i also think of the famous narcissism of small differences. people don't like trump because he's loud and mouthy but what has he actually done? k-kilo word taxes a little bit. he's negotiated with north korea for the first time. that's pretty good. the reality of it and what people attack him for our different planets but that's not to say that right is pure. they are not. we are living in a bifurcated culture. in the history of civilization, things couldn't be better. it's pretty strange. >> host: good afternoon and welcome. this is the last segment from the festival. screenwriter, author, founder roger simon. we want to put the phone lines up to participate in the program 202, we are talking about conservatives in hollywood and political opinions and we will explore is a little bit more. (202)748-8200 in the east and central time zones. 748-8201 for those in the mountain and pacific time zones. mr. simon, most recent book as i know best how narcissism is destroying the republic if it hasn't already. in the book you've spent quite a bit of ti

that's moral narcissism. now, after i wrote the book, people came up with the term called virtue signaling, which is similar but virtual signaling is what a moral narcissist does. they signal virtuous they are because they're moral mass cyst. in my -- narcissist. the nomen was the name, those people who lived high up in the soviet society, stalin was called comrade, filing cabinet because he has a list of all the people in the know know nomenclatura and -- who always thing the same way ordinarying could what they're supposed to think and therefore become part of that class. they're moral mass cysts. the entire russia collusion event, which happened while -- after the book, is a moral narcissistic idea because they all wanted their collusion but there was no collusion. if there were collusion, they're the worst detectives on the history of the planet. this is has been going on -- feels like it's been going on for a century with no evidence of collusion whatsoever. when obama included with russia, we all saw it

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he's king narcisse in this in this bone fire of discussed in fact a tom wolfe reference by the way who passed away recently rest in peace tom wolfe fantastic writer part of the new journalism school in america when america was great so part of what the new york times piece looking at this data finds is that since the one nine hundred eighty s. and i think it's part of financialization and the rise of these runty ace they just extract equity at that built by previous generations built by. they apple extract all the equity from their company now built a company built by steve jobs and his innovation and his ideas well here we had the same thing is they we were equal to our other competitor developing developed nations at the time and then what happened is the rise of. basically like vast bureaucracies you would think that a socialist more socialist system like france or germany would have a bigger bureaucracy but in fact america has a bigger bureaucracy they find in their healthcare system vast paperwork anybody who has ever experienced both of the systems there are a lot of people right

not talking about a physical death, but to wipe stubbornness and denial and ignorance, arrogance, narcissism, white good us, white beer, white privilege, death to white denial, to the self-righteous and the philosophical purity, the white illusion of safety and innocence, that the death of non- complicity and all those tricks white people play with themselves to convince themselves that they are fine, they are the good ones, the, the sophisticated ones, the uncomplicated allies. i know about risk to ask others to listen courageously that would be the embodiment. when i published a paper on trayvon martin it generated comments and one person wrote to me, quote them in your stock and trade his guilt, your vision is payback. you peddle your hatred and that makes you a racist, the very evil you accuse me of. i read you on a summer's eve. there's a special place in hell for those that lead others astray. say hello to kennedy and hitler when you get there. and that's a nice one. ..

he's king narcisse in this in this bone fired. of discussed in fact a tom wolfe reference by the way who passed away recently rest in peace tom wolfe fantastic writer part of the new journalism school in america when america was great so part of what the new york times piece looking at this data finds is that since the one nine hundred eighty s. and i think it's part of financialization and the rise of these. days they just extract equity that built by previous generations built by say apple extract all the equity from their company now built a company built by steve jobs and his innovation and his ideas well here we have the same thing is they we were equal to our you know other competitor developing developed nations at the time and then what happened is the rise of. basically like vast bureaucracies you would think that a socialist more socialist system like france or germany would have a bigger bureaucracy but in fact america has a bigger bureaucracy they find in their healthcare system vast paperwork anybody who has ever expe

