>> the overwhelming majority of physical and emotional cost of war is this subject of ron capps new memoirli not lrt fooy not all right five wars in 10 years which takes readers on a personal reality of war crimes and the atrocities. he was a senior military officer and foreign service officer for the u.s. department of state and combat veteran of afghanistan having served in the army and army reserves for 25 years now the founder of the director of the veterans writing project. ron capps i'm pleased to have you on this program. >> thanks for having me. >> i want to start by reading something that i think will contextlize our conversation. these are your words. just as a glove protects a hand on hot iron writing allows me to hang onto the memory long enough to shape it. it allows me to distance myself from it. in a very real way i wrote my way into it. this book is my attempt to write my way out of it, to write my way home. >> that's a powerful phrase, to write my way home. can that be done? >> i'm trying. doing my best. i was diagnosed about 12 years ago with post traumatic stress disorde

her new memoir is called "hard choices." please welcome back to the program secretary hillary clinton. secretary. nice see you. i'm very excited. [cheering and applause] how are you? >> i'm great. i am absolutely great. how are you doing? >> jon: i'm doing very well. >> i can see that. >> jon: here is the book that you have written. this is called "hard choices." it's clearly... >> a lot of hard choices. >> jon: not for your editor. look at that baby. >> the real story is that it was even longer. >> jon: was it really? >> oh, yes. there was just so much that happened in those four years. >> jon: sure. >> i was trying explain it, pull the curtain back, so people could get an idea what we were doing in the world, and i wrote much more than that, if you can believe it. so this was like take the whip out and take the scalpel and cut it down. >> it's an incredibly i think complex and well reasoned and eyeing witness view to the history of those four years. i think i speak for everybody when i say, no one cares. they just want to

>> the overwhelming majority of physical and emotional cost of war is the subject of ron capps new memoir "seriously not all right: five wars in ten years." takes into the reality of the war crimes and the atrocity. aer is military intelligence officer and a foreign service officer for the u.s. department of state and the combat veteran of afghanistan. served for 25 years. now the found ore it have veteran riding project. my please to have you on the program. >> thank you. >> i want to start reading something you write in the text. because i think it will conte contextualize our conversation. as the glove protected a hot hand, riding along allows me to hold onto the memory just enough to shape it. allows me to distance myself from it. to write my out of it, to write my way home. can that be done? >> i'm trying. i'm doing my best. >> yeah. >> i was diagnosed about 12 years ago with posttraumatic stress disorder. even after i was diagnosed i didn't do a good job taking care of myself. i continued to e deploy to different war zones until i wound up in the desert alone one day and ready to ta

. >> clinton held online forums to promote her new memoir. about 500 people tuned in at the start of the live stream on youtube for the twitter session. by the end 60 were left. >>> only on kpix5 a $1 billion state of the art healthcare facility that you paid for, so how come it hasn't admitted any patients for months? >> before you eat that peach, the big fruit recall you need to hear about tonight. >> and move over bay lights, the story behind this trippy new light show on the waterfront tonight. >> there is a little light show on kpix5 hi-def doppler radar. this is our dryest month, but that is some rain to the north our "name your price" tool helps -- oh, jamie, you got a little something on the back of your shoe there. a price tag! danger! price tag alert! oh. hey, guys. price tag alert! is this normal? well, progressive is a price tag free zone. we let you tell us what you want to pay, and we help you find options to fit your budget. where are they taking him? i don't know. this seems excessive! decontamination in progress. i don't want

stanley prusiner is the director for institute of neurodegenertive diseases and has written a new memoir, the discovery of preon, the principal of disease which reveals his dramatic journey from pariah to profit. he challenge everything that the scientific community thought they knew about path owe generals leading the way for that matter which eventually might become a breakthrough for treatments like alzheimer's, parkinson's and other forms of dement dementia. we owe you a thank you for your persistence when they told you were wrong. >> thank you. >> i want to get to your work about preons and what the hope is for fighting cures for these illnesses and diseases in a moment. but your book fascinating. it's really an interesting sort of inside account of the fact that scientific breakthrough can be both collaborative but also pretty cutthroat. i'm not sure that the uninformed, the uninitiate like me knew how cutthroat this can be. >> well, i think cutthroat may not be the perfect word to describe this. i think that people in science work very hard. and they have a problem. their problem

