lies a temperament and width of a quickstart loves nothing more then the spirit of his wordsmith mark twain president is treating the constitution worse than a placemat at denny's. >> and now you know. we will be right back. ♪ >> we are live on television 24 hours every -- we are always tweeting and facebooking. there is a great story called the cognitive dissonance election. it is a graphic that shows how we have conservative republicans, and marijuana legalization. >> and there's a great piece on obama. follow us on twitter. we will see you next week. sayonara. ♪ >> one of the most famous lines in hollywood history. >> the truth? you can't handle the truth. >> a few good men catapulted aaron sorkin from an actor to celebrated screenwriter, producer, and conflicted character creator. he went on to bring us the west wing moneyball, the social network, and the newsroom on hbo. if the steve jobs biopic coming soon. joining me today on studio 1.0 and he golden globe an

it's like mark twain said, if you tell the truth you never have to remember a dam thing.tle cynical about it. 2002, we can set up a debate. it included all three of us, myself as well as erskin and elizabeth dohl, and dohl and bowles decided to set up their own advance on the same venue in the same night and cut out both myself and the other voters. they were non-too happy about that. when we talk politics, and talk about the north carolina senate race we are talking about democrat kay hagan, the incumbent and thom tillis, her challenger. but there is a third challenger. libertarian shaun hau. in a polling survey, you poll 11% of the vote. it's respectable. what do you think? >> i'm pretty happy about that. i think it both well not just for me, but any independent or third party candidate. >> i have to ask you the question that people ask about a third party. which candidate do you think you can be the spoiler for. hagan or tillis. >> as far as i'm concerned. they are spoiling my chances. >> republicans, democrats, libertarians, me, either of my opponents, no one owns the

lies a temperament and width of a quickstart loves nothing more then the spirit of his wordsmith mark twain president is treating the constitution worse than a place met denny's -- placemat at denny's. >> and now you know. we will be right back. ♪ . . >> unlike the past couple of days, we are only live half an hour a day for but we are live 24/7 on bloomberg politics.com will stop there is a great story called the cognitive dissonance election that talks about how we've got conservative republicans there that voted for marijuana, fewer abortion restrict didn't -- restrictions. but thank you for watching. we will see you next week. ♪ >> hello, i'm pimm fox, and this is "taking stock -- taking stock." disney earnings barely beating estimates. profit the film studios doublethink to a big lift from "guardians of the galaxy" which was the top grossing film of the year. >> we have a tom -- we have a strong presence in digital platforms and i don't think any traditional media business has done a better job of going digital than espn has. >> cbs today lost -- launched a 24-hour online

mark twain went over the book. he published the book. he found a means of publishing the book that was unique. he created the book club in order to publish grant by sending salesmen around from door to door with pictures of the various leather bindings you could have on grant's memoirs when they were finally published. it was an enormous and imaginative project which changed the face of american book publishing, as i say, invented the book club. he did not, however, change significantly any word that a grant wrote. and grant wrote what he wanted to do. to my knowledge, mark twain never claimed to have had edited grant in that, in that sense. >> host: michael korda, is there an author that you simply would not work with again? because of your experience as his or her editor? >> guest: well, i don't think i'm going to be called to make that decision can unless something truly miraculous should happen. at my age, i'm not planning to make a comeback as editor-in-chief of a major publishing company, even if anybody wanted me to. no. but an au

mark twain went over the book. he published the book.a means of publishing the book that was unique. he created the book club in order to publish grant by sending salesmen around from door to door with pictures of the various leather bindings you could have on grant's memoirs when they were finally published. it was an enormous and imaginative project which changed the face of american book publishing, as i say, invented the book club. he did not, however, change significantly any word that a grant wrote. and grant wrote what he wanted to do. to my knowledge, mark twain never claimed to have had edited grant in that, in that sense. >> host: michael korda, is there an author that you simply would not work with again? because of your experience as his or her editor? >> guest: well, i don't think i'm going to be called to make that decision can unless something truly miraculous should happen. at my age, i'm not planning to make a comeback as editor-in-chief of a major publishing company, even if anybody wanted me to. no. but an author i wou