he's king narcisse in this. in this ball of fire of discussed in fact a tom wolfe reference by the way who passed away recently rest in peace tom wolfe fantastic writer part of the new journalism school in america where america was great so part of what the new york times piece of looking at this data finds is that since the one nine hundred eighty s. and i think it's part of financialization and the rise of these runty ace they just extract equity that built by previous generations built by say apple extract all the equity from their company now built a company built by steve jobs and his innovation and his ideas well here we have the same thing is they we were equal to our other competitor developing developed nations at the time and then what happened is the rise of. basically like vast bureaucracies you would think that a socialist more socialist system like france or germany would have a bigger bureaucracy but in fact america has a bigger bureaucracy they find in their healthcare system vast paperwork anybo

narcissism, can you see the reflection in this murder? exactly.n excellent idea for mr trump to speak in parliament, as the democratically elected leader of the largest trading partner, biggest inward investment and the guarantor of an 0live said and done of our security. the bosses of china and saudi arabia have been invited so why not him? that's enough digbyjones! last story. in the daily mirror. it's another human angle on the windrush scandal. we must remember the human and stop obsessing with process, we are talking about a grandmother, i am not sure if she is coming from jamaica. she was not able to get back into the uk. nine years. she has probably been in the uk for 50—something years, so many of these examples, i suspect she is the tip of the iceberg, people caught up in the hostile environment, people who have passports who have gone to jamaica and cannot get back and there are loads of people like that, this is the next flag of the story. cani this is the next flag of the story. can i ask you, i don't understand this. there was a civil

we're comparing size, the handwriting expert s's signatur is no shrimp. >> it's the epitome of narcissismhanging the president's signature. when it comes to certain presidents and authors the writing is not just on the wall. it takes up the whole wall and can take big hands to sign a big signature. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> all right. thanks. >>> a family in the netherlands got a little too close with nature. what happened between them and several cheat cheetahs while ta pictures at a safari park. we have a short amount of time to get our patient to the hospital with good results. we call that the golden hour. evaluating patients remotely is where i think we have a potential to make a difference. (barry murrey) we would save a lot of lives if we could bring the doctor to the patient. verizon is racing to build the first and most powerful 5g network that will enable things like precision robotic surgery from thousands of miles away as we get faster wireless connections, it'll be possible to be able to operate on a patient in a way that was just not possible before. when i move my hand

>> i think that this is one day that i had hoped the president would put his narcissism in check. i served overseas in a war zone alongside men and women who died in the line of duty. i think all of us have been touched by that. and this is a day, as so many others have said, when we remember their sacrifice. this is not a day for the president to put his narcissism on full display. >> i mean, think about what he was doing here. he's posturing -- he's turning veterans into political pawns and saying that posthumongously -- >> a personal report card. >> -- and saying, if they were alive, they would love what i'm doing. i can't think of anything more bizarre than to take dead soldiers and say, they would support my presidency and inject them into the polarized debate that we have right now. >> it's impossible to speak for them. they are not here to speak. and it's impossible to know how they would feel. and one thing that you can bank on is that there would probably be a lot of opinions. there are a lot of people who have given their lives for this country. and we certainly remember

. >> correlates with narcissism, with ego, a grandiose sense of self-importance.nt i don't need to obey margins. i can just scribble like i'm a movie star or a rock star. >> reporter: or a president, or a best-selling author. trump supporters dug up j.k. rowling's signature, i guess you're no different then. >> it is funny. she is throwing stones about donald trump, but she also has a really big signature, which i think is a success trait. >> reporter: that goes for both of them, but gra-- while presid trump's signature looks like a hacksaw. >> his sharp, angular, scissor like ms and ns, basically a lack of compassion. >> it looks like the result from a polygraph. he's laying, of course. a polygraph, a sithe -- perhaps trumpian. >> it's really the epet my of narcissism. >> internet pranksters keep changing the president's signature. when it comes to certain presidents and authors, the writing's not just on the wall, it takes up the whole wall and it can take big hands to sign a big signature. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> and thank you all for joining us. "ac 360

the word you heard yesterday so much was narcissism. >> yeah.s is an answer to the question you posed earlier, which is you have a president who is surrounded by people who are unable to say to him, no. that's not how you're going to express yourself. he's just -- it's so unfortunate that this instinct of self agrandisement comes through from this institution, from the presidency of the united states and there's nobody around who has the ability to say, no, that's just not something you're going to send out on a day like this. it's a real disrespect, i think, for our military and for what the meaning of the day was. >> we will get into that conversation about what the new communications strategy is from the white house. john kirby, david gregory, thank you both very much. >> congratulations, berman. >> thank you very much, david. >>> all right. >> he knows me and knows me for too long. he knows the truth. >> he knows what victory this is for the underdog. >>> meanwhile, senior white house staffers are reportedly taking a backseat to one person w

