there are so many worthy people we had my prepared introductions like daniel patrick moynihan. william sloane coffin, the correspondence between bill buckley and william sloane coffin, claire booth lutes, hubert humphrey. >> i must interject, if enough of you go out and buy this book, you increase the chances of there being a sequel. all the obituaries and eulogies, not have room to include. >> torch flickering but not quite dead. >> please join me in thanking james rosen and christopher buckley. [applause] >> i am lindsay craig, "national review" institute, so grateful to all of you for your support. so we can being programming like this and thank you for writing this book, christopher, we love having you come to participate in them. and another great moderating job, have a great weekend. >> on booktv's in depth coasting at discussion of the 1941 attack on pearl harbor on the eve of the 75th anniversary. on the program the author of countdown to pearl harbor, and the author of japan 1941, countdown to infamy and craig nelson with his book pearl harbor, from infamy to greatness

there are so many people we had to excise and whom i prepared the introductions like daniel patrick moynihan. clare booth luce and hubert humphrey. you increase the chances of there being a sequel of all of the obituaries and eulogies that wouldn't have room to include. [laughter] >> please join me in thanking james rosen. [applause] thank you all very much president of the national review institute we are so grateful to all of you for your support thank you all and have a great weekend. [applause] >> [inaudible conversations] >> all four of the major branches of the federal power are up for grabs. the house, the senate, the judiciary, the presidency are all up for grabs. come january, you could have a president donald trump, and i think that he carries the senate and if he carries the senate, he also carries the supreme court which is now poised between the republican appointees and democratic appointees and if he wins the presidency and the senate, he fills the vacancy filled by the demise and wins the judiciary and actually it's almost impossible from the political science perspective if

>> and my facts, patrick moynihan said you can have different opinion, but aren't entitled to your own facts. we are at a place where people behave -- >> i would argue they can get the same fact and have a totally different attitude. you can say hillary clinton's an ambitious woman. decided she had a shot at the presidency in the late '90s. to a republican, critic, that's evidence of evil. to a democratic, that's a courageous woman as a path finder, someone who's had the guts to run for president of the united states and really go all the way and mean it. >> but that's the way it's always been. that's what politics are. oh, here are the facts. my spin is this. your spin is this. this is different where donald trump can can lie and lie and lie and the people who support him accept perhaps for hugh, don't care. >> good news. on friday night, i was at the -- >> voice for broadcasting. >> thank you. i heard chairman of the joint chief of staff joe dunford give a speech about the american military, how it's not proeken, how it's the greatest in the world and then honored five core men rescu

i talked about this the other night, that people like patrick moynihan was a visionary back when bobbynedy was killed. he wrote a letter to ted kennedy he never actually mailed. he said we're losing the people that were all these democrats, the working class irish, italian, polish, whatever. they were working class for roosevelt going back to fdr and certainly back to jack kennedy. and we're losing them, and they should be our people. they should be our people. and then i watched this thing on "saturday night live" where the working guy and trump guy played by tom hanks was given all the same answers on a joke show called blank jeopardy as the african americans were given. why can't the democrats hold together a coalition of black, white and brown on economic issues for working people? why have they lost the ability to hold them all together? what happens? >> well, first of all, i think the mistake is to say it's democrats. i think it's democrats and republicans. i think this is a group that feels like the american dream of you follow the rules, work hard, you can get ahead has been st

senator daniel patrick moynihan, the late senator, used to say, you are entitled to your own opinionst you're not entitled to your own facts. they have their own set of facts. we have a situation where we do not just argue about the analysis of the situation or the prescription for solving the problem. we disagree on the core facts. how do you have a civil society? it is one we face in our industry. there is no greater challenge than what many people are calling a virtual reality. people can live in it that is divorced from actual reality. [applause] >> i completely agree it is the most pressing problem. there are studies that show that does not have to do with the right effects. the opposite of the version of the truth that you believe. we have seen this particularly in reporting about science and vaccines on the web. there are a whole tonic conspiracy theories. i was reading a crazy posting my one friend posted about zika and genetically modified mosquitoes. they crop up all over the place. the temptation of the media is to go into science bully mode. another stupid person said a st

