a coalition. he needed to reach across the aisle. >> "q&a" sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span.

yet again in the last week the very day the new president was sworn in the former finance minister ignatius trumbo was handed it over to the police by the military who had beaten him up severely and while he was held in custody and he and she may actually we're to save some money trouble trouble is that the minister talking about salvation in this way as mentioned told by himself in his testimony in chief you never say to us when he was president wrong is he wrong you know he says he was tortured yes i mean they did it in the activist roya is wrong because the actual person didn't allege that injury and they didn't beat him up now that is pretty much anywhere but you know in a sense activist well you never say that he won't have this very fact a fight in court when for the court record isn't it when when somebody says the planes are not off you that's what we go by that's all oil so why are we making it up as his lawyer said it has a very brutal and draconian way of dealing with pows if he says that's what i can accept very much so and i tweeted about it myself that this is not the way we'r

our special series in-depth fiction edition with author david ignatius sunday live from noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> hi, i'm john farrell, a producer on our cities tour team. this year we visited 24 cities exploring their unique history and literary life. right now we're going to show you several stops from our visit to that coma, washington, a city chosen as the western terminus of the northern pacific railroad. >> the area we're standing in right now is in the southern section of puget sound which is the sort of washington state and the pacific northwest. it's kind of great inland water. when the transcontinental railroad aim, there was talk of one day being able to span puget sound but it really wasn't an undertaking anybody was prepared to do. during the depression, northeasterly policemans like the building of the grand cooley dam and stuff, there were big job creating public works projects happening in the pacific northwest. and in the mid-1930s, there began to be talk about creating a bridge over puget sound to reach from tacoma to the kitsap peninsula.

the special series, with awe they're david ignatius, sunday, live from noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern on booktv, on c-span2. >> andrew carroll is founder of the legacy project, an effort to preserve soldiers war correspondence and talked about world war one as described by general john pershing, commander of the u.s. forces. this is an hour. [inaudible discussion] >> good evening, everyone. thank you so much. rainy day books and the national world war i museum museum and memorial are pleased to welcome andrew carroll, andrew carroll this editor of several "new york times" best sellers including war letters, letters of na pigs and bind he lines am drown also edit an pro bono basis, homecoming which inspired the film of the same name. in 1998, andrew founded the legacy project, an all-volunteer initiative that honors veterans and active duty troop biz preserving their wartime correspondence, he has traveled to all 50 states and more than 40 country, including iraq and afghanistan and has collected today an estimated 100,000 previously unpublished letters and e-mails. andrew dona

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for more, i'm joined now by david ignatius, a columnist at "the washington post" and an nbc news/msnbc contributor and hagar shamali with the u.n. david, let me start with you. these were two examples. we have a bunch more from the last couple of days. when the president does this, when he tweets about any of these topics on twitter. when he's out there calling kim jong-un rocket man, something like that, what is going on behind the scenes in terms of the united states, the other countries around the world, whether it's the countries the president is talking about himself or allies in the world who are wondering what this exactly means. is somebody in the administration on the phone to translate for other countries around the world or is hereveryy out there left guessing? how does it work when he puts a tweet out there like this? >> i think sometimes when there's something very controversial and very confusing, people will go to the nsc, to the state department, but more to the nsc and seek explanation, what exactly does this mean, what is really changing in u.s. policy. i think the tw

yet again in the last week the very day the new president was sworn in the former finance minister ignatius trumbo was handed over to the police by the military who had beaten him up severely and while he was held in custody and he and we're two somalis trouble trouble is that the minister talking about suspension in his west mission told one he himself in his testimony in chief he never said he was a prisoner oh is he wrong you know he says he was tortured yes the minute they did it in the uk to destroy it is wrong because the actual person didn't allege did he tell me and i didn't beat him up not there to beat him up anyway but you know in a sense activist well you never said that he won't have this very hard to fight in court when by the court records isn't it when somebody says a place and or in that's what you go back i saw no making it up as his lawyer said it was a very brutal and draconian way of dealing with problems if you say that but i can accept very much so and i tweeted about it myself that this is not the way i want to do things but so fucking issues the country that you've

your favorite authorities, and i -- authors, and it all kicks off january 7th at noon with david ignatius, author of ten national security thrillers. you can join us live on sunday is, january 7th, or watch it on demand at booktv.org. >> good evening, everyone. can everyone hear me well? good. i'm mary mclaughlin, program coordinator with the smithsonian associates, and i'd like to welcomeo you to what promises to be the very perfect halloween evening. [laughter] on the grisly world of vick vicn surgeon surgery. before we begin, i'd like to ask everyone the please check their cell phones and make sure they are