. >> clinton held online forums to promote her new memoir. about 500 people tuned in at the start of the live stream on youtube for the twitter session. by the end 60 were left. >>> only on kpix5 a $1 billion state of the art healthcare facility that you paid for, so how come it hasn't admitted any patients for months? >> before you eat that peach, the big fruit recall you need to hear about tonight. >> and move over bay lights, the story behind this trippy new light show on the waterfront tonight. >> there is a little light show on kpix5 hi-def doppler radar. this is our dryest month, but that is some rain to the north of san francisco and there is more rain coming. find out when next. expensive.. prison medical complex. tonight, only on 5: >>> we've learned the state can finally start admitting new prisoners at the big, new and very expensive prison medical complex. tonight only on 5 michelle griego takes us inside that facility to show us what californians are and are not getting for all that money. >> reporter: the crown jewel of californ

clinton is in silicon valley tonight wrapping up a question after a session on ; to wit,ter about her new memoir. this is video of her during her appearances at san jose state last april. earlier today, she held an online forum about her book in menlo park. >>> another unusually sticky, muggy day in the bay area. right now, we are seeing activity on the satellite. here is our chief meteorologist paul deanno. >> reporter: kind of strange to have this much activity on the radar. right now kpix 5 high def doppler, if zoomed out enough is showing showers heading up toward eureka, redding and shasta lake. rare for july. still tapping into the tropics. remember, it felt humid outside. it was extra cloudy. had a few sprinklers. happened again this morning. will happen again overnight. the unstable air is still around. that unstable air will be around for another 24 hours giving us another rain chance. coming up tonight, nothing widespread. something to talk about. we will talk about how hot we will get in the 7 day forecast in about 10 minutes. >> thank you. >> you guys don't know humidity. i ram from

heart beats ] >> jimmy: tonight on the program, a very funny man with an interesting and funny new memoird "the todd glass situation." the one and only todd glass is here. [ cheers and applause ] todd is dyslexic, he had a heart attack on stage while doing stand-up. and he came out of the closet at age 48. i'd known him for ten years. i had no idea he was gay. i had dinner at his home. we made love. i still had no idea. [ laughter ] so todd has an interesting story. it's in that book. and then, this is their ep called "upside out." the always exceptionally entertaining ok go from the at&t outdoor stage. [ cheers and applause ] tomorrow night, o'oh, what a show we have tomorrow night. chef gordon ramsay will be here. bobcat goldthwait will be with us. and we'll have music from common. and on thursday, from "the leftovers" on hbo, justin theroux, angie harmon, and music from 5 seconds of summer. so join us for those programs too. our first guest tonight is a veteran actor of stage and screen and i will admit, a man whose poster is still on my bedroom wall. his new movie is called "my man is

plus, we "spotlight" the new memoir, "a sliver of life: three americans imprisoned in iran."t respected dps in hollywood. well now, he's adding to his impressive resume by making his directorial debut with the highly anticipated sci-fi thriller, "tns

bureau chief, coauthor of a piece that reads, while clinton has touched on policy issues in her new memoir and steady schedule of speeches andviews she has yet to draw a full portrait where she wants to lead the country. jonathan allen, coauthor of the piece. jonathan, she hasn't said she isn't running is she expected to lay out vision for the future if she isn't even running? she has time to do that. she essentially has been running for president since 2006. we heard why she has experience, resume', credentials to be president of the united states. one of the big failures of our 2008 campaign i think her inability to articulate a clear vision where she wanted to take america and connect her policies to that vision and those policies to people's daily lives. i think that is something that is going to be a challenge for her going into 2016 should she in fact pull the trigger and run. i expect that we're going to hear a little bit more about that vision for the future but something she struggled with in the past. >> you say in her piece, especially young people are yearning for a people lead