>> i think mark twain probably. >> interesting. >> yeah, because -- >> favorite book? >> favorite book? what's the name of the book we like so much? "santarum." >> to dana, from christine c, will jasper have a 2015 calendar coming out? please. >> jasper cam is something i do for friends and family. but 2015 is going to be a really good year. we'll start working on it soon. >> we'll have to look at that in the makeup room every day. it's awesome. >> he's a good boy. >> to greg do you read all of your tweets each day? >> no, i read some of them. by before i go any further, there were 43 hospitals that were closed. they were in tennessee, kentucky and georgia. the interesting thing about a calendar, is they'll have one picture per month, so you would think there's 12 pictures of dogs, but she had six pictures, it's actually like cheating. it's like 46 or 48 pictures. to eric, you're always smiling, what is your all-time pet peeve, the one thing that makes steam come out of your ears? it's from the producer, when he just want listen to us. >> i love it. >> kimberly, what d

. ♪ ♪ >> i think mark twain probably. >> interesting. >> very good. >> yeah. favorite book?favorite book? what's the name of the book -- >> santarim. >> dana from christine. will jasper have a 2015jasp calendars coming out? >> what are the groans? the jasper calendar is something i kind of just do for friends>> and family. >> darn it! >> but 2015 is going to be a really good year. >> working on it soon. >> we have to look at that thin. in the make-up room every day. >> it's awesome! >> greg from lynn. do you read all of your tweets each day? >> no. i read some of them. but before i go any further, closed.th 43 rural hospitals, i they're in colorado, kentucky, tennessee and go g. they're more in usa today. as for dana's calendar. usually they have one picture per month. but she couldn't choose, so she had like six pictures. so it'sou w cheating. of it's like there is 48 or 50 but pictures. i read as manyshe tweets as i cl >> it's ay bonus. >> i shouldn't, but i do.atin i enjoy it. >> you read a lot. >> i eat them and eat them and then i throw up. >> very good. eric? you're al

you know, our heroes are not the war makers, not theodore roosevelt, but mark twain.t woodrow, but helen keller. speaking in 2005. viggo mortensen wrote -- read an exit who wrote a short account of the destruction of the indies. inthe indies were discovered 1492. perhaps the most densely populated place in the world. 200e must be close to leaves of land, and it is discovered as a beehive of people. it is as though god had crowded into the land the great majority of mankind, and all the incumbent unit -- infinite universe of humanity, they are the most obedient and faithful to their native masters and spanish christians who they serve. it is are so we can complacent, they are less likely to indoor heavy labor and soon die of no matter what malady. yet into this land of make outcasts, there came a to immediate be behave like wild beasts, wolves, tigers, lions that have been starved for many days, killing, terrorizing, afflicting, torturing, destroying the native peoples. doing all this with the most varied new methods of cruelty never seen or heard of before, and to suc

he goes on to evoke mark twain. i heard once of an american who said the final phase, that which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue. he meant that we shall have an open mind and not let a little bit of truth check the rush of the big truth like a small rock does railroad track. dracula is as much about this problem, the problem of evidence and truth as it is about vampires. in proposing one truth may derail another, this invites enduring question. do we believe vaccination to the more monstrous than disease? deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by god, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions upon millions, in 1847. that was the year he finished works of love in which he insists that love is known not through words but only by its fruits. i read the first 50 pages of works of love in college before giving it up out of exhaustion. in those pages kierkegaard unfolds the command and you shall love your neighbor as yourself, parsing it almost

