please welcome richard ford. (cheers and applause) mr. nks so much for coming on. >> good to be here. >> all right, sir, let's get out what is quite the impressive resume for you. >> there's no need to do that. >> stephen: no, the audience needs to know what a powerhouse i'm sitting across from right now. you are a novelist short story writer best known for "the sports writer" and its sequels "independence day" and "the lay of the land." "independence day," the first novel to win both the pulitzer and penn faulkner award. now, i don't normally have novelists on because i do not like people who lie to me. (laughter) okay? novels aren't true, right? they aren't factual. >> that's really an old saw, you know, about novels being lies. novels are much better than lies actually.3y+ lies you have to finally 'fess up to at the end, get caught at. novels you don't have to do that. novel cans actually aspire to be the truth even. >> stephen: will w a capital "t "t"? >> or a little one if you like. >> stephen: you're shooting for one right now with y

i spent most of my time -- >> i have a galley of richard ford's canada and that is the book i'm goingread.

i think gerald ford, if i'm not mistaken, i think richard nixon and george bush -- george herbert walker bush. we're grateful for all the years you served and continue to serve. dr. pierre peterson. has your first name ever been pronounced? every day? >> i must profess, i don't pronounce it correctly because i don't have a swedish accent. it happens every now and then. >> i come from new sweden. came to america. 375 years ago. it's now wilmington, delaware. so a special welcome. you're currently, as i understand, a professor of nuclear energineering at uc berkeley. general scowcroft said you're the brains in the operation. that's a high compliment. i know he's got plenty of brains, himself. so does congressman hamilton. the full content of your written statement will be included in the record. i'll ask you to go ahead and proceed. we'll probably start voting around

richard nixon. after nixon was pardoned, nixon went on an upstaging trip to china right near the new hampshire primary. ford was put in a position to having to defend the guy who had once again embarrassed him. >> he's going under the guidelines. >> you see no complications to foreign policy in his trip? >> none, whatsoever. chris: i remember reading that. he showed off, getting all the press attention, national news. at the very moment jerry ford was trying to run for president. >> at the same time jerry ford never apologized for the pardon. he knew exactly, you know, how damaging it was to him politically and the thing he was proudest of that caroline and ted kennedy gave him the profile and courage award for having pardoned richard nixon. you know there was a lot of deep resentment over that trip. chris: he was out secretly giving advice to ronald reagan in began's first race for the presidency. >> one of the thing that impresses me in mike's book in addition to the general brilliance is what you see about ike. ike who's a master behind the scenes playing the role of the former president with these other

south of us, places like quantico, down toward staff ford, saw it earlier, now a couple of sprinkles toward richard if they hold together at all. temps still in the lower 80s at cambridge. upper 60s in martinsburg and cumberland. it's 80 here in d.c. as of noon, everybody east of the blue ridge southern maryland and easter shore, the metro, heat index could top 105. >>> it is 5:30. let's check in with monika samtani on a light thursday so far. >> we have one accident in prince william county dumfries road at bristol road. it's light and easy, and i think we deserve easy right now, especially with the week that we've had. no problems to report coming out of dumfries. i know authorities are on the scene there. other than that, no big delays to worry about. we'll take you out live right now on the northbound side of i-95. here's the way it looks in springfield moving well. a quick look on the other side of town on our maps. no problems to report, coming in from the west on the dulles toll road or 66. i'll have more in my next report at 5:40. >>> it might have. a crowd a little smaller than usual, but

. >> sreenivasan: richard volpe, an economist at the u.s.d.a., thanks for your time. florida has recalled nearly... ford has recalled some of their escape s.u.v.s, their throttles can stick. the warning affects models from 2001 to 2004. most were sold in the u.s. just last week the automaker recalled 11,500 of its new 2013 escapes for fuel lines that can crack and start fires. investigators in the colorado shootings worked today on a package sent to the university of colorado-denver. the alleged gunman james holmes had been a grad student there. unconfirmed reports said the package held a notebook describing the impending attack. meanwhile, more than 1,200 mourners filled a denver church for the second funeral since friday's mass shooting in aurora, colorado. and in washington, the u.s. house adopted a resolution honoring the victims and first responders. >> as a father, i can't imagine the great loss of families, of friends, of victims of this horrendous crime. and our hearts, our prayers, our thoughts go with them as we build a stronger community going forward. >> we can mourn for the victims, which i