. >> clinton promoted the new memoir about 500 people tuned in at the start of the live stream on youtube for the twitter session. by the end, 60 were left. >>> happening today president barack obama returns to the bay area for more fundraising. the president will fly in tonight from seattle and tomorrow he'll be in los altos hills for a big luncheon. tickets by the way start at $10,000 for that. after that he will fly south to los angeles. president's last bay area fundraisers were about two and a half months ago. >>> also happening today, san francisco's supervisors decide whether to put a soda tax on the november ballot. the proposal would tax most soft drinks at two cents per ounce. money would go for sports and recreation programs. and nutrition education. the board's budget committee voted unanimously for the plan just last week. >>> medical marijuana advocates will have to seek another plan in their effort to overturn new regulations in san jose. they were hoping to put a couple measures on the november ballot with looser restrictions. but a lot of the signatures they gathered turn

that figure includes the advance from her new memoir along with speaking fees which are said to command200,000 per appearance. i'm curious about these numbers. but all the fees go to the clinton foundation? some of them? >> they're not totally transparent, but a lot of them do. but some critics say they control the foundation. she's lost control of her public image. it's the worst thing that can happen to somebody thinking of running for president. and it's at a time when she should be in command. she had a book tour. she can control the message. her operation is playing defense on a lot of stories. and again, she can recover from it, but right now she's lost control of how people are thinking about her, how the media is covering her. >> can i ask mark a monday morning quarterback question? >> yeah, i have one, too. >> would it have been better in hindsight if hillary had not written this book? because look where she was when she was out of the fray. no one was talking about her in terms of politics. just in terms of how she had done as secretary of state. >> she'd have less money. >> t

she traveled the country promoting her new memoir "heart choices." 14% rated excellent, 28% thought she a good job, 28% a fair performance, 32% said she did a poor job leading the state department. >> hecklers for chris christie, protestors saying they were angry over a recent veto over new jersey bill that would ban magazines containing more than 10 rounds. >> up to 1,000 national guard troops will soon head to texas' border with mexico. governor rick perry is ordering the move, saying the border patrol has been overwhelmed dealing with undocumented children and needs help stopping real criminals. >> our citizens are under assault and little children from central america are detained in squall lower. that is why today i am using my check authority as the accident governor and activating the national guard. >> drug busts along the mexican border have dropped significantly in the past year. some adjustment government officials want to know the story behind the fall off. >> it is a startling correlation as the number of undocumented children hitting would border has soared, the number of

with "american pie" movie series and skoe starring in "orange is the new black" series in a women's prison based on a real life memoird "orange is the new black" was named best television series, and considered a front-runner for upcoming emmy nomination announced as you know next week. show now in its second season. available for binge viewing on netflix. start with a scene from "orange is the new black." >> i have to get out of here. i want to come home. >> quite the statement. >> are you sure about that? >> yeah. i'm sure. >> i'm not asking you. i'm asking future piper. free piper. can you guarantee that you still will? >> future piper hopes so. present larry can't live on hope. with peas and peanut butter pretzels, yes, but not with hope. >> good these days in biggs house hole. the husband on t-- on a hit tv series. and i like you just the way i am. >> stories about me and some other people. >> the best-seller list. you on a hit series. life is good. >> yeah, we have a new baby. >> a new baby. forgot the baby. >> he has got a new show coming out. he is on the best-seller list. yeah. yeah. i mean. >> what have you

. >> the new guardian and other publications her memoir losing tim which is about her son will come out april 2014. please welcome our guests. [applause] mr. finkel during the search trying to cope with life back home toe us the story of sgt schuman. >> thank you for coming today. at an issue bin they had been the quick thing about the number doing some reporters on this just to be clear it is not 22 iraqi and afghanistan veterans it is all veterans when you examine that liggett the 22 on a particular day suicides are happening but most have gone on from service to do many other things a great number are over 60 is just worth pointing out it is direct line from the war experience to a suicide although i say it is not but not necessarily is the other part is when we look at the 2011 numbers which are the most recent with the number of young people but adam schuman i am happy to say is not one of them that might have been while i was reporting my first book for a good soldiers when i was asking around one day who was a great soldier someone said this guy adam schuman. time went by and i g

