[applause] >> is a journalist, i can hear molly ivins's ghost all around here.i'm happy to be here. [applause] >> i also wanted to talk to you guys about the trauma of family separation that you both experienced long before this became an issue along the border. or at least an issue causing so much outrage with the trump administration separating children from their parents. i really related to both of your depictions because of my own lifelong quest to search for a father i felt wasn't there. i grew up believing he had paranoid schizophrenia. even when he was in front of the i felt i couldn't quite grasp him but you haven't seen your mother since you were a child. can you talk about that? >> know. that is why i wrote the book. because i wanted -- the trigger for me was when i got arrested in mc alan. you all know what mc alan is. i said that in wisconsin yesterday and nobody knew what it was. mc alan, i got arrested in mc alan, was detained for eight hours and they separate you by gender. i was with the boys. this was in 2014 when people didn't really care, whe