senator daniel patrick moynihan, the late senator, used to say, you are entitled to your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts. when you have a situation in our country where we don't just argue about the analysis of the situation with a prescription for solving the problem, we disagree on the core facts. we cannot agree on what happened asterday, how do you have civil society or democracy in that kind of the environment. in my view, there is no greater challenge than the submergence of what many people are calling virtual reality that people can live in that are divorced from actual reality. reallything that is also you wouldis that imagine as journalists that you could shed light on that problem by for the reporting of the truth but there are studies that show that it doesn't have to do with the right of fact. i completely agree it is the most pressing problem. there are studies that show that does not have to do with the right effects. the opposite of the version of the truth that you believe. we have seen this particularly in reporting. a crazy posting my friend

had to excise and for whom i prepared preparatory enter ductions like -- introductions like patrick daniel moynihan >> as a matter of fact, i had wondered why that wasn't in there. >> william sloan coffin. the correspondence between the two was hilarious. clare boothe luce. >> again, why -- >> hubert humphrey. >> well, now here i must interject and say if enough of you go out and buy this book -- [laughter] you increase the chances of there being a sequel. >> yes. >> all the obituaries and eulogies -- >> that will be called -- >> -- james did not have room to include. >> a torch flickering but not quite dead. [laughter] >> please join me in thank james rosen and chris buckley. [applause] >> thank you all very much for coming. i'm lindsay craig, president of national review institute, as jack said, we're so grateful to all of you for your support so that we can bring programming like this. thank you to james for writing this book, we really appreciate it, christopher, of course, we love having you come to our events and participate in them. obviously, you're a dear friend, thank you. and another gre

senator daniel patrick moynihan, the late senator, used to say, no people believe they are entitled to their own facts and they have their own set of facts. have a situation where we do not just argue about the analysis of the situation or the prescription for solving the problem. we disagree on the core facts. civil society? a we face in our industry. there is no greater challenge are what many people calling a virtual reality. [applause] i completely agree it is the most pressing problem. there are studies that show that does not have to do with the right effects. the opposite of the version of the truth that you believe. we have seen this particularly reporting. a crazy posting my friend posted about zika and genetically modified mosquitoes. the temptation of the media is to go into science bully mode. trafficget a lot of going, rock, rock, big science ra, big science. the question of what the right journalistic posture is, if it is not just reporting the truth -- - walter: who has a great last question? big, broad, and wonderful. >> how can you ensure you are not politically biased

that i had privilege of working with, senator pete williams of new jersey and senator daniel patrick moynihan of new york and somewhere in our calendars we'll figure out where we first met but two great friends of all of us for many, many years who are going to give us the background and some insight into the presidential debates this year, where the commission started and hopefully where the commission is going. i know for many of you this commission has been a model for debates with organized by political parties, civil society in some cases by the election management commissions. so with that, let me turn it over to frank and then mike. at the end we will take questions. this is all live, and so, and all on the record. so, frank, take it away. >> thank you very much, bill, and good morning, everyone. i want to welcome you to the united states on behalf of the commission on presidential debates. mike and i are going to try to be as brief as possible, give you a little background what we're looking at in the future in this changing world we live in because of these things. this is an iphone.

senator daniel patrick moynihan, the late senator, used to say, you are entitled to your own opinionst you're not entitled to your own facts. now people believe they are entitled to their own facts and they have their own set of facts. when you have a situation where we do not just argue about the analysis of the situation or the prescription for solving the problem. we disagree on the core facts. we can't even agree on what happened yesterday. how do you have a civil society? how do you have a democracy in that kind of environment? it is one we face in our industry. there is no greater challenge than what many people are calling a virtual reality. people can live in it that is divorced from actual reality. [applause] >> i completely agree it is the most pressing problem. there are studies that show that does not have to do with the right effects. the opposite of the version of the truth that you believe. that just doubles your unbelief. we have seen this particularly in reporting. we have seen that around science and vaccines on the web. i was just reading another one that a crazy po