. >> this is one day that i had hoped the president would put his narcissism in check. >> i don't think anybody should question the president's commitment to our veterans. >> our whole country pledges to you, we will never forget our heroes. >>> alberto dumping heavy rain across the south, huge flooding. >> they're devastated as you can expect. they have gone through hell and now they're facing it all again. >> announcer: this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman. >> what do you think of how he pronounces your name? >> he's added a sill bell to my name. he seems to put a question mark at the end of your name, maybe your name isn't alisyn camerota. >> announcer: alisyn camerota. >> maybe he means is "new day" really with alisyn camerota? maybe my position is more precarious now because he's given you a definite seal. >> announcer: john berman. >> wow. we need to take this up with james earl jones. how are you feeling? >> i feel great because james earl jones added ed ed a sill b my name. we have one hour down and a few more to go maybe. >> that's right. there's no letup in t

i resist what i continue to think about as the narcissism of the present, as though social d dia is somehow a more nefarious and woanging force than movable type, or radio or television. at every point of quantum leaps of communication in a democratic culture -- lowercase d -- we have had fears and anxieties th. would lead to demagogue it is true that television, both the social-media world and the reality tv world -- remember, trump was known to most americans as the host of "the apprentice" more than anything else -- did givee us demagogue the founders feared. that is unquestionable.t e constitution acknowledges our appetites and ambitions, and we are going to get through this, perhaps with a l t of broken furniture, but i think we will st standing. katty: always good to be on the side of churchill. you can never go far wrong on that one. you talk about america -- youke and i have sabout this twfore as being a country in constant conflict n the better angels and the darker angels, the best and worst instincts. but isn't that true of every country? isn't that true of great britain or germa

wall affected by their great loss but of course also honoring the victory that is the defeat of narcissism and fascism as well but when you actually standing on red square and i know they were cranking up their engines right here next to you i know they were cranking up the big diesels i know you got the start of it but when they came rumbling by me daniel i couldn't hear anything i couldn't feel anything my feet just coming back to normal now it's the vibrations they make every cool postle in your body go bonkers not obviously you don't want to . glorify weapons of war these are the deadliest instruments known to man created by man to kill him out and obviously it's a bit of a sad state of affairs when the need is that we need to show off such an array of deadly weapons however given the geo political climate we're in as vladimir putin said during his speech as well sometimes it's necessary to show in a way and not talk prevention to just stop some sort of recurrence of the lot the last great war that did happen seventy three years ago but when you are there in the smoke in the vibrations

corgan had a particular focus on the dark triad traits of narcissism, murky belly is, josh machiavellianism and sociopathy. they also conducted behavioral research on online trolling. how did you learn all of this and can you describe those projects in more detail? mr. wylie: at the time, the -- dr. cogan told me about some of the research he was doing. he also told the company about some of the research that was being done. by that team in russia. his email correspondence from the firm that referenced the work he was doing for the russians. it was initially through conversations i had with the -- with dr. cogan and later through the investigative reporting that has been done for the past year, more details have emerged as well. sen. lee: ok. professor hersh, the use of social media to micro-target is a fairly new practice. it's my understanding that to micro-targeting itself is not. sadly, the use of provocative information to either divide the electorate or to mobilize portions of the electorate has a long history in our country's political campaigns. is the use of social media to micro-t

that's rooted in narcissism. as we have discussed, there are always precursors to that.s signs and we will find some here. we have to heed those signs. for the few people where the signs are not enough and they splip through the cracks, we have to harden the targets. >> only a couple of seconds. we have not heard much about the parents. someone close to him knew something. >> yes, i agree. somebody will come up and tell us a lot more about this person. you might get indications from the parents. probably the friends closest to him will be the people that provide you with the motive for this crime. right now, there are five motives to active shooting. one is revenge. this is not anti-government sentiment or anti-religious or an act of terrorism as we know terrorism to be. we will take a look at the revenge motive. the other motive would be pure evil. it may be a combination of both. >> motivation does matter in our society today. thank you both. a new bombshell "new york times" article. there is a big debate raging. did robert mueller have it wrong? should he have investi