memoir. >>> one california city wants new cell phones to come with a cancer warning label.ou think about that? that's our "newsnation" gut check. >>> we are following developing news in virginia moments now from now president obama will address the crowd at the highway research center in virginia. his speech will largely be about the economy but the president is expected to press the need for infrastructure spending. the president's approval number sitting in the low 40s his speech lands at an important battleground state for the upcoming midterm elections. >>> and massachusetts senator elizabeth warren is getting rock star reception as she hits the road on behalf of fellow democrats across the country. since march she lobbied for senator. she raised over $200,000 who is looking unseat senator mcconnell. >> i'm here because i believe in democracy. i believe in what we can do together. i believe in natalie tennant, she's going to be your next senator. [ cheers and applause ] >>. >> so the event took place in west virginia's eastern pan handle one of the most progressive area

textbooks and her children's book said giant gm said which translated into 20. >> the new guardian and other publications her memoirlosing tim which is about her son will come out april 2014. please welcome our guests. [applause] mr. finkel during the search trying to cope with life back home toe us the story of sgt schuman. >> thank you for coming today. at an issue bin they had been the quick thing about the number doing some reporters on this just to be clear it is not 22 iraqi and afghanistan veterans it is all veterans when you examine that liggett the 22 on a particular day suicides are happening but most have gone on from service to do many other things a great number are over 60 is just worth pointing out it is direct line from the war experience to a suicide although i say it is not but not necessarily is the other part is when we look at the 2011 numbers which are the most recent with the number of young people but adam schuman i am happy to say is not one of them that might have been while i was reporting my first book for a good soldiers when i was asking around one day who was a great soldier someone s

matter of fact, edith wharton, the famous writer, who grew up in 1870's new york, as an old woman in the 1930's she wrote a memoir, "a backwards glance," and she talked about growing up in this new york, and she hated it. she hated it, as most people did. she hated the brownstones as most people did by the early 20th century. on top of the straitjacket of brownstone houses, there were no beautiful piazzas or fountains. in beautiful cities, they always have piazzas. none of that in new york. it may have been an exciting city but it must have been an ugly one. that is what she said. was,ow you how crowded it there is manhattan. on the other side is the east river. on the other side, the hudson river. in order to have some fun, in order to play, in order to play a ballgame if you wanted to, you had to take a boat, and where did you go? hoboken. you went to the elysian fields. the stevens family basically owned hoboken, and that basically became the playground of new york. some people think the first baseball game was played there. i won't get into that argument. the point is the elysian fields were a way of escaping

. >>> hillary clinton's memoir is no longer on the top of "new york times" and the book booting her out is anything by klein and clinton versuses obamas and sold 20,000 copies last week besting hillary clinton's book. it details the supposed rivalry between the clintons and the obamas including accusations that a physical altercation between hillary clinton and president obama. reviews say it is thinly sourced and implausible. >> a campaign is urging facebook users to disconnect and give up facebook for 99 days and replace it with this logo to let fellow users know you are taking part if the pledge. a dutch nonprofit is behind the campaign in response to facebook's mood experience where they manipulateed news of hundreds of thousands of users to democrat if they could change their emotions. it is not antifacebook protest but there are emotional benefits to moderation including facebook use. i interviewed zuckerberg's sister a few weeks back and she said something similar we should all take a break from social networking just to get our heads on straight. >> makes good sense. and too muc

search for our own identity, and this is a powerful text, a wonderful memoir about his own personal search, alex tizon is the author of the newk "big little man in search of my asian self." i've just scratched the surface tonight on what is in this text, but i think you'll find it a fascinating read. alex, good to have you on the program. congratulations, pmy friend. >> thank you very much, tavis. >>> coming, a conversation with sister simone campbell about her new text, "a nun on the bus." stay with us. >>> sister simone campbell joined the sisters of social service, the roman catholic religious community in the mid-'60s and has been a tireless advocate for social justice ever since. as an attorney and author, sister simone has made it her mission to work on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised. her latest text is called "a nun on the bus" which chronicles efforts by herself and her fellow sisters to speak truth to power. sister simone, i am honored to have you on this program. >> it's great to be with you. >> let me start, because i learned something -- and maybe i'm showing my own ignorance here -- i grew up in the pente

