jon stewart this evening, cnn, piers morgan and we're delighted to have our wonderful and our old friend here from c-span filming this event that many people across the united states can really benefit from a lot of what michele has to say. such as to kickstart it this evening, michele, how did you come up with a fast and interesting book "radical" come and where did this interesting name come from? >> so, i think the genesis of the name isn't interesting one in that when i first got to d.c., it was the lowest performing and most dysfunctional school district in the entire nation, and that was a pretty widely known truth. and so i started doing things that i thought were obvious for a school district in the kind of state. i started closing low performing schools, moving out ineffective employees, cutting the central office bloated bureaucracy in half. nss take all of these steps and measures, people started saying, she's a firebrand, she's a radical, she's so controversial. i thought, really? after think about it for a while find i just said it brings some common sense take a social syst