he allowed his personal politic and narcissism to get in the way of doing his job as one of the mostited states government. he's making matters worse he day, lou. lou: i'm not going to let the fbi agents off in the field. i don't know of one who has had the guts to say this is wrong. instead they have their guns drawn as they go into paul manafort's house in a free-dawn raid and frisk a man's wife. this fbi surveilling the president's attorney. this is not kowrk. these are not -- this is not courage. these are not g-member. -men. this is a force that has come up in place of the fbi. i find their conduct from top to bottom reprehensible. >> i have to admit and i haven't said this before. i am truly saddened. before i came into the white house, my day job was i had a company training fbi agents. i worked with literally thousands of them over the course of 5-6 years. you will find people who will obey the orders in any country. they are the people used in these raids. why have we not seen one, just one whistleblower from within the fbi, thousands of agents. lou: they are not standing up

very interested in narcissism -- >> host: oh, that's a good one. >> guest: -- which we all became interested in in the last two years. >> host: yeah. >> guest: and what that comes from, you know, it's -- there's a lot to read. there's a lot of history, a lot of things i want to know about that. >> host: it sounds like a great book, and i will be the first to buy it. >> guest: thank you. >> host: thank you, great. [laughter] >> if you'd like to view are other "after words" programs online, go to booktv.org, type "after words" into the search bar and all previous "after words" episodes will be available. >> c-span where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >> here's a look at some of the current best selling nonfiction books according to indiebound. topping the list is former fbi director ja

conservative in tinseltown and here is his most recent book called i know best how moral how northerly narcissismis destroying our republic if it hasn't already. i want to let you know also that roger l. simon is a hollywood screenwriter, busted loose, came

and i'm not talking about a physical death but a destitute white stubbornness, white and it's a, narcissism, goodness, fear, privilege, white denial, self-righteousness, illusions of safety and innocence, heroic vietnam complicity cultural tricks white people play to convince themselves that they are fine but they are the good ones, the uncomplicated allies. others listen to undergo the. when asked if i published a piece in "the new york times" and the article generated over 600 comments and one person wrote to me your trade is white guilt, your vision of justice is payback. white is because of your problems. you peddle your hatred that makes you a racist an of the evl you are accusing me of. there's a special place in hell for those that lead others astray. say hi to kennedy and hitler when you get there, "-end-double-quote and that is a nice one. you may also know i wrote a very controversial letter that generated over 2,000 comments and for that i received a lot of hate mail, maybe the trail with supremacist responses and in my university inbox, voicemail and even snail mail. i even rece

the level of narcissism when it comes to the ability that the president has on this specific issue of racism which is still present in this country, he could have led on this issue, and he chose instead to talk about himself, and that's probably the most disturbing thing to me about what he said. >> you heard the president's attorney, rudy giuliani, the former new york mayor say that robert mueller would be, quote, doing a comey if he doesn't release his report by mid september. the president himself has expressed his belief that mueller's investigation is meddling in the midterm elections. should the special counsel release his findings if it's close to the elections? >> well, first of all, the irony of rudy giuliani questioning the timing of mueller's release of investigation? i didn't hear rudy giuliani talking about comey and what he did in the days leading up to the 2016 election, and all of a sudden he's concerned about meddling? look, the -- you don't determine the timing of an investigation. when you finish seeking out the facts and getting the gathering the ed and speaking to

i'm not sure of it at right now but very interested in narcissism which we all became interested in in the last two years. what that comes from, you know, there's a lot to read. there's a lot of history, a lot of things i want to know about that. >> host: it sounds like a great book and i will be the first to buy it. >> guest: thank you. >> host: thank you. great. >> if you would like to the other "after words" programs online, go to our website at booktv.org. type "after words" into the search bar and all previous "after words" episodes will be available. >> c-span where history unfolds daily. in 1979 c-span was created as a public service like america's cable-television companies and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court in public policy dance in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you either cable or satellite provider. >> i think more and more cities are realizing they need to have something like a livable wage. the truth of the matter is a lot of people in the private sector are realizing it as

