i thought, should i send this? i'm being presumptuous saying you have to write this book to get to the next which will be better. i thought, we are writers, we know how it is i can send this. so what if she doesn't talk to me for a year she will get over it. i sent it. within an hour an e mail came back and all it was was, you are right. she finished the next one. the bulk of the first draft in 6 months. so, you know, i mean, who knows. so i felt this way to a large extent. it was not easy it was hard in a lot of ways because of the culture and the story and because of getting it right but i thought it helped me as a writer. so i will sip not gin and read a section and i will throw it open and see if you can ask me something that you might be interested in instead of hearing me speak. whoa has read this book? do i need to explain? no. [laughter] i was -- i had written, 3 quarters of the book and i was getting tired of only seeing from the point of view of steven. sometimes you get bored with your own character and

i thought, this is not at all what i thought it would be. then i moved from you know, to the technical aspect film writing course i took. it felt technical because i felt i had to be aware of the camera angles. literally aware it had to go down longshot or closeup and it was interfering with the story line. i graduated from san francisco state and it was creative writing within the english department. i was taking a class much like this. writers on writing and a writer came to speak to a group of young writers the first writer who came was a poet. and i was i fell madly in love with language. i think that's why i'm probably conscious with the writing process because i began with the foundation of language, which is poetry for me. it made me aware of how to use language. not to over use language. you know things like that that aspects of it. i talk a lot about the writing process for a lot of reasons because i think that if you tell what it really means to be a writer people will think oh , it's not -- i think to a large extent you all think

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i thought it was very eloquent. short and simple and to the point and i think cain spent most of his time trying to clarify because the question originally was odd to begin with and i think he spent more time clarifying and gingrich summed it up. >> david, you're shaking your head. >> i thought newt when he said that -- we went through this with harry truman. he had hoility tests about the loyalty of the government of the united states and it was regarded as one of the worst blights of his administration. we look back upon that with regret about the excesses of that period. i'm amazed that people are talking about loyalty to us. >> cornell belcher. your thoughts? >> i agree. i think this does play -- he didn't stop digging. he actually dug himself a deeper hole. i'm not comfortable with him. it's a deeper hole. will this be a problem in the republican nomination battle? no. but for the larger audience of independents and moderates watching this, it's a problem for the republicans because none of the republicans answ

just a thought i mean the justification was we were fighting a brutal war of survival. but war with darker than any other war in the twentieth century indeed possibly in human history the role played by the civil union defacing is vastly underappreciated in the west why is that. when in part it's the legacy of the cold war that surprisingly history is not only written they say by the victors but our view of this part of our history and very strongly by the germans because the german view became incorporated into the historical free thinking in the. with the cold war so there was an underestimation or an unwillingness to recognize the soviet union into it fully and i think the cold war in part was the reason for thought but i think the other reason is the scale is so vast i mean we're talking about twenty seven million and times the civilian and military casualties as i think the other is is simply it's so big the people who struggle to really comprehend one of the things i wanted to add to my book is to make that story comprehensible account to give it a human voice so

stalin was not naive but he thought that germany would not attack in nine hundred forty one he thought the attack would come late and he believed that he could use this pact to develop the soviet union's and sphere of influence and at the same time. the radhasoami and transfer industry was beyond your own mountains but in fact he got it very very badly wrong and of course the red army was caught deeply unprepared in nine hundred forty one your book is about the sort of human story behind the how did it develop militarily during the cold. war the beginning in one nine hundred forty one the red army was hunted. by the autumn of one nine hundred forty one of the last between two and three million tons of killed in this thing and captured. i think few are in the world could do sustain that level of punishment and still carried on fighting and it was not from this high come on to believe at that point the soviet union. what was it that kept the red army fighting that's the sixty four thousand dollar question an extraordinary mix of. brutal leadership tough leadership from stalin but it was

so as an actor i guess i thought well, i could play her, and then i thought well, maybe there would beie of the week and i knew a little bit about her life ú&d since maybe from the time sort of she got sober to, that would be a good period of time, and i sort of thought that way, and i never did anything about it. and then one day i'm driving to work to two and a half men, and i'm, iim berating myself. i'm saying why. because i still had the thouggts about >> it's sticking. >> and i thought, why haven't you done something. >> yeah. one of your teeevision avenues? and it literally hit me like, i had to pull over because i, i thought, oh, it's ecause it's a play. she's live. it's on stage. aah, it was really like -hat. >> mmm-hmm.ú >> i pulled over. i was parked in the sort of a service road next to this kind of approach to the highway in gravel there, sitting and starring off of, an, or, an, or. you think i'm cartooning? and i sat there.as like. i don't think i shut my eyes. and tte ideas, not only to do it, but how to do ú&. the exact setting. >> yep.3 >> what, what would be the occasi

