at my high school en i heard from oba's speech at that general assembly. >> people are sti talking out charles' model u.n. gh school. >> charles whehe was courting anybodyaid, "i plato dominateou." >> colby king, d you agr with charl' assessmen >> surprisingly, ion't agree with charles on this. the president made a ver imrtant point to sayo the gathering, look, your days of saying is thi a u.s.roblem, those days are over. is a mutual problem mutual challenges we have, and yave responbilities alsoo step up and not just wait for the united states to take the lead. it was a very important change, not just a lite nuance, and s not apologetic. >> i also thi that-- the obama administrationants to resethe way the u.s. interts wit the wor, and that has to start somewhere, and if started with that resolution, that is by. but we have had prious resolutionand speeches and statements that he point fingers at north korea a ira and they did not get as anywhere ither, so tough talk hasbeen tried for a long time and is is an attet at a different approach. >> it is more talk, just soft talk. >> what doou want, middle talk? >

one of the things that stuck in my mind obviously were the water lines on all of the buildings that were so gh off the ground and made you think about what it was really like and the markings on the side of the building left by the search teams which had gone through and checking to make sure there were no dead bodies and animals or what have you. so, about a year after the hurricane, i was invited to do a comic book treatment of the katrina sto on the storytelling website "smith magazine." and here is a screen shot of the first, when it first appeared. i was, as you can imagine i was excited and petried to tell a storof this sort of epic length and comic book form, and i took about four or five months discussing with the editor larry smith thinkingow we wanted to tell this story and how we wanted to frame it and go about trying to make this into a sea realized what comic. and eventually what we decided to do is we chose to tell the story through the voices of six neorleans people that had survived the hurricane. folks froacross the demographic spectrum a with experience from everything from t

my mom used to watch a lot of soap oper. so, i just kind of got addicted to "general hospital." >> yeah. >> jimmy: "gh." >> did you cry a lot?did it! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: wait. what do you mean? we didn't do it. i had nothing to do with it. >> it's a universal "we." i'm very excited about it. >> jimmy: it's very cool. i mean, yeah. did you always want to do this? >> yeah, this is actually my second book of poetry and prose. the first book came out in 2005, and this took about four years to write. so, i'm very proud of it. >> jimmy: it's really cool. and all these stories are true? some of the stories in here? >> yes, everything is true. there are pieces in there that were originally, actually, e-mails to people. and thei sort of had them as e-mail format to begin with. and then i just realized -- it's just a great story on its own. so, i'll put it on there without putting someone's e-mail. >> jimmy: what's with the wrestling? the wrestling story in spain. >> yeah, that was at a lucha libre event in spain where -- >> jimmy: lucha libre is -- >> -- is wrestling with masks, for those of you that don't live in the 2