rob reiner who made one of the greatest movies a spinal tap which gives you my sense of humor i of the talks with him he read the book doesn't interest to develop into a television miniseries. how cool is this site to meet with the president and fly on air force one to meet with kings and queens and prime ministers was sitting with mike stick -- was pretty cool. he wanted to change and i said you figure what to do with television so i'm having conversations with rob reiner "the washington post" -- post gave a favorable review of was very gratified to be in the same review as others and i hesitate to say this in the independent bookstore but i will tell you there is the fairly popular online bookseller there ranks sales and several weeks ago aracaris several days ago i learned that we resisted the best-selling book category humor subcategory lot and the cords some subcategory by members of congress that live in long island. [laughter] thank-you. [applause] we will take your questions. >> good evening. there was a reference to your father speaking to dick cheney can you tell us about tha

rob reiner who made one of the greatest movies a spinal tap which gives you my sense of humor i of the talks with him he read the book doesn't interest to develop into a television miniseries. how cool is this site to meet with the president and fly on air force one to meet with kings and queens and prime ministers was sitting with mike stick -- was pretty cool. he wanted to change and i said you figure what to do with television so i'm having conversations with rob reiner "the washington post" -- post gave a favorable review of was very gratified to be in the same review as others and i hesitate to say this in the independent bookstore but i will tell you there is the fairly popular online bookseller there ranks sales and several weeks ago aracaris several days ago i learned that we resisted the best-selling book category humor subcategory lot and the cords some subcategory by members of congress that live in long island. [laughter] thank-you. [applause] we will take your questions. >> good evening. there was a reference to your father speaking to dick cheney can you tell us about tha

rob reiner who played one of the greatest movies i ever made spinal tap, gives you a sense of my sense of humor i'm in talks with him because he read the book and has an interest in developing it as a television miniseries. i met with him and how cool is that i get to meet with the president in the white house, get to fly on air force one and meet with kings and queens, prime ministers and defense ministers but let me tell you we were talking about the creative process and he said for television that we may have to change it a little bit and have a different appeal so but if we do this or that would you be okay with this or that and finally i said excuse me i'm okay with whatever you want to do and i will figure out what to do about isis and you figure out what to do about this book for television so i'm having conversations with him and the "washington post" book review several weeks ago gave it a favorable review. i was gratified being in the same review with someone like karl was one of the greatest thrills for me. i hesitate to say this but we were at the independent bookstore. i w

. >> maybe that's why rob reiner cast his mom estelle for a small but climactic moment. >> oh, god. >ed was singing as carl wrote something his wife loved until the day she died in 2008. why did you decide to write about the last moments of her life? >> because it was so beautiful. he is tell died at 94, she was 94, last year of her life was lying in bed. it was -- she always thought she was going to go back and sing. and she couldn't really get out of bed. she had major problems. >> she was here. >> her mind was always there. at the last moment she wasn't even breathing a breath every minute. a little something. and we touched her nothing. i said, lucas she should go out lovely like her last album. i put on, first song was "hey, you're adorable" that was playing. i said, play it up loud. ♪ b your so beautiful ♪ d is your charm. >> she'll here it as she's going. and we played it loud. one of the hospice nurses, she had such a lovely sweet voice. lucas went up to mom, she says you have a lovely sweet voice. and estelle passed away. her lips said thank you. i had to write about that. be