now, they thought that was an offensive joke.y thought that was offensive amos and andy brogue and their news guys would be fired if they did a voice like that, although, i did get into that story using a wheel with a dildo nailed it to, which i would imagine would likely get them fired, as well. [laughter] i just don't see them using a dildo wheel. the point is this: they felt i was singling out herman cain using offensive voice, not because i always use them, and i thought the three-page bill idea was silly, but because they suggested because herman cain is black and more importantly conservative. well, if my ridicule of silly things using bizarre caricature voices has given fox what appears to be several days of very strong programing -- [laughter] your cup about to runneth over, mother [bleeped]. grab a knife and fork, fox. because i have turned my crack research team on myself. and in a brand-new settingment called... [laughter] [cheering and applause] i thought we were going to run these titles by me? all right. well, anywa

it was someone sending a picture of a wiener on weiners account. >> thought it was hysterical. >> why? >> i know he's lying. it would be one thing if he came out and said, so what? but now you're saying you got hacked. there's so many other women out there. >> she says she came forward because of concerns for her image as an aspiring nurse and that of her 3-year-old daughter. according to broussard, a friend got her in touch with andrew breitbart who shared her identity with abc news. >> i choose to investigate it. it took us about four hours with an editorial team to finally realize we had the story -- the story down solid. >> is this about politics for you? >> no. >> do you dislike anthony weiner? >> no. >> do you think he's a bad guy? >> no, i don't think he's a bad guy. i just think he's got issues. >> today the congressman did something most people never have to do, he apologized in front of the national media, especially to the person he says he hurt the most, his wife, who's an aide to secretary hillary clinton. >> she made it very clear she thought it was very dumb and was not

"thoughts without cigarettes". [applause] >> thank you. >> we are thrilled to be here today. those of you who know oscar hijuelos know him best from one of his novels which won a pulitzer prize, the first for latino writer. he has had many milestones since then, has written the most beautiful fiction and now has written about himself in a nonfiction way. oscar hijuelos, thrilled that you are here. why now? why a memoir now? >> there is a short answer and a long answer. the long answer is in my first novel which was called our house in the last world, i talked about the influence on my life when i was coming up and call our house in the last world, that came down to this. i went through some difficulty as a child. i was separated from my family for a year because of illness and i went through a period wed having been interest in the culture and language i found myself suddenly immersed in american culture and language. as my mother would say i went into the hospital speaking spanish and came out speaking english and

and thought about it. i looked it up in the dictionary, "a meaningless word intensifier" is what it said. i talked to my grown son. i said, "i don't know what to do." and he said, "you are judy blume. "you stand for honesty and truth. how could you even consider changing it?" and so i didn't, and so we lost all the book club sales. and it was mentioned in reviews, in school journals so that teachers would know if they ordered this book there was a word in it. it just--it boggles the mind-- very expensive word. that this is where we are. this is a recent-- a more recently published book than some of the others. you know, another trend we hear of today that you didn't see early in your career is a concern, i think, about the occult, witches, the supernatural, and the backlash against harry potter. what do you make of that? any--any thoughts on that? well, i think it's-- there was a very interesting article, actually, in the horn book-- in the may/june edition of this year of horn book, in which a conservativ

i hadn't really thought of that because not being native i haven't thought about what if, what if, but i think that i had an advantage in a way of not being native because i would ask stupid questions. i mean, i was always very respectful, and i think people picked up on that. i wasn't trying to be dumb or talk about myself, but i found that sometimes the very fact i was nonnative, i asked questions about like the blueberry harvest, and also there seemed to be quite a wonderful propensity of native people to explain things to a non-native person, and in some groups this is called indians 101 because nay are so sick of talking to federal officials and other officials and so forth and explaning, okay, this happened, this happened. this one woman, the osage lawyer says we have to start at 1492 and bring them up to speed, and they are used to doing that. maybe in my case they told me more because they assumed correctly there was so much i didn't know. >> another question, if you can go to the microphone. yes, thanks. >> hi, i was just wondering with there being so many different indian tri