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someone is narcissistic and they post selfies all the time because they suffer from an element of narcissismat is cited in this study was a bunch of young women constantly taking selfies of each other you have to understand that the devices are addictive. i don't necessarily think and it hasn't been proven that it comes from a place necessarily from a narcissistic place. >> tucker: really? >> yeah. >> tucker: so if you find our own face the most interesting image in the world, that is not self-involvement? it seems like it to me. >> i know but actually think about it, tucker. wouldn't you think if that is how you are spending your time and it impairs your daily function it's coming from a place of maybe perhaps low self-esteem? so we are flooded all the time -- these device, understand instagram and facebook, all the social media platforms are built to be really addictive. and you can't talk to any marketing or p.r. agency that doesn't say if you are trying to build a brand or a business that you shouldn't post pictures of yourself. that is the message we are sending constantly. the greatest

2016 was like invasion of the body snatchers one after another may be not so bad to embrace this narcissism. may be this con man is the era of ronald reagan and maybe it's not so bad. you have this compromising values i can tell a lot of you are as old as i am i am old enough to remember when republican actually said character matters. do you remember that? that moment there was a moment i was watching cable television and education secretary says get over your moral vanity i will use the word i was actually thinking that he wrote the book of virtues the book of freaking virtues and now donald trump so to watch a movement that claimed it was about fiscal restraint and small government and free trade in american exceptionalism that would be offended by the idea russia was attacking our democracy remember when conservatives thought that would be a bad thing? but now we saw an embargo by people that i worked with then you get diverse desire and things that you want and you conservative judges and tax cuts and regulatory reform but then you find out the cost is greater than you expected. so i s

it's just pure, all enveloping narcissism. >> is it possible he has the wrong definition of the job,ng it by the old job? like a candidate who looks at polls and say, if you're in the office, it's not about polls anymore, it's about the work and the public interest and maybe what the history books will say, whether he did a good job. >> he's either going to get swallowed by that, or he's going to change the rule book. >> right. >> so it's entirely possible that he's understood something about the popular psyche that the rest of us didn't believe was possible. >> michael hershorn, a deep thinker, who's never thirsty. thank you for being here. we'll be right back. (slow jazz music) ♪ fly me to the moon ♪ and let me play (bell ring) you wouldn't accept from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase relieves your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills don't. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. most pills only block one. flonase. to bring together a group of remarkable people. to help save the universe... from paying too much on their

. >> the negotiations between kim and trump will be a dance of narcissism so you're going to see kimident will do the same with kim. >> tonight, experts are warning about what could happen if the summit doesn't go well or if a deal is reached and north korea doesn't live up to it. they're concerned president trump's whipsaw emotional nature will lead him to get angry and lead him back on the path of possible confrontation with north korea and maybe consider a military strike, wolf? >> brian, there have been signs in recent days of how tough it's going to be for president trump to get a strong deal on denuclearization with the north koreans. >> china's news agency says during his recent trip to china, kim jong-un said the korean peninsula could be denuclearized if the u.s. and south korea were ready to "take synchronous measures for the realization of peace. experts are interpreting those signs that kim will demand huge concessions for giving up his nuclear arsenal, including something president trump and the americans won't be prepared to give up. >> we'll see what happens in that su

white denial of death to white physiological ignorance of death to white arrogance at death to narcissism, a death to a white privilege of death to white denial of death to white self-righteousness of death to philosophical purity and death to illusions of safety and innocence combat death to claims of non-complicity of death to all of those triggs to white people sway with themselves to convince themselves that they are the good ones, the sophisticated ones on complicated weight. i know about the risk and the failure to undergo that require death that requires embodied -- i published a piece on trayvon martin in "the news york times" to the article generated over 600 comments. one white person wrote me quote your stock in. is white guilt. your vision of justice is payback. you peddle your racial hatred and that makes you a racist. a very evil you accuse me of. i read your screen on a summer sea. you write like one produce a special place in for those that lead others astray. say hi to teddy kennedy and hitler when you get there" math. and that's a nice one.

