. >> author james past at theson, think i read somewhere, told by somebody who knows this, that one in 36 books in the united states has your name on it. >> i hear these things but -- fake news. i don't pay any attention to it. a lot of people who like my books, which is terrific for me, and especially with people going into book stores and library jazz how many books you're working on right now? >> guest: i lose track. usual lay dozen or so books i'm doing at one time. last year i wrote two books and this is a weird one. if you think this through, wrote 2500 pages of outlines last year and all my outlines are a draft so draft of 2500 page warm it's all imagination, all just making up stories. here's a story and here's hour i see the story going, we have the -- a book i'm doing with president bill clinton,, and its in outline. >> host: you've done the outline? >> guest: oh, yeah. we are halfway through, we meet frequently, talk on the find lot and it's great. he is a good story-teller, too, and he has information about the presidency and the government that other people don't have. so

nancy: theson of linda mcmahon head of the small business administration. michelle: must-see video from comic con in phoenix. dressed like punisher most assumed that this man's guns were fake. right? part of a cos sume. they weren't. the police arrested him after receiving a tim he planned to kill another convention goer. the incident have the convention organizers around the country rethinking the rules on the prop guns. nancy: a cargo ship trip turning and what happened. >> first, a state trooper said he went flying the wrong day down the interstate. what nancy: shocking video led to the resignation of a state trooper who was racing the wrong way down the interstate. he was responding to reports of a group of the b.m.w.'s racing down the highway. the drivers were arrested. the cars were impounded. the highway patrol policy allows troopers to drive into oncoming traffic but only if the need to respond outweighs the danger all that happened when the deputy tried to pull over the man for expired license plate. the driver was only only person hurt. nancy: mor

the giant chunk of ice snapped off from theson sea ice. she.grew more than 120 miles long. big icebergs break off naturally they're not tributing the rift to man made climb change. >>> a huge northern california wildfire sent thousands fleeing their homes. it burned nearly nine square miles and injured four firefighters, 41 homes and more than 50 other buildings were destroyed it's about 60% co evacuates are slowly but surely returning. >>> sometimes it pays for a hero. >>> a group of firefighters who had been battling the raging wildfires in california got a special surprise. about 25 firefighters went out for a bite to eat eat at denny's. the bill came to more than $400 including tip. another customer eating at the restaurant wanted to show her appreciation to the firefighters. says she not only paid the bill but also shell out $100 to treat the crew to dessert. that's pretty nice. >> there you have it. paying it forward in any way you can. let's talk a little bit about what we got going on outside right now. >> did i hear sue say it wasn't t

this is a december pot, doesn't care about the -- despot he doesn't care about theson ty of the peopleesident trump tries to figure out what the people want, putting the united states first machlt dur maduro is looking at whatever lines his pockets. this is bad for the country. the american should look at this and say president trump and the trump administration care about human rights, they care about venezuela but we'll see what we can do that is progressmatic and realistic to make sure this country doesn't go down the path of cuba. >> neil: one thing that comes up, this is a country that had enormous wealth with its own and everything else. it blew through it all and becoming this socialist cradle to grave giveaway that started under chavez and continues with maduro. is there any turning back? any economic sanctions on top of what they experience, maduro will argue could help him. he can make the argument to his people this is what america is doing to you. >> venezuelan people understand this. this is what he has done to them. there is one city that showed the average venezuelan has

is theson i am asking free and open internet is being threatened. right now, the federal commission -- communications commission and there do later -- is talking about setting aside something called net neutrality. net neutrality means you get to go where you want, when you want, how you want. statementultimate in abiding insuring everyone has a chance to get ahead. and he wants to set up something called "priority lanes." what it basically means is people with deep pockets will get that prime lane and everyone else would probably have to wait for their content. and what they need. now, the big lobbies are really pushing this, and so i put a link up on my website. if you share the view that we ought to be protecting net neutrality, you can weigh in by just going to that link. here is the most interesting argument. that big companies constantly keep merging, they don't like to stand up in front of a crowd like this and say that they are against net neutrality. so they say they are for "voluntary net neutrality." said, that has got about as much chanc

is theson i say that danger of the chinese currency was during the end of 2015 and early 2016 when thew, it looks like everything is on the upswing. most importantly, the u.s. dollar has already reached a broad pop. if that is the right judgment, i atnk the chinese currency 3.5% yields offers an interesting alternative for most bond managers around the world. david: the question about china has been doing no what i am investing in. how will they know what they are investing in? how do western agencies rate these bonds? >> if you open up your bond market, you have to let rating agencies go in. not, you do not know what you are buying. the key point is this. we are talking about government bonds right now. but very soon, they will probably open the corporate bond market. that is when foreign rating agencies become critical because that is the only way to tell objectively whether a bond is worth its while or not. the chinese government reaching agencies -- ratings agencies, i have reservations about them. david: is this going to help the chinese government with respect to capital flows? >