. >> it look like samuel clemens, aka mark twain. pulls out of massive kennett square house after a fire ripped through. how the building's history had crews fighting to save it. >> lucy get ready for up and down temperatures over the next several days. we're already previewing what to expect for thanksgiving much that's all next. iain. >> all right scott. talk about high honors actually an award for the best public roast restroom and it's right here in the delaware vally. >> wow! >> what just nailed the number one spot in the nation. >> hysterics chester county home goes up in flames. the fire broke out inside this house one of the oldest buildings in kennett square. people living in the neighborhood cannot believe this happened to a landmark in chester county. >> fox 29's jennifer joyce explains why parts of the home can never be replay. >> reporter: skyfox flew overhead as historic shall front mansion in kennett square went up in smoke and flames. >> i was smoke coming out of different windows from the second and third noor and ou

i think mark twain said something, didn't he, about politicians bending the truth. but that's upsetting. and as i say, i just got tired of telling -- people telling me they had already voted. and then i have to ask them who they voted for, and a lot of them say, it's none of your business. which i understand, and i just thank them for being a voter. some people said no, they weren't going to vote. anyhow, i have had some interesting conversations but most of the time it, they hang up or you get a answers machine san host: are you going to continue to make called the next two days, or are you done? caller: the only thing i am going to try to do today is get rid of mitch mcconnell. >> prudence said she worked for moveon.org. can you talk about moveon.org, how it changed the fundraising game for democrats? >> intlooult building off of the clinton's impeachment during the 1998 organization, moveon.org despited never again, we are never going to be cut with our pants down when it comes down to mobilizing the grassroots mobilizing organizers to be able to knock doors. it

this weekend we have the mark twain prize. and we'll have we'll have interaction with the bidens. so, i'm feeling really good about it. thank you. >> what would be your best advice to young women arts administrators who one way want to run an arts organization as you have done? >> nothing worth working for is worth it if you don't put in lots of energy, lots of commitment, lots of sweat. i have dedicated my life to this work and it has reaped dividends beyond what i could ever have hoped for. it is work that requires a true commitment because it is not easy work. it looks glamorous. it sounds interesting. but you don't get as many rewards as you think you get along the way, but those stories of the young women in the detention center, the joy of walking into a theater and seeing hundreds of people enjoying something and you wonder, where did all these people come from? isn't this great? the joy of sharing is the motivation that takes you through everyday. you just have to keep your nose up and keep going because you do feel like you're changing people's lives for the good and that

and his kennedy center mark twain prize ceremony airs on pbs november 23rd.at's all the time we have. thank you. goodnight everybody. >> jimmy: no, no, no. sorry. [ laughter ] you didn't want me to do any of that stuff, but i wanted to do it any way. >> well thank you. >> jimmy: i wanted to give you a plug. >> well thank you. i appreciate that. >> jimmy: thank you for being a -- how am i doing? [ laughter ] >> um, boy, it's that crisp, autumn new york weather. [ laughter ] go outside, get in your lungs. >> jimmy: talking about something else? >> yeah, i mean, you really, yeah, you get it in your lungs and you really feel invigorated. >> jimmy: but thank you for coming on -- >> thanks for having me. >> jimmy: and doing this. i know we -- >> and thanks for calling me over on my first shot. that's amazing. >> jimmy: i think you have a really big career ahead of you. >> why thank you. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i really do. i think you have a really -- i saw something there. yeah. but you remember that moment, you called the -- did you call the comedians over when yo

and in terms of the presidency, the president has faced rumors of his premature demise to butcher mark twain. but here he, is not only talk about a landmark decision but doing so in the context of what makes us americans with rhetoric that is as soaring as anything i have heard from him since 2008 reminding us of the country that we are. >> yes, this is what the president does best, reminding us of the country we are or the country we're supposed to be or the country that we project to the rest of the world. i had the same reaction as you did. i thought last night's speech was incredibly powerful and one that people can hear that this message is not a partisan message. it was an american message and reminding everyone about, one, why people persist in coming here legally or illegally. and, two, that we have to do something about the current system because it's unsustainable. and, three, reminding everyone that you know, the solution is there. the solution has been sitting in the house for 512 days, as he said last night and said just now and as astrid said in the president's introduction. al