i see how they're exploiting the narcissism, the egotism, the arrogance in the white house.to the credit of the united states. they're exploiting it to the credit of their own countries. and it worries me because what it's turning out to be is the u.s. isolated, the u.s. increasingly alone, and the u.s. having to stand up for itself making america great again, if you will, in the sense that we're really making america weak again and divorcing ourselves from all the things post world war ii, policies, both security and foreign, that made us strong in the first place. >> trita, netanyahu's presentation today centered on the basic idea, it went like third-quarter the iranian regime has been deceptive and lied about the intents of their nuclear program in the past-b what they were doing with it, they've always maintained it was purely peaceful, there's evidence that's not the case and ergo, because they are deceptive and because we can document this, they are not a regime with whom one can have a deal. what is your response to that? >> well, it's actually the argument the israel

it again speaks to this president's genetic incapacity because of his narcissism, because of his titanice first, to put the country first, every time it's about donald trump's self-interest. you see this all around. from the pigs at the trough enriching themselves financially to the electoral calculation, to this president, it's all a game. it's all a reality show. it's a script for tomorrow's episode. but the real possibility is is that we could see a bad deal that threatens not just the security of this country, but the security of this region because of the constant inept tudev and incompetence we've seen across the depth and the breadth of the administration. so that our north korea strategy is somehow tied to his perilous midterm electoral strategy is another moment of disgrace for this administration. >> steve -- i said this when he started the trade war with china. what scares me about this president obviously a denuclearized north korea is a positive thing, but what is he capable of for just his own narcissistic -- is he capable of taking us to war? the mueller thing heats up. as

what we see here is narcissism. right, without all the pomp and circumstance.gard to the public good. >> add cheesiness to that. >> a whole bunch of words we could use. what we see here is a combination of bad moral character, a disregard for the public good, distilled in this one person, which suggests that our -- i go back to our first segment, stephanie. we are in deep trouble. democracy is in deep trouble. because we have people who claim to lead who have no interest in the basic precipes of the public good. who have no interest in democracy as such. scott pruitt is donald trump on steroids without money. right. so he is just out for scott pruitt. and the entire cabinet seems to me to be out for themselves. now, the question is, does this go beyond these individuals and cut to the republican party? does it go beyond the republican party and cut to the very state? all of these folk who claim a hold on government. we are in a crisis moment. and we need to understand that. we need to see it without -- >> let's just talk about the job security. there are republ

narcissism. >> internet pranksters keep changing the president's signature. when it comes to certain presidents and authors, the writing's not just on the wall, it takes up the whole wall and it can take big hands to sign a big signature. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> and thank you all for joining us. "ac 360" starts now. >>> good evening. john berman here in for anderson. a late day surge of developments. cnn has confirmed that a new cabinet secretary has threatened to quit after being berated by the president. we have a brand-new cnn poll out about the mueller investigation. a huge spike in the number of republicans who say the president should not testify, but we begin in low places. a comment from a white house official about senator john mccain that is at a minimum insensitive, quite possibly flat-out odious. president trump himself has a long checkered history when it comes to the arizona republican who survived five years as a prisoner of war. the president once questioned whether he was a war hero saying, quote, i like people who weren't captured. as

and if you're talking to someone who is self-absorbed appeal to their narcissism use it. leverage it. we learn that from the saudi when is they projected faith on side of his hotel and got exactly what they wanted out of it. exactly like it's the bat signal. [laughter] well i think that's a pretty good place to end. [laughter] ladies and gentlemen, john meech im. [applause] you're watching booktv on c-span2 withtop nonfiction books and a authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> and this memorial day weekend it's three day of booktv. on our afterwards program, former national intelligence director james clapper offers his insights on u.s. intelligence community. he's interviewed by democratic congressman jim himself of connecticut. also this weekend, pulitzer prize winning historian john exer ploars critical moments in american history. former israeli prime minister barack talk about his career and future of the palestinian conflict and historian edith recount how austrian doctor work led to a better unctioning of autism wases complicit in death of

