someone from jackson that stokes robertson new. these people reappear in various forms throughout the story. i hope i have given you something of the flavor of the book and what it tries to do. i want to close with my favorite passage in the book. may be even inspiring. it was not written by me. this is by langston hughes and the chicago defender, october of 1962. toast to ole miss. here's to ole miss who fluttered and flared and cussed and squared and tried to keep colored folks out by hook or by crook and loopholes they took in the law and ignatius and proclamation to the job showing off their bravery like in slavery when white folks were the law and it could not be colored man down to the ground and he dare not fight back because he was black. but in this day and time things is not that way. a testament to ole miss on immigration day. thank you. [applause] if you have questions i will be glad to at least listen to them and maybe try to answer them. anyone? yes? >> what is the response to your book? has he read it? >> i interview

pat robertson -- pat robertson said if republicans don't start spend -- don't stop spending money this way, they will throw them out. people vote for them because they think they are conservative, not because there are republicans. let's go to dick armey. i feel bad because you have not had a chance to talk tonight. >> i was afraid i was going to have to do my best horshack imitation treat you don't remember your culture in this group. we know that good nutrition is essential to life. we all know that in america, good nutrition is a right. we also know that senior citizens are people of extremely bad judgment. have you ever watched senior citizens in a grocery store? my goodness, the crap they buy. they're clogging up their lotteries, drinking whiskey and beer. did you ever look any senior citizen -- what irresponsible behavior. these people cannot be trusted to look after their own best interests. on top of the irresponsible, ignorant seniors -- >> john, if you like to walk offstage while he finishes this, you can. >> john is not there yet. these people who have been feeding themselve

i just want to say one thing about pat robertson.ave been watching him since my grandmother forced me to watch him. [laughter] back in the 1970's. i never really appreciated his impact on this country even though i watched him as long as i did. until after hurricane katrina roldan across the gulf coast. i live in pensacola, florida. we started going over, my wife and i, the morning after hurricane katrina hit, we ran over to new orleans. i did my show there that night. my wife came back crying because there was no water. we saw babies wandering around with parents in diapers to 03 days old. we immediately started raising money. we started noticing, even though fema was no there, even though the state was not there, and even though the red cross was not there, we started noticing these young kids show up prett. they said they came from pat robertson's group. it was unbelievable. it just struck me that i did not hear that in the mainstream media other than on our show. through the years, people were always trying to find a controversia

. >> angus robertson leader of the scottish national power. .s angus was indicating the debate over what's actually going to be passed before the general election and what will end up hitting the buffers starts now. what's it going to be like in politics over the four or five months. >> i think you'll see a huge dominance of the political themes we talked about which will then be determined obviously centrally by the prebudget report, the budget that is likely to come before an election. you'll get these debates that we've had about the role of government, too big, too small and so own that will be debated. it may either have people cheering saying good old harry on the bill or cursing him and saying not more political correctness. and to forget really big pieces of legislation like the equality bill. . this is really a culmination of a quarter of century's of wor she has fought for legislation that give more rights for women and gay and lesbian people and so then. and i suspect when you open your news, a year, five years time we'll still be tal

i would like her in a way in terms of politics to pat robertson when he ran for president, 70% of the country. >> ralph nader. >> probably more. were scared of this guy. >> more raffle of nader. >> there is the core problem and i think primarily she's a cultural figure not a political figure. >> i heard we have a "playgirl" pick posted on "the daily news" website. oh it's just from the head up? >> oh, come on. i could do that. >> what's this, what is he doing, this? this is like a pose i do with my trainer lady. >> what is embarrassing is a-rod kissing himself in the mirror pictures but it's getting there. >> we hear that he posed with a hockey stick, i'm just saying. i don't know what that's about. >> how much of the hockey stick is needed of course, that's still open to speculation. >> well that would determine his popularity. >> yes. >> sarah palin is crying foul over the cover of "newsweek" magazine, not about the question of whether or not she's a problem but over the photo they used. here is the picture, saying that it's sexist, people are saying it's sexist. get a close-up look

. >> very quickly to former chief of police, boca raton, vp of scott robertson associates. us. i want to ask you about phyllis in tennessee's question. the child was taken out of school for weeks, but nobody contacted the primary guardian. >> that's a problem. it's a problem on several accounts. with regards to first and foremost, nobody from the school checking in on the parent and on the child as to why the child was pulled out. seconda secondarily, the father has just as much right to know what the condition of the student is, and particularly being his child, he should have known as well. both -- the system has failed completely on many levels for this child. >> on many, many levels. >> to dr. oliver, former deputy investigator, forensic pathologist. dr. oliver, they're telling me tonight they haven't finished the autopsy. that is complete b.s. it does not take three days to do an autopsy. it doesn't. maybe they are waiting on toxicology reports. why would they even say that, because they don't want to release the outcome yet? >> that's correct, nancy. it only takes abo

