why scientology was invented here? why mormonism was invented here? christian science, we could go on. it is a defining part of america. - well now, let's go to the president, and really, the president is the link between book one and book two. - [kurt] he is. - in the sense that you the the president is the apotheosis of fantasyland, right? - yes. - no one more than he. and this book, which is a parody of the president, that you co-wrote with alec baldwin, kind of the fake president of the united states at the moment. - correct, correct. the resistance is president of the united states. - this memoir which you and alec co-wrote in the voice of the president, we're kind of getting at the same thing, the real is the unreal, the unreal is the real. - well, indeed, and my first reader as always was my wife ann, who read this as i was writing and said, i literally, as i was reading, forgot that i wasn't reading the words of donald trump. - reading the actual donald trump, yeah. - yes, indeed. and i have this fond idea, i mean he's not going to read this,

operably the most interesting one was scientology. everybody in this town has an opinion on scientology, but do you actually know what it is? we know obviously the corruption and the abuses of the church, but a religion isn't a church. there are more than a billion catholics. you can't just say oh because of the pedophilia scandal than all those billions of catholics are all somehow responsible for those crimes. and so, that was the when i thought was very interesting, people had the hardest time with and the hardest time admitting to me that oh, well i guess it's not that weird or it's not any weirder than any other religion. that's the thing. having people sometimes dismiss scientology because they say well it's just, it's all science fiction and my response is, have you read the bible? >> to have time for one more question? the gentleman. [inaudible] >> i was wondering, could you talk about the role of women in connection with god and also in connection with islam, especially early islam because a lot of times people don't understa

sure a kid sitting somewhere making jokes about scientology isn't a threat to anybody so that if yourun these marketplaces like silk road and he's in jail and if you look at the logs he kept as he was running this is us more like the server crashed and leaked my address. he knew that they were actively looking for him at that moment like to agence had infiltrated his organization and were pretending to be his friend. he was being actively sought and his server was crashing all the time and that's how he was caught in the end so i look at that and i think that's crazy he believed in it so much that even reality didn't stop them. knowing his server crashed and leaked his identity he still used it and believed in it. again, ideology is a powerful thing and it makes you ignore facts and things that are pretty apparent to other people. i don't know if that answers your question. >> thank you so much. [applause]

sounds like something out of scientology.imited state are intentionally pushed down on the site so they're harder to find. they're also demonetized many people who post them can't make money from them no matter how often they are viewed. think that isn't a big deal? what would happen if you couldn't buy "the new york times" on a newsstand. what would happen if its publishers when allowed to make money from selling it? does that qualify as a censorship question mike obviously, of course it would. what is the criteria for censoring videos on youtube? according to the memo "controversial religious or supremacist content qualifies. sodas highly controversial -- what does that mean? none of it is defined and it's totally subjective. youtube makes the call and does so with maximum political intent. for example, youtube decided it was inflammatory to question the notion that all cops are racist. if you don't think they are, you're in trouble according to youtube, so his video was demonetized yet videos that suggest that white people

it sounds like out of scientology.e are intentionally pushed down on the site so they are harder to find. they are also demonetized, meaning the people who post them count to make money no matter how often they are viewed. you think that isn't a big deal? what would happen if you couldn't find "the new york times" in a newsstand. what would happen if its publishers weren't allowed to make money? with that qualify censorship? what are the criteria for censoringhe videos on youtube? according to the memo, "controversial, religious, or supremacist content qualifies, so it is highly controversial, inflammatory content. what does that mean? none of it is defined, it is totally subjective. youtube makes the call and does so with maximum political intent. for example, youtube decided to as inflammatory for prager u to question the notion that all cops are racist. if you don't think they are, you are in trouble, according to youtube. prager u's video is the monetized and declared hate speech. videos that suggest that white peo

. >> in my opinion, it's basically copied from other sources, specifically scientology, ayn rand, and est. so, there's all of that mixed together, and that becomes nxivm. very unoriginal. >> reporter: original or not, raniere's teachings were good enough for sarah and her friend mark to spend more than a decade rising through the nxivm ranks, and becoming ever more willing to follow their leaders. >> if you're told, "the world could be so much better if you weren't quite so screwed up," you're like, "you're right. let me get more unscrewed up." and pretty soon you're spending years unscrewing yourself. >> reporter: sarah says she devoted 12 years to nxivm, recruiting hundreds of new members, rising through the organization, even opening and running a center in vancouver. along the way, becoming best friends with nancy salzman's daughter lauren, who was maid of honor at sarah's wedding. >> she's like my therapist. and in the ranking system she's also above me. >> reporter: then, in march, 2017, after all their years together in nxivm, sarah says lauren, who has not been charged, approa