her poems, stories and essays appear in atlantic monthly, mademoiselle, new statesman, our den, and other publications. her memoir "losing tim," which is about her son, will come out in april 2014. please welcome our guests applau.[applause] >> in your first book you follow the to 16 army battalion during the surge and in turn can you follow a handful of them as they try to cope with life back on. one of the central characters is sergeant adam schuman. would you tell us the story of sergeant schuman? >> sure. first of all, thanks for coming today. adam schuman might have been one of the 22 a day that chris was referring to. actually the quick thing about that number. the "l.a. times" advanced reporting on this, team a run of the "washington post" has done some reporting on this. just to be clear, it's not 20 to iraq and afghanistan veterans today. it's all veterans. when you examine that 20 to come if you look at two on a particular day, i mean, the suicides are happening but most of these folks have gone on from there service and done many other things. the great number are folks who are over 60. so there've bee

former senator from the state of new york, the former secretary of state of the united states, hillary clinton. hard choices is mrs. clinton's recently published memoirr time as america's 67th secretary of state. welcome. >> thank you, fareed. i'm delighted to be here. >> first, the stuff in the news. >> yes. >> there are a lot of people who feel that president obama is not being tough enough on vladimir putin, on russia. do you think he's handling the ukrainian crisis appropriately? >> well, fareed, i think that he is facing some of the same challenges that american presidents face when dealing with threats within europe. the united states obviously has a great interest in helping to maintain peace and security in europe, and we have a formal alliance, nato, to do so. but much of what we can do and what the president is calling for requires the full participation of our european friends and allies. and i would make three quick points. first, i think if there were any doubt, it should be gone by now that vladimir putin certainly indirectly, through his support of the insurgents in eastern ukraine and the supply of advanced weapons and, frankly, the p

joining the table now is piper kerman whose memoir "orange is the new black" who inspired the seriesr own series brought to light the problem of this country's mass incarceration. we thought we would pause for a moment and ask how you see personal stories and courage to tell particularly the tough stories, ones people don't want to hear as potentially transformative for politics. >> it's so important. because for so many people, the thing that frames an issue for them is a story. it's not data. it's not a single data point or a host of data points. it's a narrative. most likely it's a narrative about a single person or small group of people. there's a famous line that a million deaths is no big deal but one death is a tragedy. that's how we understand things as human beings. so, i think it's exceptionally important. especially if it's something that is a little distant from many people in power. and that is particularly true when you're talking about something like mass incarceration. >> it feels to me also that the story teller matters. that part of what you've been able to do is us

new york stock exchange. thanks a lot, jill. >>> george alberta walker bush is one of the few presidents never to write a memoir.ll leave it to his friend. the author is george w. busch, the nation's 43rd president. the book will cover the elder busch's whole life and include insights on how he affected his son's political career. and the younger president bush shared the spotlight at major league baseball game wednesday night. he emerged from the dugout at the ballpark in arlington, texas, to pay tribute to retiring new york yankees star derek jeter. it was jeter's final game in texas. president bush gave him a signed picture of the two. it was taken just before mr. bush threw out the first pitch of game three of the world series in new york just seven weeks after 9/11. the celebration didn't last long. jeter went 0 for 4 and the yankees fall to the rangers, 3-2. >>> when we return, it might taste good, but your heart won't thank you. we will show you what one health organization calls the worst meal in america. >>> and hatchet job. how this ax ended up in the windshield of a car. but do you know what's ine you

new york. the question for tracey syphax is what role did the memoir play in your healing process from when you finally came out of hell to where you are today? >> i talk about it in the book. i was abused as a young kid, 8 years old. my mom moved to texas and when we got to texas she got locked up and i was in a foster home and abused by a young lady that was there. something i never talked about. i talked about it with my wife. my mom didn't even know. when i wrote the book i talk about it and a lot of my family members found out about it's only then. so writing this book, i had a ghost writer that wrote the book so you are talking a lot of full conversations, tape-recorded conversations to atlanta. it was almost like on long caps being able to remove my whole life. i start to where i am today. i have a great opportunity to cleanse myself of a lot of things i held in. a lot of things other people did know about and did very well. it was good for me, good therapy for me to do the book. c-span: >> i will take your question too because the memoir has a kind of cathartic release and you find your

