you have a flavor of what professor kessler talks about. it is about patrick's book the conservative ideas and personalities through all-american history. that book has the virtue of treating conservatism as an american phenomenon rather than a transplant or derivation of european flawed. >> guest: conservatism has been confused for most of its life in america because it was never quite sure what it was for. in new what it was against. was a bit against liberalism and big government and soviet union and communist imperialism, but not so confident -- some conservatives thought of themselves as traditionalists. they thought the world ended with the french revolution and we were in the after times ever since. libertarian conservatives to state and government as such to some extent. but it seems to me and to -- if you really want to understand where it came from you have to look at american things. conservatism is reacting to the intellectual and political forces that progressivism unleashed at the turn of the last century. the peculiar domesti

kessler, i happen to know that you and ripka have children. so even if you are estranged from your wife, it is the mother of your children. don't you think that you would want to fully cooperate in finding the mother? your children's mother? as opposed to lawyering up? i mean, why wouldn't he tell our show where he was? why wouldn't he say, i was at denny's having a grand slam? i was at mcdonald's having an egg mcmuffin? i mean, why couldn't he tell us that? >> one doesn't exclude the other. you don't have to not hire a lawyer to find your children. certainly when you are the person that's going to be looked at, when you have this family violence issue and you are the sole suspect you need a lawyer. >> alan ripka, to me that's all the more reason you want to put it out there and rule yourself out immediately so cops can focus on the correct perpetrator. >> well nancy, what's amazing here, the person who did this would have had to have been outside the house surveying the house. it's unlikely that her husband would be out there for hours hoping

randy kessler, defense attorney atlanta, allen ripka, defense attorney in new york, randy kessler, don'think if he didn't have anything to hide he would be cooperating fully and be open about where he was. i know where i was at 7:00 a.m. i know exactly where i am every morning at 7:00 a.m. >> the best decision he had was to get a lawyer. he's been through three restaining orders. i'm sure his lawyer says keep it under wraps. >> put kessler up. they have two little girls in common, ages 3 and 5. kessler, i happen to know that you and ripka have children. even if you are estranged from your wife, it is the mother of your children. don't you think that you would want to fully cooperate in finding the mother? your children's mother? as opposed to lawyering up? i mean, why wouldn't he tell our show where he was? why wouldn't he say, i was at denny's have aing a grand slam. i was at mcdonald's having an egg mcmuff. >> one doesn't exclude the other. you don't have to not hire a lawyer to find your children. you are the one who will be looked at. with this family violence order, you need a lawye

for more, we turn to glen kessler at the "washington post." glen, the details of this agreement are just coming out. what do you see in terms of new sanctions. what, specifically, are they targeting? >> what you see is an expansion and ramping up of some of the sanctions. over all, i would say it is reasonably modest. what you have, for instance, in the previous resolution, states were urged to not sell heavy weapons equipment to iran. what you have now is the draft actually says states cannot sell these heavy weapons to iran. at the same time, it doesn't ban light weapons. it doesn't ban energy sales or energy investment. you will see some additional entities and individuals associated with the iranian revolutionary guard core sanctioned by name. that list has not been finalized, but the list has not been finalized. >> the key issue was getting china and russia on board. do we know how tough that was? >> i mentioned some of the things they don't have in the agreement. and to fair to the administration, this particular u.n. resolution was alwa

from newsweek's los angeles times festival of books charles kessler, editor of the claremont review ofooks discusses