>>host: david ignatius what is the premise of the quantum spy?>> the united states is locked in a new manhattan project to build a piece of technology that

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the partial god, the lesser god the more realistic god we want to be anchored in the god who saint ignatius and that god is always greater the god who allows us without measure and regret we want to be anchored there because we want god's dream to come true which is to create a community of kinship that god might recognize us in the homey's have to me everything of value. i'm eternally grateful, but in the last few years they've taught me how to text. it sure beats the heck out of actually talking to people. and i'm pretty good at lol and omg, and they tell me a new one, oh and which apparently stands for, oh hell no. use e-mail and quite a bit lately. i can be vexed by this thing so i have a girl named bertha and she texted me on a sunday, where you at i said i'm about to speak for a roomful of sisters, nuns i percent, autocorrect said i was about to form engines. [laughter] which she thought was pretty darn interesting. home is even now before he came a flake the hairs on fire and i just need this amount of money to pay my rent weather going to cut off my lights or whatever so this one ti

yet again in the last week the very day the new president was sworn in the former finance minister ignatius trumbo was hundred over to the police by the military who had beaten him up severely and while he was held in custody and he and to me actually we're two somalis. talking about him in these various vision told by himself in his testimony in chief he never said it wasn't he was a prisoner on the wrong you know he says he was tortured he was the they did it in the uk to destroy it is wrong because the actual person didn't allege and didn't he tell you they didn't beat him up no they just beat him up and he never you know in a sense actually of invest well you never say that he won't have this very hard to fight in court when by the court records isn't it when when somebody says a place and or even that's what would go back as oh are we making it up as his lawyer said it was a very brutal and to colonial way of dealing with a pose if when he says that's what i can accept very much so and i tweeted about it myself but this is not the way we're to do things but so thank you suze the countr

join us for first program and y with david ignatius. our special series "in depth" fiction edition with author david ignatius today live from noon to 3 p.m. eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> next on booktv is afterwards christopher scalia, son of the late supreme court justice antonin scalia shares his father speeches on law, eighth and virtue. .. >> it was one of the most powerful court opinions, he wrote a lot of

. >> with me now is david ignatius, editor for "the washington post." >> i'm joined now by my colleague carol lee. >> covering this administration has sparked an entire industry. >> it's also created some of our best tv friends. >> ashley parker, white house reporter for "the washington post". >> "new york times" political reporter -- >> these people are family because we rely on not just their scoops, which come at a pace that -- it's dizzying. but they have also become our storytellers of this presidency. >> now to you. >> they manage to cover this white house to maintain all the access that they have. >> carol, you are the lead on this story. i'm going to start with you. >> not to take anything away from our investigative unit which breaks stories all the time, but to cover such a disruptive period in politics, whether it was a democrat or a republican, it takes a village. what we get do is showcase all the journalism. >> nbc news learned robert mueller has enough evidence to bring charges in his investigation of former national security adviser michael flynn and his son. >> as we're

program it lets you call and talk to your favorite authors kicking off january 7 at noon with david ignatius you can join us live. >> the book is called race and class and politics. >> also with the transformation across the united states. and they can all not afford downtown so they moved to neighborhood that are low income on the edge of downtown so these are areas that were ones concentrated with poverty and public housing. now they are redeveloping. and the millennial's so property values are increasing and it is gentrification gone wild in washington d.c. so 52% of low income have been gentrified. so with those dynamics so how do you redevelop? and for those who can stay in place with affordable housing policies their life chances are improving. and for many of them but not to be residentially displaced. for cultural displacement and resentment but this is about how do we ease tension to make integrated communities to be more equitable? >> at the government level but there are so many properties that are not tax but the city needs to get revenue. they do that with redevelopment so calli

