first you get the kids in t-shirt and then read saul's book. or "the new organizers," a fellow at the radical left wing george soros open society institute. do you think that is okay? this guy brought us the new kind of politics that obama is high about, during the campaign, let's just be good to each other. the guy who wrote the second book is the one who came up with the antibush slogan "just say no to a former cocaine abuser." well, that doesn't sound like what obama says he is for or what i want my kids to learn. the third book is "stir it up," from the leftist activist. i love all that work. if my kid is going in to be an intern for campaign and it teaches them of civics, duty, honor, standing up for things that are principle, learn more of our country and the founding, that is great. but if you teach my kid that the ends justify the means and tearing people apart without evidence or substance, is something they did this their past, if you think that is okay, just smear them to get elected, as long as you win, i don't think america should

drew me to orwell in my 20s was the sense that this is available, this is not the mad brilliance of saul bellow. this is not faulkener's air bess, and it felt like natural prose and that is -- >> doesn't maky feel as you are reading the book, why do i bother. >> impossible. i can admire but i also, you know, can feel sort of discouraged by it. with him you feel encouraged by the and want to do it yourself. that is kneeling that he gives me, wants you to try -- the feeling that he gives me, you wanted to try to write an essay like that because the prose is simple and has the plain style and it seems like the leading characteristic of it is honesty, which one ought to be capable of. on the other hand, i think triing might go too far in the the sense that decency alone, i think the word he uses about orwell, it is a key orwell word, common decency and it is an important one but he was an eccentric. orwell was a difficult man. he had -- full of contradictions and he was not so simple and good, i think as trilling would have you think and you alluded to his antipathies and he was a man of vio

>> i think that working with people, especially richard saul and lenny k, all of the people i work withilding and keeping and maintaining a sense of improvisation. right from the start, we started working with 3 quarts, -- 3 chords, a little rhythm, and language. "horses" was improvised in the studio, the other albums were improvised in the studio, and i have maintained that right from the beginning to the last record, "trampings," which has a five minute improvisation on radio baghdad, improvised in the studio. i think that is much more credit to my people who are willing to go anywhere with me, and also people who have given me the opportunity to make records thee this that are not structured -- who give me the space to present songs like this that are not structured. they are not smokey robinson's songs. god bless smokey robinson, i don't have his gift. but i have the ability to riff for quite some time and to go out there and hopefully speak to god a little bit and come back and give it to the people. and i think that is what i and my musicians have done. tavis: there you go with th

as saul alinsky said, the ends justify the means. it doesn't matter. just get it done. watch this. see if you recognize the -- i'm just going to compare and contrast. here is f.d.r., another huge progressive, 1933. s>> if we cannot do this one way, we will do it another. but do it we will. >> got it? can't do it the one way, we'll do it another, but we are going to do it. watch this from the "state of the union," just what was it, last week? >> that's why i've called for bipartisan fiscal commission. yesterday, senate blocked a bill that would have created this commission. so i'll issue an executive order that will allow to us go forward, because i refuse to pass this problem on to another generation of americans. >> glenn: do it we will. finally there is pelosi on this case. the american people made it clear we don't want healthcare, but do it we will. what has she just said? >> we go to the gate, the gates close, we go to the fence, if the fence is too high, we'll pole vault. in if that doesn't work, we'll parachute. but we are going to get healthcare reform passed for the americ

tell us, i didn't realize that was a dumb thing to say and we saul say dumb things . now to -- and we all say dumb things from time to time. now to tell us all the hearings in congress were on c-span they were before he was elected. and he says my meetings were open except for the legislative leaders not true because it didn't include the unions and -- it is not so. >> it is false, okay. he goes on to say that we are at the five yard line in the process of getting this health care bill to become law. i don't think factually speaking, that's true. i don't think we are all so close to seeing this health care plan, idea, scheme, bill, whatever you want to call it. i think we are a long way. in fact, i don't think we are going to see think year. he's smart enough to know that many in the white house spent the last year working on it know that the. you are not going to convince moderate democrats to destroy their political careers to support this. >> greta: maybe they ought to do something old fashioned, recognize the the american people need relief, forget it is an electi

thanks to our guests but our biggest thank you as sauls to you for being with us. and a special good flight the new york control room. good night, brett, liz, rosy. everyone, i'll see you tomorrow night 8:00 sharp eastern. and until then, good night, friend.

