he didn't want to fit in, tom wolf. >> i just found him so utterly sensible, it seemed.ly knowledgeable and i still always come back to why do you feel the need to wear the white suit? it certainly made him stand out, and we know some writers like to do that. >> mary, you became late in life or late in philip roth's life, a close friend of his and you went to the funeral. just tell me how you became such friends. >> i just want to say i'm the only person on the planet who can make friends with an 80-year-old with heart trouble and be so shocked when he died. he did have such a life force. very early when i met him almost three years ago he had a health crisis and i guess i just wound up spending a lot of time at the hospital. he didn't have a lot of family -- he didn't have any family. we just became close. he was somebody i saw -- i don't know, at least once a week, sometimes twice a week, and then i'd go to connecticut in the summer for a week at a time, and he was the most extraordinary company. i -- you got the feelings from philip that he saw you. it's something a l

earlier this year obituary writers around the world paid tribute to tom wolfe the american writer who passed away three months ago wolf was best known for his work as an author books like the wright stuff and bonfire of the vanities however in the one nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's he was also at the forefront of another movement what was called new journalism tom wolfe and others pioneered a new type of reporting boring some techniques from novelists and using them to write nonfiction to in fact produce journalism the initial reviews were not stellar especially from reporters who saw new journalism as an affront to their profession however it revolutionized reporting and its impact is felt to this day not just in the u.s. but around the world and not just in the mainstream news media but also online the listening post takes you back in time now to the one nine hundred sixty s. with the help of two contemporary writers whose journalism was inspired by tom wolfe and the new journalism movement. i have no idea who coined the term the new journalism or even when it was coined at the

earlier this year obituary writers around the world paid tribute to tom wolfe the american writer who passed away three months ago wolf was best known for his work as an author books like the wright stuff and bonfire of the vanities however in the one nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's he was also at the forefront of another movement what was called new journalism tom wolfe and others pioneered a new type of reporting boring some techniques from novelists and using them to write nonfiction to in fact produce journalism the initial reviews were not stellar especially from reporters who saw new journalism as an affront to their profession however it revolutionized reporting and its impact is felt to this day not just in the u.s. but around the world and not just in the mainstream news media but also online the listening post takes you back in time now to the one nine hundred sixty s. with the help of two contemporary writers whose journalism was inspired by tom wolfe and the new journalism movement. i have no idea who coined the term the new journalism or even when it was coined at the

you know, tom wolf once said, you can't go home again.his home for 5 1/2 years where they tortured him all the time and finally broke him. it was very jarring to go back. >> will you share a little bit about the lunch you have and how funny he was. >> a tremendous sense of humor, dry sense of humor that was burnished by his experiences over decades and decades, first in uniform, then later on on the hill. i said to him, i thought that he looked a lot like charlie chaplin. he said, you know, i think you're right, but i'm a lot funnier than he was. >> there you have it, john mccain, a man of humor and dignity. >> a real hero in everybody's eyes. >> thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> that is a wrap for me. i'm alex witt. at the top of the hour, it is politics nation with reverend al sharpton. ahead of that, "your business" is next. stay with us here on msnbc. nex. stay with us here on msnbc ♪ applebee's to go. order online and get $5 off $25. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. this is moving day with the best in-home wifi expe

from the nixon years to the pc battles of the early 21st centuries, remembering tom wolf and philip roth the people who knew them well. ♪ ♪ >>> good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour in london. the literary worlds

tom wolfe just died that we are blacklisted sets from sure. you all what you yourself into your country and to pay the price. as you say you not making as much money anymore. to build an empire of lives. then to pay the price. and only the truth will keep you free. this is what you have to do. thank you very much. the 17. [applause] i know that was just my bernie sanders invitation. medically our young people we are reaching the peak of our reproductive drive.e however in the culture of marriage the question that i have is how do you do in our marriage? [applause] >> i have been married 40 years. [applause] that my marriage is a miracle is not like other people's marriages. we had one fight 30 years ago and still chasing that woman around the room. i am crazy about her. i'm serious. if they had a i get a marriage like that? i say marry my wife. [laughter] you are a walking advertisement people sleep with each other right and left a say how do i get that? i'm not making that up. you cannot do that by condemning people or preaching people are no

