pegues: simon & schuster wrote the implant. have a whole staff of lawyers, that book has been heavily vetted. i mean, we had to go back and forth on names, places, take this out, take this out. so many drafts of the book, heavily vetted. brian: how did you do the book? how did you actually put words on paper? mr. pegues: well, believe it or not, when i got injured in september, 2011 and had a major surgery, i had two back surgeries i knew i would never , be a police officer again, as you have to be at full duty, even if you are the boss. you have to be able to run in jump over events if somebody is chasing you down the block. if i get hurt, obviously i would be a liability for the city. they were not going to let you work again except for exceptions. some people do. i knew i wasn't one of those exceptions. so, i started writing my story in the hospital bed. brian: did you write this all yourself? mr. pegues: i wrote my own story. i walked into simon & schuster with a script like this, date books. a big stack of date books. i do

i walked into simon & schuster with a script like this, date books. a big stack of date books. don't have that picture in the book. i really should've had that picture in the book. i kept a journal every single year as a police officer and i wrote down -- i didn't write every day. sometimes every week or every month. the giuliani story. all the stories in the book, i wrote them already. when i walked into simon & schuster with my book agent, we sat down with harpercollins and everybody and they were looking, wow, you wrote all of that and you write your own manuscript? it felt good. i already wrote the book. the book was written. brian: let me read something. we're jumping all over the place but the -- i want to get as much as we can. let me read back what you wrote. give me the circumstances. by the time they pull the guy off of me, i was hot. i was seeing red. i was covered in cuts and scrapes, this guy's blood all over me. we cuffed him and i went to walk amount to the patrol car. at the top of the stairs, he stumbled and slipped out of my hand. i didn't push him, but i didn

bill by the bar schuster, just a private guy. >> i could tell stories. he was wonderful in a time in our life at united's life that was dark. thank you for that. meaningful balance and support, but it was worthwhile. it was a wonderful experience. >> so before we go more into kind of the company and there's a lot i want to talk to you about. i mentioned earlier it's a cliche, but this is the american dream story. this is the story we all imagined this country is about. but the reality is that it really isn't so much. right? if you look at some of the recent data, social mobility in this country is at a lower point now than it's been in generations, i think. the chances of moving from the bottom fifth of your economic status to the top fifth is about 7.5%. it doesn't happen a lot. productivity increased, almost doubled since 1980. real wages have stayed roughly flat. as a ceo generally, not even of united, you indicated, i got a good quote from your wonderful staff that you want united to be a company that's profitable and principled. employees make a liv

much a schuster's roses in her own garden are her pride and joy. 9 years ago she and her family moved from poland to germany they bought their house for little money and spent years renovating and expanding it was based in fact it was all tangly the grass was knee high and we had trouble getting through because everything was covered in the needles so. called. such moving to germany was a huge opportunity for martha here she runs her own care service and several vacation homes in addition she could take care of her children and work from home the family could only find a big enough house in germany where to spreading the properties are cheaper in this part of germany than neighboring poland. off to nothing because i often receive messages from acquaintances or even people i don't know asking if i have any hot tips for a house or a nice piece of property available for sale real estate is becoming scarce and up one in 8 residents of garth's a small town in the river odor is from poland and the numbers are rising. and the germans. are they getting used to the polish neighbors bringing ne

are being where they're operating the bear rumored to be hitting places like chicago los angeles schuster in miami all places with large hispanic populations the only place we know is safe is new orleans because it was just struck by a hurricane in the administration is that it would not conduct raids there that is to avoid. keeping people from going to centers for shelter where they would otherwise be taken care of at was just a safety issue and the administration says it's targeting 2000 families these are families who've crossed recently as a group and that's a different enforcement priority than they usually carry out usually they target individuals who have crossed over and mayors across the united states are rebelling against this major u.s. cities are generally democratic democrat governed and in places like chicago where democratic governor lori lightfoot has said she will not cooperate with these ice raids in fact she was refusing to allow the immigrations and customs enforcement officials to use the chicago police database in order to track these people down in new york mayor bi