to paraphrase mark twain, he said there is no such thing as new idea. it is impossible. stuff in our head, mental kaleidoscope, spin it around and with difficult images and still all the old -- charles: we had the tragic incident earlier today with the vier begin galactic earlier in the week with orbit call sciences. we had flying cars in the 1920s. ford develop ad flying car. engineer that worked on it, was 20 years old, would fly from the house to work. this was one of the little flying cars outside after store you put a quarter in. those safety measures he ended up crashing and dying and they folded it up. you're young, carrie, and you're a dreamer. anything you think of was already thought of. >> that is so depressing. i would love to see a replacement for carbon, carbon fuel. whoever can come up with the fuel -- charles: anything you see in comic book, fuel cells, some sort of thing, we've already thought of it. we just haven't perfecterred it yet. >> i will stump you. we haven't done time travel. if we did -- charles: we thought of it. we will do it. we thought of

this quote is attributed to mark twain, the two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why. in a real quiet moment everyone would agree that is giving up, leaving the camp sites cleaner than we found that but that desire is smothered by layers of hopelessness and discouragement and cynicism and when that could be released, the natural desire to give back is expressed. >> the office of politics, one of the things sam talks about, the need to inspire, not just to motivate but to inspire. having a political system where people with different views have very vigorous debate and think seriously about alternative proposals and have a chance to influence people they selected to make a decision that they will like. is the heart of democracy. politics is what makes democracy and the more we go out and fight against the cynicism, this is how you are empowered to reach out to the people your community has been elected to make a change. a lot of people who feed the cynicism, they don't want to do the work, they want to snap their fingers and get the re

in response to such statements, truman would point to a framed motto of mark twain's written in the author's hand, that he had hung in the oval office. 'always do right!' it read. 'this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.'" and, if, you know -- if there is a message in this book, it's that. it is always do right. you know, what's right, you know, we can talk about vietnam you can talk about iraq and say, you know, that it's -- it's easier to tell it from the vantage point of a quarter century or a century later. but -- but this book is all about presidents who in that moment in history did what they thought was the right thing. c-span: you also bring up a famous old quote in the harry truman book, "i like old joe, he's a decent fellow." and then you go on to describe what clark clifford said to him -- told him not to repeat that. what was the famous line? and what was he thinking? you know, i mean ... >> guest: he liked him. c-span: why -- why did he ... >> guest: he -- he met him and thought he was charming ... c-span: joe stalin. >> guest: yes. he thought joe stalin was charmin

his interests range from mark twain -- >> jon stuart, stephen colbert.slate jon stewart's show. the chinese subtitles and the chinese audiences like it. chinesee of the regular standup comedians, the pioneers of a middle-class breed. >> i was like, i know. i'm from china. [laughter] >> china is opening up more and more. they are pretty much shaped by also the american movies, that makeserything the globe even smaller than ever before. >> western-style comedy is finding popularity here now. there was a letter that says you don't need a democracy but spreadingu do end up democratic ideas. ripe for comedy. -- humor isus news used as a coping mechanism but sometes it's just about meeting people and having a good time. be verythink you might muted but in a room like this, in a room like the others, it's relatively under the radar and you can be open and free enough to speak your mind. small,hina, it is quite but you cannot touch. it's no problem. >> some say such freedom in a controlled society cannot help but prosper freer ways of thought as well. >> watchin

i think mark twain said something about politicians saying the truth, but as i i got tired of people telling me they had already voted and then i have to ask them who they voted for and a lot of them say is none of your business, which --nderstand and i think them thank them for being a voter and --ething they will not vote, anyhow i have had interesting conversations but most of the time they just hang up or you get an answering machine. host: will you continue to make calls for the next two days? guest: the only thing i will do today is try to get rid of mitch mcconnell. for: she said she worked moveon.org, can you talk about how they changed the fundraising game? off of president impeachmentiginal during 1998, the organization decided, never again. we will never again be caught with our pants down when it comes to mobilizing the grassroots. that means mobilizing volunteers , it meansone calls organizing organizers to knock on doors, it means raising money online. they have been very successful at writing those e-mails. on our twitter page, i had 72 political ads in my e-mail yeste

