john was responsible for ollie north. chris argatis, who i don't think has prosecuted anyone but defends everyone. and other greats like patrick and nancy. our programs have historically been more a mix of social and educational gatherings. our history dates back to 1962. we had a judge's luncheon in 1962 and our list of ctla presidents goes back that far. i wish i had the time to list them all but i don't. we'll get that list on our ctla page soon. san francisco is lucky to have ctla to kick around. our shall i say, to have our ctla members to kick around. but seriously, i'm humbled by the ctla members who every day, every day defend their clients using the constitutions of the united states and california in support of great principles. every day our members show courage in bay area courts, and we do ok in the big battles as well. who will ever forget the extraordinary accomplishments of john in defending our college, patrick, from a crazy federal prosecutor in nevada? that level of talent and that level of courage is u

before you go, if you are in atlanta on sunday, december 18th, michael w smith, me, ollie north and herma will be there, tickets at hannity.com. see you. >> tonight there's an extraordinary development. missing former fbi agent robert is alive. new video shows him for the first time since he mysteriously vanished in iran. now his family is trying a new tactic, making an urgent plea to his kidnappers >> we not part of a government, we are not experts on the region. no one can help us but you. please help us. we tried to contact you, but you never responded. i am sending this message because we need to know what you want our family to do so that my father can come home safely. we will do everything that's in our power to bring him home. i don't know how else to communicate with you. but my father knows how to contact us. we don't know what else to do. please tell us what you want and please help us bring my father home. >> bob, i will continue to do everything i can to bring you home alive. all i want is for our family to be whole again. we love you. we miss you every day. >> robert levinso

so i, actually, it was ollie north, yeah, you really need to write this. and we wrote it, and it was as simple as somebody saying yes. and when b and h publishing was, like, we'd love to put it out, you went, really? and it was that simple. and now all of a sudden you have this book, we're in walmart. you know, now, something's happening. so it's been a heck of a ride. >> what is this about music and the guitar? >> i work in nashville. e do country music, so we have a whole audience on that side of the world. it's kind of a neat thing. you have all these fans that are coming in for music, and now you got new people that you're meeting at events like this for the book, and they're all coming to keni thomas, and they're all starting to figure out what the message is what, what is set an example. you can do amazing things. >> who do you play with in country music? anybody -- >> name it. the only people i have not opened up for yet is faith hill and tim mcgraw, so if they're watching, you guys need to give me a slot. as the opening act, you get to see everybod

-- there were the two most highly decorated marine platoon leaders in vietnam were jim webb and ollie north. and he -- jim wrote a novel that is still thought of as one of the great war novels. very different cup of tea, if that's quite the right expression from catch-22, a book called fields of fire. and jim wrote this appreciation in the "wall street journal" and it's quoted at some length in the introduction. and he recounts being in really, you know, the ninth circle of hell, he and his platoon have been taking terrible casualties. he said we were there -- are in the sides. we're crawling hook room from bad water we had been drinking and in the midst of, you know, this blood and misery and death, one, he hears this -- someone shouting in a his foxhole and saying, you got to read this. you got to read this. and it's a tattered copy of catch-22. and webb had written the book growing up as an air force brat on an air force base in nebraska. and he said he devoured it. his men were passing it around. he said it didn't matter to me at all that i was reading a book -- and this is -- these are

a, they were the two most highly decorated marine platoon leaders in vietnam were jim webb and ollie north. and he, jim, wrote a novel that is still thought of as one of the great war novels, very different cup of tea if that's quite the right expression from "catch-32," a book, called "fields of fire." and jim wrote this appreciation in "wall street journal", and it's quoted at some length in the introduction, and he recounts being in, really, the ninth circle of hell, he and his platoon had been taking terrible casualties, he said we were, our inside were crawling with hook worm from bad water we had been drinking. and in the midst of this, you know, blood and misery and death, one -- he hears this someone shouting in his foxhole and saying, you've got to read this. you've got to read this. and a tattered copy of "catch-23." -- "catch-22." and webb had read the book growing up as an air force brat in nebraska, but he said he devoured it. his men were passing it around. and he said, it didn't matter the me at all that that i was reading a book that, and this is, these are his words, that