if you're talking to someone who's self-absorbed, appeal to their narcissism. >> we learned that from the saudis when they projected his face on the side of the hotel. >> yeah. it's like the bat signal. [laughter] >> exactly. well, i think that's a pretty good place to end. [laughter] ladies and gentlemen, jon meacham. [applause] >> booktv tapes hundreds of author programs around the country all year long. here's a look at some of the events we're covering this week. tuesday we're here in the nation's capital at the national press club for fox news' bret baier exploring ronald reagan's efforts to end the cold war. wednesday we're at the lbj presidential library in austin, texas, to hear cnn's chief washington correspondent jake tapper on his novel about capitol hill. also that evening we're in philadelphia at the free library where radio and tv host michael summer connish will share his thoughts on the current political climate. thursday we fly out to seattle to hear peter stark detail the early military career of george washington. and saturday we're at the reagan library in californ

watching them in the past who have seen that recognition and -- >> it feeds the kind of criminal n narcissism that's often present. i have jim cavanaugh able to join us by telephone, msnbc law enforcement analyst, retired atf special agent in charge. jim, how does it affect the investigation, the presence of these explosive devices beyond speaking to premeditation? >> well, it's planning. it shows a real depth of preparation and desire. it could also indicate a desire -- we've seen some devices thrown out on the street and so forth. but the agents and detectives have to go to those locations where the killer was from and first look for secondary -- seek for secondary bombs but they have to look for other victims. sometimes a shooter will kill a family member. . they'll kill a parent, a mother. you think of newtown killing. killed a mother, and then went to the school and killed. so they have to look for other victims. i don't know that those answers are in yet. but clearly this looks like a boilerplate from columbine which some of these shooters have done. you have the trench coat, the com bo

a death to white narcissism. a death to white colorization. a death to white privilege. a death to white denials. a death to white self-righteous. a death to white illusions of safety and innocence. a death to heroic whiteness. a death to claims of none app non-complicity. a death to all of those tricks that white people play. with themselves is to convince themselves they are fine, that they are the good ones, the sophisticated ones, the uncomplicated white allies. i know about risk and failure of white others to listen corageously to undergotha required death, that required, embodied unsuturing. for example, i published a piece on trayvon martin in "new york times" in the section called the stone. the article generated 600 comments. one white person wrote to me, quote, your stock in trade is white guilt. your vision of justice is payback. whitey is the cause of all your problems. you pedal your racial hatred. that makes you racist. the very evil you accuse me of. i read your screed on a summer's eve. you write like one. there is special place in hell for those that lea

corey had a particular focus on the dark triad traits of narcissism, murky belly is, and sociopathy. they also conducted behavioral research on online trolling. of thisyou learn all and can you describe those projects in more detail? time, the doctor told me about some of the research he was doing. he also told the company about some of the research that was being done. by that team in russia. his email correspondence from thefirm that referenced work he was doing for the russians. it was initially through conversations i had with the doctor and later through the investigative reporting that has ,een done for the past year more details have emerged as well. >> professor hersh, the use of social media to micro-target is no neutral -- no new practice. the use of provocative information to either divide the electorate or to mobilize portions of the electorate has a long history in our country's political campaigns. the use of social media to micro-target different than it has been done in the past? >> there is a lot we don't know. it often looks the same. just because the campaign spend

and he's -- we're captive to the narcissism of a man who tapped into legitimate concerns and anxietieshe country about the future of the working and middle class. those cares and concerns are totally legitimate. the way he's going about it is the way a lot of people went about it in the 1920s for instance when we raised tariffs, built walls and boy, that decade rial worked out well, didn't it? what did the 1930s give us? i was thinking it's not analogous particularly, i was thinking of president reagan, 1981, inauguration day, the hostages are released five minutes after he was inaugurated and there was pressure to kill the hostage deal that president carter had made. >> right. >> and reagan said, no. thinking about june 1993, the first time bush xli went back to the white house after clinton beat him was to appear with ford, carter, clinton and endorse nafta. and there was a bipartisan view that our broad commitment as a country should not change with every election. this is not surprising. he said he was going to do all this. but i think we've seen reporting this week that suddenly h