news. to his right is one of our panelists. kimberly is the author of the best-selling memoir "breathing the fire," and served as a military affairs correspondent for cbs news and the associated press and writes for "the daily beast." she is the winner of the peabody award and 2 edward armour oh -- edward r. murrow award. i'm happy to welcome her to dickinson college. she has been named as the chair in the strategic leadership. to her right is tom shanker, the associate editor of the washington bureau for "the new york times." a former pentagon correspondent for the times. he's been covering the pentagon since 2001. and he has formally served as a foreign editor and correspondent for the "chicago tribune." but i think more important for our discussion tom is the , co-author of "counterstrike, the untold story of our war against al qaeda." an excellent book that i recommend to all of our course participants. to my left is linda mason. she is a former senior vice president of cbs news. linda actually served 47 years with cbs news, ending her career in 2003 as a senior vice president for standards and specials. she was a pioneer in t

news. here's what he says. tell me about your experience. you wrote a memoirme in prison titled "then they came for me." you describe how a key piece of what they called evidence used against you was an interview from "the daily show." what was that. >> what they do when you arrive at a prison in iran is they throw charges at you. first they throw those charges and then they try to find the evidence to back it up. so my charge was that i was spying for the cia, the states and "newsweek." in absence of any evidence, they showed me an appearance on "the daily show" where jason jones, one of the reporters for "the daily show" was saying he was a spy, so they said you were talking to a spy. unfortunately, i can foresee a situation for jason, "the washington post" reporter who was arrested, to go through the same thing. >> you mean where they look for some sort of thing they can pretend is evidence and throw it at him? >> unfortunately, yes. and you have to understand that jason in prison, he's going to deal with very ignorant and very paranoid people. these are th

memoir that i recommend. it is about washington, cbs, and the glory days of television news. andy and roger, i want to welcome you both and thank you for being here today. you were both members of something called the culture club. could you tell me about what the culture club was and how you found yourselves members of it back in 1964? >> thank you for that kind introduction. we invented the culture club. it rose, phoenix-like, from the ashes. the problem was that there was a filibuster. and nothing was happening except a lot of speeches. that did not mean we created news or made it up, but we were like bees going to flowers. flowers were russell, senator russell, senator dirks, senator humphrey, mansfield, and others. we went around and ask questions or make comments and said, hey, the majority leader said x. what do you think? at the end of the day, roger had a good story for the news and i had nothing to write for the tribune. that was the nature of the culture club. there were five of us. roger and myself, peter, unfortunately, and ned kenworthy of the new york times. pe

klosterman, he is an author of pretty much everything, novels, memoirs, cultural criticism and he is is ethical advice columnist for "the new york times" magazine, the, his most recent collection of us says is called "i wear the black hat, grappling with villains" just published in paperback and i am pleased to have him at this table, klosterman, welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> i don't know if this was contrived or you walked into it but this is an age of villains in so many ways, the golden age of television, the walter whites, the tony sopranos, the guy on the wire, everybody who is a villain we love. why is -- at this level so desirable in american culture right now? >> i think part of it has to do with the way, various mediums have changed, i mean you can find like kind of the anti-hero idea in novels and like 18th century, you see it in film really in the seventies, you had kind of a stretch where jack nicholson had all of the good early films and godfather and some of the dennis hopper films embraced this idea, then the eighties and early nineties it sort of became the backbone of hard rock and hip-hop, if you we

new, no one's ever read them before. what are they about? why did you... >> guest: it's an autobiographical memoir about my own personal intellectual development, and i didn't want to pre-publish it. some of it is quite personal. some of it--well, let me put it this way. this is a book in which all the other essays have previously been published. this essay i wanted to be fresh it's in some ways the most important essay, from my point of view, that i ever wrote since it's about me, and i wanted that fresh in the book. c-span: you start off in the very beginning and you say that--get past the preface here to that--you say that you've been a neo-marxist, a neo-trotskyist, a neo-socialist, a neo-liberal and finally a neo-conservative. >> guest: that pretty much traces the trajectomy of-trajectory of my political beliefs. i--i've never been comfortable with any of those doctrines because i always saw problems inherent in those doctrines. i even see problems inherent in conservatism today. i think anyone who has studied the history of political thought would be bound to see problems with conservatism t