we offer your thoughts and prayers and we share in your pain. our thoughts are also with chief hays white as well as tom other conner, the head of our firefighter and to captain william all of the crew that engine company -- both serve z a-- served as brothers in their common goal in protecting the people of san francisco. today, we recognize the tremendous selflessness and devotion of all of our firefighters, and we are reminded that each time that we respond to a fire, they bravely march into the unknown and put their lives on the line for all of us. we are reminded that every time we hear the wail of a fire engine's siren, the brave men and women onboard are preparing to protect and serve us. as mayor of this great city, i want you to know that we recognize the great risk that you take in the line of duty and i want to express our cities -- city's i measurable gratitude for all that you do. these are the dark days for the city and we have experienced the great loss. when the healing begins and we start to move forward, we do so in honor of vi

and i thought, that's weird. there was a letter to it that sounded an awful lot like the rhetoric of my 17th century. so i spend a lot of time in the months after word watching the cultural sphere. i realized that many of the responses that i was hearing -- of course bush was talking about closing, a human embryo of schools themselves research, all of those issues surrounding genetic research and the fears that we will do something to the human species. i heard in the cultural sphere that same type of response. this is horrible and must be stopped. i also heard other people saying, particularly my science friends. we have been doing interspecies research for a very long time at different gradations, whether we are doing the grafting of pig heart valves, knockout mice, the mies actually have human diseases. all these different types of animals human experiments. then the fun part was looking at all of the fun people on the internet doing these wacky things. these are little bit creepy. pays nursing human babies. t

it was so funny when i thought about kids, i always thought that if i did trk i don't know where they came from but i never saw myself with the man or husband or whatever raising kids. >> i would also argue that it's a more tolerant country now. i mean, the body of americans are probably more tolerant now towards someone than 10, 15 years ago. >> i think they are moving in the right direction. definitely. and i think the president is doing a lot with the repeal of don't ask, don't tell. >> you came out with a statement in june that was delegated to gays and lesbians. that's something you couldn't imagine the president saying 10 or 20 years ago. when he went through his point by point guide of what he had achieved, what was your reaction? good or bad? >> well, it was good. june is pride month and we're going to recognize this and he made a dedication and it was like, hey, this is the direction that we're headed in and the part that struck me is where he said that, something about continuing to strive for justice and equality for all. to me i'm happy with that. >> where has he been perh

the billiard part of this center has been carefully thought through and thought out. we know there are problems on broadway. we have advised them to move forward with billiard academy that will be affiliated with the billiards congress of america. we have been in touch with teachers who are affiliated with that organization who will be instructors there. we are in total agreement with all of the conditions that the police department has set out. and i think that is about it. they have a very extensive background in restaurant management, have on the many restaurants in the past. -- have owned it many restaurants in the past. -- have owned many restaurants in the past. vice chair joseph: i am curious on the conditions. it says that you will have security from 9:32 closing. what made you choose 9:30 as a time? >> i think that was an arbitrary power that one of the neighborhood groups asked us to do. vice chair joseph: just curious. you talk about having cameras to monitor activities. what is a set? >> initially they were just going to put cameras on the broadway side, t

and i thought, boy, this is just my luck. here i've got this famous tony serra, he's renown, he's in the press all the time, he has had a movie made about him, and i bet he's an arrogant jerk, and i get him. first trial he's going to make me look really bad. and this poor d.a., we're just going to look terrible. well, lo and behold tony serra comes in. he's a wonderful gentleman. he's gracious. he knows i've never tried a case to a jury. he knows that the d.a. has tried two cases to a jury. he guided us through this trial. he put on a fabulous show, as is his want, which was instructional and very, very interesting. he never took advantage of my inexperience or the d.a.'s experience. and by the end of the day when that trial was over -- of course, he won. but nobody on that jury would have ever suspected that i had never tried a case to a jury or that the d.a. had not had any experience, virtually, either. so i have always wanted to thank tony serra for making me look really good my first jury trial. i had thanked him all my

any thoughts on that? >> well, yes, i have lots of thoughts on it. i went to harvard law school. and believe me, when i was there, there was no legal aid at all. everybody was become a corporate lawyer. there was no question about it. you didn't even think about it. it would never even dawn on anybody. i don't think that anybody knew that there were defense attorneys. you know? anyway, at its heart that little clip said something, i think, because kingsfield is actually violating the very stuff he's teaching. he's teaching contract law, which is all about reciprocity between people. and there are implicit promises when a law student comes into a classroom. you know? there are implicit promises about respect, about duties, about obligations. kingsfield is violating all of those. so he's not paying attention in the essence of his being to the most important thing that he's doing. does he know a lot of contract law? yes. he's a genius. does he understand the heart of contract law? no. he doesn't. you know? and in that same sense law school is violating the promises in a more general