the american people who are having an opportunity to watch this hearing, you understand now -- as mark twain said, there is two things you don't want to see being made, sausages and laws -- but we will get to the bottom of it, figure out the solutions, and i greatly appreciate you being here today this hearing is now adjourned. >> next, live, your closing comments on the "washington journal". >> mr. president, the honeymoon is over. >> the honeymoon is over. >> that honeymoon period is over. he will no longer get what he wants just by being president. >> we are going to take the president had on. the honeymoon is over. host: if this is one of those say, that ou might goes back -- the whole notion for a new moon president. 80 ay this one would go back years or so, when hdr took office. of course, he was working with an overwhelmingly democratic was a lot so it easier to push through his proposals and favor measures, but there has been this notion new president takes office, they get a honeymoon. >> journalist david mark on the world of political terminology. tonight on c-span's "q&a". francin

mark twain. was it?e he is, president obama arriving down under for the g-20 economic summit. instead of focusing on the world's economy western leaders blasting russian president vladimir putin for the crisis in ukraine. >> senior white house correspondent ed henry traveling with our president where president obama had some harsh words for putin. ed? >> he really did. it was interesting at the beginning of the eight-day trip in asia the president started off in china and there, you know, the big news was the climate change deal, but on the sidelines of that summit, he was also talking several times with the russian president vladimir putin. really made no progress. they just sort of exchanged words back and forth on the sidelines of the last summit. this time we're expecting the same to happen. so far the president just meeting with allies, not having a chance to go into any depth with putin just yet. when he delivered a speech here shortly after arriving in australia he really did let putin have it. li

we should take it seriously and all that, but this goes back to the founding -- mark twain said thatctly native class of criminal america except for the congress of the united states. it is kind of amazing, it really is. but people always say, i live in washington, raising my children here, what's such a terrible place. actually it's a great place. but the people that live here that sucks. the people i have a problem with. >> the problem with democracy, we elect people just like us. very representative. it actually work. scandal doesn't usually beat politicians. >> it does not. >> wilbur mills fell into the tidal pool with a stripper, was re-elected after that. huey long was caught selling state land to fund the lsu football team. he said i'm the official thief of lsu. scandal, lie, because it's not about me the voter at all. >> is it how somebody handles the scandal in terms of whether they survive it? >> people don't have very high standards for politicians these days. they're worried more about their money than money politicians may be putting in their pocket. that's just been the

this weekend we have the mark twain prize. and we'll have we'll have interaction with the bidens. so, i'm feeling really good about it. thank you. >> what would be your best advice to young women arts administrators who one way want to run an arts organization as you have done? >> nothing worth working for is worth it if you don't put in lots of energy, lots of commitment, lots of sweat. i have dedicated my life to this work and it has reaped dividends beyond what i could ever have hoped for. it is work that requires a true commitment because it is not easy work. it looks glamorous. it sounds interesting. but you don't get as many rewards as you think you get along the way, but those stories of the young women in the detention center, the joy of walking into a theater and seeing hundreds of people enjoying something and you wonder, where did all these people come from? isn't this great? the joy of sharing is the motivation that takes you through everyday. you just have to keep your nose up and keep going because you do feel like you're changing people's lives for the good and that

grant was dying and also bankrupt when he wrote his memoirs because mark twain invented the idea of payinggrants for the book before it was written. something publishers until that point they had done and it was a huge fortune, so grant thomas bankrupt bankrupt bankrupt in the dying of throat cancer sapped down with pads of paper and a white linen scarf wiped around and rode without anybody's help. remember it is one of the epic and courageous offenses in the history of literature. and we did if sitting on the porch of a borrowed house and while people came by to watch president grant sitting there writing and die in. >> host: in your book grant had a dislike of turning back and retracing his steps. if he set out for somewhere he would get there somehow. whatever the difficulties the lead in his way. the city of secrecy would turn out to be one of the factors that made him a formidable general. >> host: it is very for a general. grant would not go back on his steps and always put his foot where he wanted to go. as a general it was much the same thing. the result is that he took very large

