. >> charlie went on to prestigious cornell university in ithaca, new york, where the as excelling. >arlie is a very accomplished young man overachiever as it related to grades, as it related to sports, as itelated all h be the perfect kid. >> but behind charlie's affable demeanor and broad smile, there wasy there was distress in the household. >> police had been called to the tan home more thanes over the years and just weeks before her husband would be and apparently wk;5rrified, jean 11 again. >> are you injured? >> yes i and i'm so scared. please, please call me. nih please come. please come help me. >> then just a week later something happens charlie rushing back to his parents home from his dorm at cornell, where he reportedly told his football coach tn't be here for ing tomorrow. >> and his coach said, you know what'srong? he said, i got some things i got to do and you know get home. >> we've speculated and assumed that there was some communication between charlie and his caused him at that point to pack up his belongings and come home and assist her i some way. >> just four da

that's what you called it i was just happy and and then moved to ithaca where at cornell had a job in their news bureau a science writer. and i was able to get that job when carl sagan, frank drake, hans-peter were all the faculty. and i could interview them and, write about what they were doing and that job was a a second university education. it really was fantastic. and i've worked freelance a lot again, always writing science. and i was for a couple of years at the times where the job i supposed to do was general assignment science, writing, technology and at the last minute they they changed to writing about psychology and psychiatry about about which i knew little. this is just to tell you don't believe you read in the newspaper you know, just just because you get the byline doesn't mean you're really expert and that was that was terribly stressful. yes. oh and they one of the things they did was volunteer as a human subject in a research project that was interesting. so so yeah, it was it was a singular and informative. but i prefer being a former reporter for the new york time

that's what you called it i was just happy and and then moved to ithaca where at cornell had a job in their news bureau a science writer. and i was able to get that job when carl sagan, frank drake, hans-peter were all the faculty. and i could interview them and, write about what they were doing and that job was a a second university education. it really was fantastic. and i've worked freelance a lot again, always writing science. and i was for a couple of years at the times where the job i supposed to do was general assignment science, writing, technology and at the last minute they they changed to writing about psychology and psychiatry about about which i knew little. this is just to tell you don't believe you read in the newspaper you know, just just because you get the byline doesn't mean you're really expert and that was that was terribly stressful. yes. oh and they one of the things they did was volunteer as a human subject in a research project that was interesting. so so yeah, it was it was a singular and informative. but i prefer being a former reporter for the new york time

this is rate in ithaca, new york. caller: good morning and thank you for taking my call. thought it was a very good press conference. i think the polling shows that people like so far the transition. i think he has a broad base of support at this point, and i think a lot of the calls of bitterness, let's give the new president a chance. i don't think joe biden could have given a press conference that long anymore. i don't think kamala harris ever gave real answers, and that is why they did not win. there has to be some self reflection on the democrats why this is resonating with the american people. i think it is resonating because people want some changes and so far, so good. host: that is ray in ithaca, new york. halfway through the first segment of "washington journal." simply getting your response, your reaction to yesterday's more than one hour-long press conference by president-elect donald trump in his first press conference since six weeks ago, election day. several viewers have already brought up his comments this morning about the media, especially in the wake o

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rick, ithaca, new york. good morning, rick. caller: good morning. thank you for the opportunity.ny wonderful things to say, but i think the one that i will say is that jody carter wrote many books. you may have mentioned it and i didn't hear it. some were very profound and wonderful, meaningful for me. i would commend them to people and to people and suggest they take a look online and see if there is something there that they might find worthile and helpful to them. thank you very much for your time. host: that was eric in new york. former president carter did do interviews with c-span, talking about several of the books he wrote over the years. he also did several events. this is from the smithsonian back in 2010. here he is talking about his reelection defeat in 1980. >> as 1979 became 1980, this began to eat heavily into the political year of 1980, the year for which you have been planning to run for reelection. fighting off primary opponents from your own party. >> for a while. [laughter] >> did you, was there a point where you realized -- they are still there and now this i