thought did occur. i thought about my two kids, and i realized that at that point i didn't want to kill myself but i didn't know how to live either. you know, i didn't know how to handle all this. god gives you a lot, he takes away a lot, but i was like all at once? it was just too much to bear, and, you know, i got a phone call, and it kind of shook me out of my transor my sadness that i was in and thank god. i was able to go home and try to get a handle on things, but, yes, it really was difficult to get through. >> let's take another break. when we come back i want to talk to you about how you did manage to get back on your feet in a surprising manner. [ female announcer ] now at red lobster a complete four course seafood feast for $15. start with soup then have salad and biscuits followed by 1 of 7 delicious entrees and finish with something sweet all for just $15. right now at red lobster. all for just $15. ...was it something big? ...or something small? ...something old? ...or something new? ...or

i thought i wanted to be an architect. i love to designed saugatuck to the architect department and he laid out the courses and thank you very much, walked out and it never went back because i want to take my own course but the english literature some that wanted to do any way and taking other subjects if i had been an undergraduate it was all the way down and that was i didn't do that so if all i will be that leader. >> host: how did c-span: have did you get onto the lampoon? >> guest: you go out for the lampoon as an undergraduate, and the competition goes off a number of weeks and each week you write a short story or essay or in my case i wrote poetry. c-span: does it have to be funny? >> guest: yes. i was selected and then we had in which you are humiliated as a format war elevated. we were told we had to wear black eye patches and suit for a week which we did and you can see these people. then we had things like one of the so-called phools john not like was a man you had to go through this humiliating few days and pla

>> because he has been so enormously influential on african-american political thought. and on more generally speaking, discourse about public policy, about black identity, relating to a contemporary politics impose the importance of dubois? the turn of the century. >> what the book focuses on is what has his best known book, and that is most influential. but in many ways not well understood book. .. the influence idea that more than any other 20th-century african-american thinker dubois is five, you asked about it. he has cast a shadow over the other african americans the risk of but more generally beyond just the world of african-americans, but just a shadow over anyone who has thought about african-american identity. part of the idea's going back to the canine and engaging to block -- dubois political thought, if we arrive at some of the assumptions and our own thinking about many of these issues. >> in the west 113 years are so, what practical effect has dubois had? where is his lineage? >> of course he was one of the great inspiration's of the civilized movement. i

i hadn't really thought of that because not being native, i haven't thought, what if, what if? but i think i had an advantage in a way of not being native because i would ask stupid questions. i mean, i was always very respectful and i think people picked up on that. i wasn't trying to be dumb or talk about myself but i found that sometimes the -- just the very fact that i was nonnative made me ask questions, like about the blueberry festival, the blueberry harvest. and also, there seemed to be quite a propensity, a wonderful propensity among native people to explain things to a nonnative person. and in some groups this is called indians 101 because they are so sick of talking to federal officials and other officials and so forth and explaining. this one woman, this osage lawyer said we have to start at 1492 and we bring them up to speed. and they're used to doing that but i think in my case, they may have just told me more because they were assuming correctly that there was so much i didn't know. >> another question, if you could go to the microphone. yes. thanks. >> hi, i was

we thought we were over that hill. and, unfortunately, due to huge massive rain events in the last week, we realized that we were in for just an enormous-- something we could never prepare for, the water coming our way. >> warner: it has been reported that only one-tenth, i think of the people who lived in the valley, as described it, had federal flood insurance. why is that? >> fema in 2001 or 2000 i don't remember the exact year-- changed the flood plain here in minot so flood insurance was not required after that flood plain was changed. at that point, people probably felt secure that flooding wasn't a real possibility and it's been such a long time, and we've done-- we've had flood protections put in place since our last major flood so there was that security people were feeling, and like you said, probably less than 10% of the people have flood insurance here. >> warner: finally what, kind of help are you getting for either the federal government and also from surrounding communities in north dakota? >> i'll tell