this is not the bad -- mad brilliance of saul bellow, not falkners, this isn't hemingway. it felt like natural prose. i can admire and feel discouraged by it. with orwell you feel encouraged. you want to try to write an essay like that. because the prose is simple, it has that -- the plain style, and it seems like the leading characteristic of it is honesty. and it might be a little too far in the sense of decency alone is not -- it's a key orwell word, common decency, and it's important one, but orwell was an eccentric. he was a difficult man. he had incredible -- full of contradictions. he was not so simple and good, i think, as chilling would have you think, and you eluded to some of his antipathies, and his -- he was a man of violent dislikes, and in some of his earlier work, before i think he calmed down with a certain amount of self-assurance, denunsation was his characters mode. so he is not so -- certainly not a saint, and he is not simply a good man whose quality of characters allowed him to write great books. but those -- but there's enough truth to that that he

coast and i have been reading a book with the various stories in it called chicken soup with a teenage saul and is about how teenagers will have problems in school and their lives and how to over, those problems. it is really nice because we are all in middle school, becoming teen-agers and staff, so that is why i picked that up to read. >> would you enjoy most about the seed school, how did you get in? >> well, my friend only about seed school and so i really wanted to apply because i've always wanted to go to a boarding school. i thought it would be a really fun experience. i favor part about this seed school is learning on i hired lover and learning new things that i didn't know before like algebra. i never thought i would learn some of the things that i'm learning now. all those things i thought would be so hard i would wait until tenth grade to learn but have already in seventh grade, already learning those things and it's exciting. >> so your library in school, if people are watching this and want to donate something to the seed school would be the best kind of books or resources to d

. >> but what power divines saul the river ride? de-sal at the current time is very energy intensive and and we use fossil fuel. so that by it self is the offset for the climate change. cost have come down enormously i did not discuss this but there is an enormous amount of private investment in filtration and others but intel whole technologies' it is like the whole pre-.com movement is what i feel like and want to correct one thing in the introduction on a confidence game actually think the central bankers were heroic and less not all critical of that but nevertheless, sorry about that since we are recorded i wanted to get it clear. [laughter] de-sal is also still coming down quite eager mislead but not quite there yet. the other part of de-sal you can use it along the coast but if there is no post you have to transport and land and energy and costly and a very heavy but the big hope is solar or wind will come along and create a renewable source of energy 40 sell at least -- de-sal of it was more costly similar to other competitiv

>> toyota sales here in the united states dropped 16% last month from a year ago while gm and ford saul that i sales rise. the transportation secretary is revealing today that toyota needed convincing from federal safety officials that it was dealing with a very serious problem. let's bring in our own brian todd. he's looking into the story that has huge ramifications. brian? >> very extraordinary comments from the transportation secretary today. the fallout from the recall now at critical mass, some very pointed comments at the highest levels here in washington. today transportation secretary ray lahood vigorously defended his agency's handling of the situation, saying toyota was too slow in addressing the safety problems, and that it took pressure from the government to get the auto maker to take action. a statement from lahood reads, quote -- hi went even further in an interview with the associated press. he says official from his department went to japan to remined toy the outa of their testify obligations, and -- now in an interview with the a.p., lahood said, quote, officials in t

this is not the mad brilliance of saul bellow. this isn't faulkner's arab desks.his is not -- this isn't even hemingway prose. this felt like natural pros. that is a conceit -- >> host: it doesn't make you feel as though you are reading a book for the simple white lie bothered. >> guest: impossible. i can admire but i also can feel sort of discouraged. no, with orwell you feel encouraged. you want to go do-it-yourself. that is the feeling he gives me. you want to try to write an essay like that because the pros simple and it has the plaine style and it seems like the leading characteristic is honesty which one ought to be capable of. on the other hand, i think that the trilling fight go a little too far in the sense that decency alone, that is i think the word that he uses about orwell is a key orwell wd, common decency and it's an important one but orwell was an eccentric orwell was a difficult man. he had -- full of contradictions. he wasn't so simple and good i think as trawling what have you think and do a little earlier to some of his antipathies and he was a