mencken said, and mencken had kind of the nasty tone to it, that god had thrown a lightning bolt down at darrow after the trial and missed and hit william jennings bryan instead. darrow is much more graces -- gracious. i didn't write it this way but when i was reading and writing about them together i thought of john adams and thomas jefferson. there was a friendship that was always there but a friendship sorter fraught with difficulties and strong opinions and certainly brian and darrow were like that. >> mencken also wrote an absolutely scathing obituary of ryan, which if i have my history right was the only time he was talking to retracting something. he was not sure if retracting what he he said bailout the paper to eliminate that version perform further additions of the paper and did a kinder one which is very unmencken like. in chicago's darrow figure greatly in chicago politics and andrew contends that the move to chicago was central and darrow's development. why don't you talk a little bit about that. >> the trouble about writing about the early parts of clarence darrow is we

mencken called the great. america so i mean you know this is a fun story and i think the real reason why people follow it is because it gives it we think it gives us an insight into the prerogatives of power in the abuse of power not to not even the abuse of power but something weird about power that it turns people into free and weird and i wouldn't even say it as a thing without we are about power quite honestly i found it really boring and you know if you look at all of you know interviews that congressman weiner is out there doing they're all boring he's given the same runaround every time i asked him is it you know have you ever taken a personal photo he couldn't even answer that he said well maybe it's been doctored you would know taking a personal photo of your job and you know what i mean this is where i don't think i was born where he talked about how he couldn't say with certitude you know that's putting into a new you know another phrase like refute or whatever you see people when they're flustered

mencken the journalist once said, "for every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and ron." wrong." what are the solutions to food security that you see as wrong? >> some countries have decided to take the position that they will limit the capacity to export. they develop bans on the export of commodities which distorts the market and creates potential for higher cost than would otherwise occur. at a time and there are difficulties, the initial reaction of folks is to sort of look inward and try to hang on to what you have. i think that is precisely the opposite of what we should be doing. this is a tremendous challenge but a great opportunity for us in the united states to develop a relationship -- relationships it will be willing to look outward. the same thing should be true for other countries. major players consider export bans -- they distort the market and make it more difficult for the rest of us to have transparency of market information to properly priced at properly forecast and properly estimate the status of food which makes it harder for the developi