president, with every new director of the nsa really address the threat that in several country nonoaud's before you write in your book the full extent of the disclosures are no but you as intelligent a sources the number of files at one point, 7 million. what is your opinion of this? >> guest: it certainly is enormous and demands information. there has to be some scrutiny and exercise him part of the media in terms of what information is disclosed to make sure it does not endanger the lives of people. it really does perform a vital public service and i know that it remains a very controversial, there's why live criticism was distorted. there is also a very strong feeling that he is an american hero. he is viewed as such from around the world. it does really cause people to question who controls documents, who who owns documents, what is the power of documents, what are these things really about. >> c-span: let me ask you for another one of your most important documents that you have in here. >> guest: well i think there certainly many types of documents. i'm interested and i have given e

as far as what remains, i understand there are about 12 structures that are considered nonoaud, of course you have named their primary once, city, city hall, the old capital, the governor's mansion and a few other buildings here and there. many of the other ones around the turn-of-the-century, right before your for because they're updating houses it is simply that. i think jackson earned the name jimmy ville. >> thank you. >> i have a two-part question. can you explain the mechanics of how the letters worked? did they mail letters back to the newspaper? you mention that and also did you find any letters from african-american newspapers or african-american clergy are soldiers or any of the other people you mentioned? >> the letters for the most part were actually sent to the editor of the paper because he was saying, the soldier was saying i cannot write my mother, my daddy, my sweetheart, my friends. they might write their mama but then he would write dear editor, would you see that my friends in the county so if you publish this i won't have to write everybody because i don't have time t

as far as what remains, i understand there are about 12 structures that are considered nonoaud, of course you have named their primary once, city, city hall, the old capital, the governor's mansion and a few other buildings here and there. many of the other ones around the turn-of-the-century, right before your for because they're updating houses it is simply that. i think jackson earned the name jimmy ville. >> thank you. >> i have a two-part question. can you explain the mechanics of how the letters worked? did they mail letters back to the newspaper? you mention that and also did you find any letters from african-american newspapers or african-american clergy are soldiers or any of the other people you mentioned? >> the letters for the most part were actually sent to the editor of the paper because he was saying, the soldier was saying i cannot write my mother, my daddy, my sweetheart, my friends. they might write their mama but then he would write dear editor, would you see that my friends in the county so if you publish this i won't have to write everybody because i don't have time t

this is the time when the population growth movement came in, when nonoaud's all of these were concerns. so they basically had a scenario where at this time we would run out of resources. we would so china was not the only one by far. but china took most drastic steps. implementing a sterilization program in uganda the. and for that both india and china received gold medals from the un. >> host: so what is the rest of world think of. it sounds like the rest of the world did not immediately recognize the negative consequences. >> guest: i think a lot of the world still doesn't recognize the negative consequences. for for long time, for struthers amid support for the idea because there's a sense that you're planning it. so china was going to take the steps, good for them. that means i can run my dryer, washer and dryer and consumer with relative ease of my. and my. and also for a long time china maintained that their population policy was being run without coercion. that's nonsense of people really thought about it for two seconds. how could you implement something without some coercion b