. >> mark twain. >> oh, it was will rogers. will rogers. no penalty, though, for guessing there.> bob marley is correct. 100-point tossup. shuttle bus drivers voted to unionize at this silicon valley social network ing -- victoria? >> facebook. >> that's right. 100-point tossup request question here with trips projected to take 36% longer than usual, thanksgiving eve traffic in had this congested west coast city is expected to be the worst. adolfo? >> l.a. >> susan jumps out to the early lead with 400 points. victoria and adolfo with 100. you could catch up very quickly or susan could run away quickly or fall behind quickly. twice as hard, twice as valuable, twice as much suspense in the room. i can feel it. let's put 100 seconds on the clock. the 200-point round begins with this. the latest installment of this mesh sci-fi adventure twe he en film franchise pulled in thailand -- >> hunger games. >> they think it will incite a rebelli rebellion. monday nancy pelosi appointed democratic congressman ben ray lujan to lead the 2016 effort to retake the house as the chairman of what --

there are two things you don't want to see being made, sausages and laws -- you understand now, as mark twain said, there are two things you don't want to see being made, sausages and laws. i greatly appreciate you being here today. thank you very much in this hearing is now adjourned. . [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, icute, icd visit ncicap.org] >> here are a few of the comments we recently received from our viewers -- >> i just have to tell you that to see these people in person, to hear them have the panel discussion or congressional important tos so and toand the context listen to the statement in its entirety. book tve been watching for a few years and i think it's the greatest program on tv. i like how the authors take the time to present just what they write but also the moderator does a great job of stimulating the conversation. forward to itook on the weekends to watch as much as i can. >> i watch c-span all the time when i'm home. is the only station i have on most of the time. i think it's absolute

and i want to end by a quote from mark twain.mark twain gives a talk to what he calls the mayflower tribes, the descendants of the mayflower. tongue in cheek as always and magnificent as always, he tells them: you guys deprived me of my ancestors. he begins with the first native american. he goes through quakers, through witches, and he ends with the slaves. and he says these are all my ancestors, for i am an exquisite, many-shaded mongrel. and that is the america i want to live in, the land of exquisite, many-shaded mongrels who, like that little kid named huck finn, decided that he will go with his heart against his deformed conscience, and he would save his friend jim and risk going to hell but doing the right thing. and that is the question i wanted to leave you with: how many of us today would rather go to hell but listen to our heart and do the right thing? thank you so much for your patience and thank you. [applause] >> that wraps up our coverage from this year's miami book fair. the entire day's schedule will reair tonigh

i think mark twain said something, didn't he, about politicians bending the truth. but that's upsetting. and as i say, i just got tired of telling -- people telling me they had already voted. and then i have to ask them who they voted for, and a lot of them say, it's none of your business. which i understand, and i just thank them for being a voter. some people said no, they weren't going to vote. anyhow, i have had some interesting conversations but most of the time it, they hang up or you get a answers machine san host: are you going to continue to make called the next two days, or are you done? caller: the only thing i am going to try to do today is get rid of mitch mcconnell. >> prudence said she worked for moveon.org. can you talk about moveon.org, how it changed the fundraising game for democrats? >> intlooult building off of the clinton's impeachment during the 1998 organization, moveon.org despited never again, we are never going to be cut with our pants down when it comes down to mobilizing the grassroots mobilizing organizers to be able to knock doors. it

the american people that are having an opportunity to watch this hearing, you understand now as mark twain said, there's two things you don't want to see being made, sausages and laws, it's a very messy process and it's very frustrating. but we'll get to the bottom of it, we'll figure out the solutions and i greatly appreciate you being here today. thank you very much. and this hearing is now adjourned. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> one of several congressional hearings we're covering today on the c-span network, you'll find them all at c-span.org. we do expect house members to return to work at about 5:00 p.m. eastern, lawmakers have scheduled a passage vote on a bill that makes changes to the qualifications and selection process for those serving on the e.p.a. science advisory board. live coverage when they gavel back in. over in the senate, lawmakers have set up a vote this afternoon on authorizing construction of the keystone x.l. pipeline. with the house passing its keystone bill last week, passage i