thought did occur. i thought about my two kids, and i realized that at that point i didn't want to kill myself but i didn't know how to live either. you know, i didn't know how to handle all this. god gives you a lot, he takes away a lot, but i was like all at once? it was just too much to bear, and, you know, i got a phone call, and it kind of shook me out of my transor my sadness that i was in and thank god. i was able to go home and try to get a handle on things, but, yes, it really was difficult to get through. >> let's take another break. when we come back i want to talk to you about how you did manage to get back on your feet in a >>> back with linda hogan. linda, it's been at rough ride talking to you so far. the book does then take more surprising turns. first of all, another rough hit i think is when your daughter, brooke, calls you at 4:00 a.m., she's crying, and she tells you that one of her friends, christian, is now going out with terry, your recently departed husband. how did that make you

and acting out on them, whatever it might be, self-hatred or whatever i thought was to be the thought. suzy, martha and team of people i went to see, back on course, back on course. opened my eyes >> you personally, would you like to get married again? would you like to find a new mr. right in your life? >> i always say when you've had the best, forget the rest. andrew is the best, and i -- i don't think -- i don't think i'll get married again, but i think it's time to have a boyfriend. shall we use this as a date, cnn date night. >> if you don't mind me saying, pretty hot. >> thank, piers. >> good time to put yourself back on the market, duchess. >> come on, then: i don't think this show has ever been used for this before. jack welch, dating today, but, yeah, i don't think any man would come near me though, because as i've always said you've got to put up with a lot of press and attention. >> and i think they should. you're what we call a good

i thought what a wonderful place to set a book. the city is undiscovered and the people i met were extraordinary. i also knew about the murder case. gries took the liberty of putting the shooting in the middle of the books a you need to the characters before it happens to you are surprised about the shooting as a people in savannah but it is a portrait with a murder case thrown in with a lot of different stories and the trick was to make it sound like one. the title of the book is a savannah story and characters in the book, he appears in several others so that way reappearing characters have the tight knit community and the murder case is a continuing threat and there is one character who pops up regularly food makes funny jokes about me right team this movie. we will all be in it. so from the beginning to the end there is a real person commenting so well pulls together in a narrative about might experience and unusual things happen. >>c-span: one of the principal characters is dead. >> guest: he died january 1990. at first, he ca

tavis: do you have a thought on this? particularly after reading the book this time in wonder, are you more and planets -- and led more impressed with your transformation in life from banks or lifestyle, or the to made an anthem of cop killer to play a detective on television? how did you pull that off? what do cops say when they see you? >> i have had a lot of experience with that the cops. when i was breaking the law, i did not hate the cops. they were just the opponents. i thought that i could beat them. i have no hatred for cops. i have hatred for racist, brutal people. not necessarily the cops. when it was time for me to play cop, i was worried how my fans would take it. they knew me as the original gangster. after 12 years of open quote law and order," i have no problem with it. even in my role on "law and order," i am chasing child molesters and rapists. even criminals do not like them. tavis: with a song like cop killer, moving on to become a reported actor, i wonder if you have ever had to encounter an element of

and so she wouldn't have thought her life would end there.nd then she saw someone pushing a broom, another inmate. and this was scary for her because brooms can be used as weapons. and in cook county jails, we don't rehabilitate. it's just people waiting for trial. this is a holding cell, so people don't have jobs. we don't rehabilitate them, so there's no reason that child should have a broom but instead of doing anything, he came up to her, and i will turn this story over to jovan because i want to ask him something -- he came up to her, if you don't mind, if you move over, you'll be fine. they won't see you. you know, the guys. he told the guys to please back away and strangely they all followed his -- like right away followed his instructions. and so he and cathy started talking and i'm going to let jovan tell you how they met a little bit more. but what struck me is -- this is a woman who would take on his case, who would say you've been here for six years. you've been in this -- in that holding cell for six years? and this is a woman wh

i never thought i would be sitting here agreeing with every word john burris would say. [laughter] this is the first time i have had an opportunity to be with him. however, i do agree with him. it has to be enforced throughout the organization. what we expect up our people. what we want to ensure up our people, particularly the integrity and the values aspect. many of us, not many, but quite a few departments have of all you statement. ethics, integrity are part of those values. it is not just a document that is on a wall. it is something we have to believe that every level and in force at every level. in preparing for this, i found an absolutely wonderful article, "the truth about the police code of silence revealed." i really recommend that you take a look at that. i'm going to recommend most police chiefs take a look at this. there are profiles. he talks about the code of silence. that is about the fact that there is. how you prevent the code of silence? it is like how do you prevent crime? or how do you stop crime, let's put it that way. the best way to prevent these