woff.om became a ware ware wolf tom. but i did well at it and i finally started making my books into movies and went to hollywood. that's the same job. but after 9/11 happened the movie industry started to churn out these anti-war movies depicting our soldiers as rapists, killers, victims, manipulating their patriotism. not right. i were in the field. you not right. i don't care what your opinion is about the war but hollywood had never made anti-war films know? while our guys you don't make propaganda for the enemy while our guys are being shot at. so i started to write about that and i lost all my friends in hollywood but i started to make new conservative friends. finally, the earned who runs the reagan ranch asked me to give a speech like this one. i said sure. remember, identify been in a room thinking i have ware woves and i said what is young -- what do young college students want to hear about? i was a college student. i studied the culture. i studied i studied it deeply wrote this intricate speech about how the

frederick hart had a great booster in tom wolfe. but maya lin had a tremendous cadre of boosters who felt strongly that her work of art should not be violated by this intrusion. >> it was red state versus blue state. ladies and gentlemen, i'm sure someone would like to add something to our discussion. you're first. there is a microphone. gentleman right there in the white shirt. >> john mcauliffe. i'm with an ngo called the fund for reconciliation and development. congratulations, what you did is phenomenal. i'm also with a group called the vietnam peace commemoration committee, which is anti-war folks trying to lift up the memory of the anti-war movement. there is a comment or question about what is not in the memorial, and it is no way negative about it but it has come up in discussions. those 58,000 were not the last of the american casualties. there are the people who then died from ptsd-related psychological issues, suicides, agent orange, that ultimately led to their deaths. there's also the americans who protested the war, th

tom wolfe just died unfortunately. we have great culture makers but we are black listed and there is something inherent in the conservative philosophy that keeps us from making culture. if you're going to live in a leftist culture you oh it to yourself and your country to tell the truth. that means to pay the price. i made a lot of money in hollywood. i don't anymore. i have not lost a minute of sleep about it. my life -- my wife has never said you're not making as much money anymore, why? the left has dealt with their academies, with their news organizations, with hollywood, and empire of lies and the only way to live in it empire of lies is to tell the truth and pay the price. that is the bad advice going to give to you. jesus said the truth will set you free. i'm going to tell you also only the truth will keep you free. that is my charge to you. that is what you're going to have to do. thank you very much. i know that was just for my bernie sanders imitation. >> this is an interesting crowd. we are young people. we

the late tom wolf who wrote the famous book "the right stuff" about the mercury astronauts was looking, what is that quality of the right stuff in a certain particular military person going to space back in the early '60s. the right stuff is john mccain. he had it all, duty, honor, country, the patriotism, his idealism and belief in the love of this country and that theodore roosevelt sense of the great american outdoors. senator mccain's love of the grand canyon and hiking and where he passed in sedona, that beautiful part of the country, that landscape was part of him. too, he always was a man of the west. >> and, mark, when you signed up to help john mccain run for president in 2007-2008 there was a caveat with your service, you told him that if he won the nomination and barack obama won the nomination, you didn't want to work against barack obama. ultimately both men won the nomination, you said you didn't want to be the tip of the spear attacking obama. what happened when you went to mccain and said, okay, i've got to go? >> well, it was an unusual arrangement. senator mccain aske