today's fault lines are not new and this family just like many iraqis fear recognition might be too late. >> an iraqi american and the author of between two worlds a memoir documenting her experience growing up in iraq under the regime of saddam hussein. thanks for joining us. as the united states continues to rebuff these maliki requests for air strikes there are growing indications that there may be a chance to if i recall the void. >> to understand that we understand why shias are acting the way they're acting. from a shia perspective they have been persecuted over decades under a sunni regime of saddam hussein. so the prejudice that is in iraq indeed of sunnies that believe the shias are iranians and believe the sunnies have prosecuted them. and they have conflict about iran. if iran intervene in any shape way or form in my opinion that exasperate the regional tension beyond iraq, it goes into syria, into le lebanon. i talked to friends over there and the tension is so bad there. it is something that is going to exasperate the situation. if i am iran i would want the shia population, more importantly the iraqi shia sides have all the symbolism of shi

memoir. after a few months working with the coalition on neighborhood councils, cattan was given a position in the newof defense. so you were recruited for this job. >> yes. >> by the cpa. >> yes. >> by ambassador bremer and his aids. >> the staffs, yeah. >> did you have any experience in military procurement? >> no. >> to make up for this obvious deficiency, cattan was sent off to the national defense university in washington d.c. for a few weeks of training and eventually placed in charge of buying $1.2 billion worth of equipment for the iraqi military. the allegations are that $1.2 billion left iraq-- >> yes. >> to buy military equipment. >> yes. >> and only about $400 million worth of equipment came back into the country. and that $800 million somehow disappeared. >> it isn't true. >> cattan told us that the charges are politically motivated, and that he can account for every single dinar. >> all equipment with this 1 billion, 200 million, it is nowaday in iraq. >> it was delivered to iraq. >> i have documentation. i give it to you in your hand. >> this is a big misunderstanding, i mean, we're tal

the new york installment just wrapped up its installment with a memorable moment from our last guest. she's also the author of a recent book entitled "leggy blonde -- a memoirjoins us now on taking stock. the housewives. why do something like that? >> i joined the housewives to raise awareness for amputees. i knew i would be a caricature, i knew i could really raise awareness and give hope to amputees who need help and guidance. >> did they seek you out or did you go to them? what they sought me out. they came to me and asked if i would mind the show and i said absolutely not, not joining those crazy women. >> that you did. >> i did and realize you can't really beat the system. when you are on one of those reality shows, you become one of those crazy women. >> i have to play that crazy thist of stop let's go to moment on real housewives of new york. >> [crosstalk] >> you say you have never lied to any of us at the table and find us really hurtful and find that laughable. thing that is -- ficial about me >> for those listening on radio, that was a clip from "real youewives of new york." take off your prosthetic leg and throw it. it's a very big moment. >> it

he's also the author of a wonderful memoir that i recommend very highly called "a place to be: washington, cbs, and the glory days of television news" which has a lot of stories about covering the senate and covering in particular the civil rights act of 1964. so andy and roger i want to welcome you both and thank you for being here today. you were both members of something called the cloture club and i wondered if you could tell me about what the cloture club was and how you found yourself members of it back in 1964? >> thank you for that kind introduction. we inconvenient it hvented the . it did not exist until it rose phoenix like from the ashes. but the problem was that it was a filibuster and nothing was happening except a lot of speeches. and we wanted to make news now that didn't mean we created news or made it up but we were like bees going to flowers, flowers were senator russell, senator dirksen, senator humphrey, majority leader mansfield and others and we went around and asked them questions and made comments and said, hey, majority leader said "x," what do you any and at the end of the day roger had a pretty good story

visit comes as a new report shows clinton has earned at least $12 million in 16 months since leaving the state department. according to bloomberg, most of her income comes from her latest memoird appearances at corporate retreats and speeches for which she takes home $200,000 a pop. today clinton will host a live talk at facebook. >>> now to an investigation on the fitness bands. wearable tech gadgets are all the rage tracking calories from steps to even sleep. how accurate are they? abc news put three of the most popular bands to the test. the fit bit flex sells for 100 bucks and two others. here's what they found. >> we found these devices don't give you laboratory precision consistently but they are a great tool to keep check with your daily activity. you just need to keep in mind their readings may not be 100% accurate all the time. >> you can get the full breakdown on the test coming up on "good morning america" at 7:00. >>> right now 6:47. trading is under way on wall street. the early numbers are looking not very good if you want the dow to be on a bull run, it is not. it's down 67 points right now dropping to 17,032. >>> later today, chipotle will report earnings and