. >> with me now is david ignatius, editor for "the washington post." >> i'm joined now by my colleagueol lee. >> covering this administration has sparked an entire industry. >> it's also created some of our best tv friends. >> ashley parker, white house reporter for "the washington post." >> "new york times" political reporter nick comfosori. >> these people are family because we rely on not just their scoops, which come at a pace that -- it's dizzying. but they have also become our storytellers of this presidency. >> kasie hunt, thank you. ken dilanian, now to you. >> they manage to cover this white house to maintain all the access that they have. >> carol, you are the lead byline on this story so i'm going to start with you. >> not to take anything away from our investigative unit which breaks stories all the time, but to cover such a disruptive period in politics, whether it was a democrat or a republican, it takes a village. what we get to do is showcase all the journalism. >> nbc news learned special counsel robert mueller has enough evidence to bring charges in his investigation

best-selling fiction writers for program.ly join us for our first program sunday at noon eastern with david ignatius, the author of several national security thrillers, including "agents of innocence," "blood money," and most recently "quantum spy." sunday live from noon to three card p.m. eastern on book tv on c-span 2. the washington center for internships and academic seminars hosted a forum earlier today on political advocacy. first, we will hear on the influence of money in politics. and later, michael steele. all right, folks, let's get started. welcome back. are beingminder, we filmed. when you ask a question, come up to the question mike, state your name and your school and keep your questions nice and concise. it is my great pleasure this introduced [indiscernible] he was the founder and ceo of , andmerican news project others. in 2015, he co-authored "nation on the take," which received praise. he serves on nonprofit boards and advisory boards. let's welcome nick penniman this morning. [applause] nick: thank you for having me here on this snowy morning. that some ofanne you, this is the fi

january 22nd with david ignatius and i hope we'll see many of you at that time. i also want to welcome all of our guests watching this live streamed and especially our many guests watching this on c-span. also, a very special welcome, we're delighted to have 25 students here from washington latin school. washington latin high school. and i think -- i was discussing this with bob dallek how appropriate it is to have a group like this because as he notes in the press -- preface of this book in the time of demoralization, and despite the many fine biographs to which, by the way, he gives enormous and clear and explicit credit in this book, that there's a concern that the younger generation, with limited knowledge of american history, is increasingly unaware of what franklin roosevelt did for the nation and for the world. and also, to demonstrate weight great presidential leadership is like and rekindle faith in young people that n the belief that such leadership is possible. our guest need little introduction especially near washington. one our country's greatest po

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red line, american foreign policy in a time of fractured politics and failing states," and david ignatius, columnist for the "washington post" and msnbc contributor. david, i was following your twitter page on friday shortly after the protests got under way. you tweeted out cell phone videos of protesters in a half dozen cities suggest something important happening there. need more reporting to understand what it means for mideast in 2018. a few days later what, sense do you have of the breadth and depth here and what are you watching for as this plays out? >> i'm still asking pretty much the same questions. this movement is dispersed in many cities more than half a dozen around iran we've seen in the last four days, people in the streets, cell phone videos appear authentic. the crack down appears to have resulted in the ten deaths that you cited earlier. what we don't know is what the organization of this movement is, how coherent it is. really what its demands are. i have a final question that i'd leave with you. there's definitely an anti-khomeini khamenei character to this. anti, the

join us for our first program sunday at noon eastern with david ignatius, the author of several national security thrillers including "agents of innocence," "body of lies," "blood money," and the quantum spy. our special series in-depth fict >>> hi, i'm john feral. this year we visited 24 cities expleering the unique history and literary life. we're going to show you several stops to our visit of tacoma, washington. the western terms of the northern pacific railroad. the area is in the southern section of puget sound, which is sort of washington state and the pacific northwest's great inland water. and when the transcontinental railway came, there was talk of one day being able to expand puget sound. but really wasn't an undertaking anybody was prepared to do. during the depression federal programmed like the building of the grand coolly dam and stuff, there were big job creating works projects happening in the pacific northwest. and in the mid1930s there began be to talk of creating a bridge over puget sound to reach from tacoma to the kitsap peninsula. tacoma narrows bridge was open in

ignatius, to help right him. as he described it to me, they filter out other things in your life that are not very meaningful and focus you on what is important and on god and on jesus and he said basically you pray, and he got into a regimen he says he does to this very day, that helps him even with all the criticism that comes at him and so forth but also helped keep him sober. he says, for 20 years, and i was a little surprised when i showed up at the breitbart embassy, i figured -- the look at him -- i thought he would give me a beer and we would hang out and have beers together. i got this eight-ounce can of coke, and he opened up to me about drinking in his second interview and the role of catholicism and the higher power which you see in the twelve step programs. >> host: in your chapter "bannon and breitbart," he really seems to have hit his love, the way you describe it. so, what do you think in that chapter best describes him at breitbart? >> guest: well, i think he basically got a vehicle to try to --

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