you have not gone into the detail that paul berman exhaustively goes into in this book.and it makes me ask, is there a limit to what you are willing to say or even to think? is there red line, which is your lineage, your heritage? i'm not attributing these to you and i'm not asking you to repudiate your grandfather. i'm asking you why you haven't condemned him for his association with the grand mufti and they are just ancient history because one of your grandfather's followers, who says all her dowry who preaches rencontre egyptian born, just last year said hitler was sent by allah as a punishment for the correction of the jews. i don't know if you condemned at the time. you've spoken quite highly of sheikh kothari, so my first question is to you condemned these things? or is there a limit to the breadth of your ethical vision? let me ask the second question and then we'll get to that. the second question is philosophical. word do whites come from? that's my basic question. are they inherent in being human order they come from revealed religion? do they come from the tex

it does not have any teeth in it, but as paul berman said to me, the most important thing is that now you can move -- once it is there, you can improve it. now it is in a position where it can be improved. i was fairly astounded by the intractability of the republican party. >> you write a lot about the people who represent some of the republicans, on both sides. >> they are comedians. >> sean hannity and bill o'reilly. ann coulter. >> she is truly funny. >> why do you say they are comedians? >> they do not have any respect for the truth. it does not make any difference to them. see, the thing that is great about that is, when he's caught, he says basically, oh, i'm an entertainer. i don't see why these people are getting upset with me. i wake up in the morning and i think of something and i go to the studio and i start talking. i go in front of the camera and i start talking. he's a different kind of a guy. >> you have written about a couple of msnbc -- joe scarborough. >> he is very important because he recognizes some of the problems. he is a conservative who says he does not belie