richard wolffe if it has any chance of working. >> to say that steve jobs didn't build apple computer or that bill gates didn't build microsoft or henry ford adopts the fox news lie about the president's small business comment. >> a lot of people were waiting for that to come out. >> and then agrees with the full context of the president's comment on small business. >> by the way, there are a lot of people in government who help us. >> we'll go inside the anatomy of a fox news lie. >> and the big panel weighs in on george w. bush's jaw-dropping new interview. >> eight years was awesome. and you know, i was famous and i was powerful. >> good to have you with us. thanks for watching. another day, another new plan of attack for the romney campaign. yesterday, it was the dart board mentality. today, it's the kitchen sink approach. >> his priority is not creating jobs for you. his priority is trying to keep his own job, and that's why he's going to lose it. he's out of touch, out of ideas, out of excuses. that's why in november we have to get him out of office. he divides us. he tried to diminish those who have

richard wolffe if it has any chance of working. >> to say that steve jobs didn't build apple computer or that bill gates didn't build microsoft or henry ford didn't build ford motor company -- >> mitt romney adopts the fox news lie about the president's small business comment. >> a lot of people were waiting for that to come out. >> and then agrees with the full context of the president's comment on small business. >> by the way, there are a lot of people in government who help us. >> we'll go inside the anatomy of a fox news lie. >> and the big panel weighs in on george w. bush's jaw-dropping new interview. >> eight years was awesome. and you know, i was famous and i was powerful. >> good to have you with us. thanks for watching. another day, another new plan of attack for the romney campaign. yesterday, it was the dart board mentality. today, it's the kitchen sink approach. >> his priority is not creating jobs for you. his priority is trying to keep his own job, and that's why he's going to lose it. he's out of touch, out of ideas, out of excuses. that's why in november we have to get him out of office. he divides us. he tried to diminis

richard wolffe if it has any chance of working. >> to say that steve jobs didn't build apple computer or that bill gates didn't build microsoft or henry fordt build ford motor company -- >> mitt romney adopts the fox news lie about the president's small business comment. >> a lot of people were waiting for that to come out. >> and then agrees with the full context of the president's comment on small business. >> by the way, there are a lot of people in government who help us. >> we'll go inside the anatomy of a fox news lie. >> and the big panel weighs in on george w. bush's jaw-dropping new interview. >> eight years was awesome. and you know, i was famous and i was powerful. >> good to have you with us. thanks for watching. another day, another new plan of attack for the romney campaign. yesterday, it was the dart board mentality. today, it's the kitchen sink approach. >> his priority is not creating jobs for you. his priority is trying to keep his own job, and that's why he's going to lose it. he's out of touch, out of ideas, out of excuses. that's why in november we have to get him out of office. he divides us.

richard moore in the sewing factory at colorado's limon correctional facility. he first came to prison in 1976. personal computers and cell phones were still more than a decade away. gerald fordl. the country was also going through what was widely regarded as a sexual revolution. that's when moore's troubles began. >> i was convicted of killing my wife in 1976 in the state of iowa. >> moore's wife, terri williams, was a dancer at a local club when their relationship began. >> i was just a customer. i just walked in off the street. we met, hit it off pretty decently, you know, and ended up -- well, we picked each other up actually, so we went to terri's apartment and made love and enjoyed each other's company, you know. we got married. then i began to have thoughts about terri. i thought maybe terri was a little bit different, you know. >> how so? >> i felt that the person was more like a man than like a woman, and i thought that the person maybe had been a man. >> why? >> from feeling into this area of their body, you know. i thought that's very similar to me, you know. it's like the person has had their sex organ removed. that's what i thought, you know, but i wasn't complet

ford out. but finally loses to him. thativeshis eecht eliftheon mumo aisiae ot t win t wrong man. the book opens with richardn in his home office in sacramento, watching ion what he ol clt. here he is watchcni w hamller ce e it n lyau irt i am only as far as the prologue -- so it sort of feels like a sequel to me. >> thank focused on nonfiction authors an books. watch it here on c-span . in3, ileng spf lseoxty towa'ssi procss. mr. owen created an urban farm that now grossed 40 tons of vegetables and raises 100000 fish that c be0,000 people . willet ro rsitint ckouasapwh inner city land with greenhouses. he built the country's preimminent farm. he s an ceo of the oanizio atdep cmuf sys ec 8 s d daeag srt. only the second farmer to be honored. [applause] he's also -- [applause] he's also a meber h inglitie uan, as i to w hirs dyheobinaung t've rsna leadership program to reverse the epidemic of childhood obese in americ in 201 te zindh t ftippl d01-au hew named one of the seven world's most influential foodies. he was named the0nc evawcits helesw fe eeisin w eo la ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ such a wl n optet ♪ re radua