it's wonderful, thank you, noam, very much. [applause] >> i would just like to talk a little bit briefing and that alternate over to know about what i have been trying to do for about the last 30 years. and that is tell people about what i consider to be the main a tragic company historical tragedy in the world, but this is a great tragedy. outages began by saying that 3 million vietnamese people are suffering from the effects of chemical warfare. that is, the default action campaign that united states government waged in vietnam for at least 10 years. 3 million adults have 500,000 children. so one of things i'd like to do today is really dedicate this whole thing, the whole meeting today to the children, to the vietnamese children, to the children of u.s. vets, korean vets, australian vets, all of these people who have fathered by women have given birth to seriously deformed children, legless children, blind children, seriously retarded children, all the same result. as a result of having been exposed to something called tcd d

next during the siege and from new york city he discusses his book with author and link west noam chomsky. this is about 40 minutes. welcome to the new store that opened in april. her staff the great job making room for us all. >> i am the loose cannon, one of the people who set up this conspiracy to get us all together to think about agent orange and to do something about it. there are too great books published by seven story press. the first book originally came out in 1989. it was by fred wilcox of course and was about the impact agent orange had on american veterans. the second book was just knew, scorched earth, is about the vietnamese and the impact on vietnam. so the 07 stories press who does so many books nobody else what to and housing works and a few loose cannons all our thinks this is an important event to make a breakthrough on the horrible tragedy of many decades agent orange what still persist. if you have ideas about doing something, please do. you would have a q&a, please wait until you get a microphone in hand. we all want to hear your questions. we all want to hear your

it was a debate he had probably -- i want say late '60s, early '70s with noam chomsky who's a great linguist but also a very, very left wing political philosopher, writer. and they made no conception -- no concessions to the audience. so they were debating each other on a very high level using words that most of us don't know, arguing over concepts most of us don't know what they are. and you watch this and there's no debate on tv that it's at that high of level and you got the sense maybe five people know what they're talking about. but it's still gripping to see them volleying back and forth. and so, you know, he had this amazing skill. and it's a lesson that if you -- if you try to pander down to an audience, you just won't make a big difference. but if you are up here and the audience can get there. people are smart. and the audience can be there with you. and buckley was up there and the audience stayed with him because they respected him and he brought out the best in people. >> host: do you have a loyal reader, someone who checks in with you from time to time? >> guest: i have -- i ca