. >> reporter: jasmine robertson says her cousin is a good-hearted soul. >> she'll help anyone. anyone. she will help, if you were in need, she would help you. she's a nice person. she don't care what she got to do to go out of her way, she would do it for you. >> reporter: mother to a 5-year-old boy on her way to see the father of her unborn child. the family tells us that man married to another woman had been wanting to meet privately with her for some time. samira only wanted to meet 3ub likely but she gave in. she's been missing ever since. >> i hope she's not anywhere hurt. if anybody saw thing or saw her, i hope they come forward. >> reporter: moving into this unit below the one samira was going to. he said the man living here was awfully busy move out of here. two days after she went missing. >> in a hurry to get gone. a u-haul trailer. didn't see the tags. everything moving over here. as far as they was, just in a hurry for the family, a tough few days especially when the 5-year-old starts asking questions. >> how's he doing? asking questions about mom? >> yes, actually

i would like her in a way in terms of politics to pat robertson when he ran for president, 70% of the country. >> ralph nader. >> probably more. were scared of this guy. >> more raffle of nader. >> there is the core problem and i think primarily she's a cultural figure not a political figure. >> i heard we have a "playgirl" pick posted on "the daily news" website. oh it's just from the head up? >> oh, come on. i could do that. >> what's this, what is he doing, this? this is like a pose i do with my trainer lady. >> what is embarrassing is a-rod kissing himself in the mirror pictures but it's getting there. >> we hear that he posed with a hockey stick, i'm just saying. i don't know what that's about. >> how much of the hockey stick is needed of course, that's still open to speculation. >> well that would determine his popularity. >> yes. >> sarah palin is crying foul over the cover of "newsweek" magazine, not about the question of whether or not she's a problem but over the photo they used. here is the picture, saying that it's sexist, people are saying it's sexist. get a close-up look

. >> very quickly to former chief of police, boca raton, vp of scott robertson associates.th us. i want to ask you about phyllis in tennessee's question. the child was taken out of school for weeks, but nobody contacted the primary guardian. >> that's a problem. it's a problem on several accounts. with regards to first and foremost, nobody from the school checking in on the parent and on the child as to why the child was pulled out. secondarily, the father has just as much right to know what the condition of the student is, and particularly being his child, he should have known as well. both -- the system has failed completely on many levels for this child. >> on many, many levels. >> to dr. oliver, former deputy investigator, forensic pathologist. dr. oliver, they're telling me tonight they haven't finished the autopsy. that is complete b.s. it does not take three days to do an autopsy. it doesn't. maybe they are waiting on toxicology reports. why would they even say that, because they don't want to release the outcome yet? >> that's correct, nancy. it only takes about two

let me come now to ian robertson london. >> there is a question directly principally to the founder of which perhaps mark walport congealed on behalf of them. it's the minister was here earlier and twice he said his big contribution to the win-win between health and climate was the change for life program which is the website for goodness sake and website and they will send you some toys and puzzles and it's done in collaboration with the food industry and you can go into the supermarket and play games. it is of the planet. i know why he didn't stay because if i had a chance to ask this question -- [laughter] sorted is very clear to me that the kind of political class's even though they say they have it haven't got it at all. when the wheels fell off the economy the first thing gordon brown did is gave payouts to the car industry and incentive scheme to scrap your car and get a new one. it is complete nonsense. so the question. [laughter] the question is it is clear actually we have worked hard disseminating these results up words, and nothing much is happening. we have to do exactly w

i want to ask you to comment on a statement of reverend pat robertson and recently and publicly asserted the following, that islam is not a religion, but a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the government and world domination. as to whether a statement such as that by a well-known american cleric makes it more difficult for moderate muslims to make the argument as to whether it's that kind of statement really really helps the enemy to radicalize people who would then commit terrorist acts against us. do you have a reaction to that? >> i stand by what i said which is the division of our society would be detrimental, the worst manifestation in this ideology. islam is one of the great religions in the world and at the end of the day it will be muslim americans who helped us to defeat this violent brand of it. >> it is important that it be contested and opposed, for a major religious leader in this country to label islam as a whole as a violent political system and on the overthrow of government. it plays right in the hands of the extremists and fanatics, gives them the propa

pat robertson the recently asserted the following.that is long is not a religion, but a violent political system bent on the overthrow the governments of the world and world domination. and as to whether or not a statement such as that by a well-known american cerlic makes -- cleric makes it more difficult for moderate muslims to make the argument, and indeed whether that kind of statement really helps the enemy radicalize people that would commit terrorist acts against us. you have a reaction to that? >> i will stand by what i said, which is the division of our society would be detrimental in the worst manifestation of the effect of this ideology. as long as one of the great religions of the world, and at the end of the day, it will be muslim americans that help us defeat this violent brand of it. >> i think it is important that it be contested and opposed. for a major religious leader in this country to label as long -- islam as a whole as a violent organization plays into the hands of the extremists and gives them the propaganda to

i want to ask you to comment on a statement of reverend pat robertson, who recently and very publicly asserted the following. that islam is "not a religion, but a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination." whether or not such a statement such as that by a well-known american cleric makes it more difficult for moderate muslims to make the argument, and indeed whether that kind of statement really helps the enemy to radicalize people who would then commit terrorist acts against us. do you have a reaction to that comment? >> senator, i think i will just stand by what i said, which is the division of our society would be detrimental and would be the worst manifestation and effects of this violent islamic extremistiology. islamism is one of the great religions of the world, and in the end i think it is going to be muslim-americans that will help us defeat it. >> i want to press you on this question because i think it important for it cob contested and opposed, for a major religious leader in this country to label islam as a violent