. >> by the way, the russians are going to help me with tom wolf. if i have to use paul manafort, i will. >> obviously a joke there from wagner. >> right. >> his campaign is out with a statement. we'll put it on the screen here. saying, scott was obviously joking. he thinks russia's interference in the 2016 election was real, and he pledges to work with the federal government to secure fair elections in pennsylvania as governor. >> that is the damage control statement. it is a damage control statement because it is not a joking matter. it is very serious. it was very serious in 2016. it is clearly going to be very serious in 2018. >> okay. betty, final thoughts? >> remember, he's not the only high-profile republican to joke about this. when jeff sessions gave a speech at the mayflower hotel a couple months ago, he opened up by saying, are there any russians in the audience? anyone who has been to russia? >> which was a question of whether it was a joke or not, the comment president trump made. >> it is fair. there was a sense the russia story is a s

greatest writers alive at this moment are conservatives, tom stoppard in england, we have great, tom wolf just died unfortunately but still, we have great culture makers but we are blacklisted and there is something inherent in the conservative philosophy that keeps us from making culture. if you're going to live in a leftist culture, you owe it to yourself and to your country to tell the truth. that means to pay the price. i made a lot of money in hollywood. i don't make a lot of money in hollywood anymore. i have not lost in minutes of sleep. my wife is never said to me or not make as much money anymore. why? because the left has built with their power, with their academies, with their news organizations, with hollywood they have built an empire of lies and the only way to live in empire of lies is to tell the truth and pay the price. that is that that advice am going to give to you. because jesus said the truth will set you free. but i'm going to tell you also that only the truth will keep you free. and that's my charge to you and that is what you're going to have to do. thank you very

pennsylvania governor tom wolf has activated the state's emergency response coordination center and has put the national guard on notice to be ready to rescue anybody who gets into trouble because of these floods. powerful floodwaters rushed through the streets of benton, pennsylvania. while rescue crews made the rounds in boats bringing stranded people to safety. >> our dogs are trapped. everybody's in canoes. trying to save people. >> reporter: outside philadelphia, in chester county, rescue crews used a boat and rope to save a 12-year-old boy stranded in the middle of the swollen stream. flooding shut down numerous roads including a major highway. the school schuylkil expressway waslosed inot directions. at the mall, the rising water forced dozens of stores to close. this is what nearly 8 inches of rain in just a few hours looked like. >> this is our family room. our living room. as you can see, everything is under water. >> reporter: in new jersey, the floodwaters filled the inside of homes. brick police declared a state of emergency and more than 100 people were rescued. in potsvil

he tells tom that the wolfe's never did any of the children any opportunities in life. he tells tom that your parents will tell you they have no money, but ben reassures tom and says look, they aplenty. he said if they're willing to give an education, don't worry, that the rest of us never got a chance. he said, tom, get as much out of these thrifty people as you possibly can. teacher education and get away from this house as quickly as possible. an october of 1918, we see that thomas wolfe succeed in getting away from this house and his tumultuous family. he is at college, thriving at chapel hill writing for the student magazine, joining fraternities. he gets a telegram to come home. ben has pneumonia and yes no idea that is about to come back to this room and watch ben die. ben that contracted the spanish influenza, a flu pandemic that swept the world and killed millions and a virus that doesn't just take the young and elderly. it takes guys like ben, he is 25. thomas wolfe wrote that he didn't understand, ben was the sort of guy who deserve the best in life and he was

tom price. here's actually wolf blitzer asking collins last year if he ever encouraged price to buy stocks in this company. listen. >> did you encourage him to buy stock in this company called innate immuno therapeutics? >> no, absolutely not. there was nothing done that was insider trading or unethical. i've been involved with innate immuno therapeutics in new zealand and australia for almost 15 years. i am the largest shareholder and i talk about it all the time, just like you would talk about your children. we are bringing to market at some point the only drug that could treat secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, the most debilitating disease there is with no treatment today. it is probably what i am most proud of. i talk about it at breakfast, lunch and dinner, like i do my kids and my wife. so certainly many folks i've talked about it. >> now the u.s. attorney's office for the southern district will be holding a press conference here in new york in just about an hour to discuss these charges and we have heard from collins' attorney this morning. here's that statement. it says, we will an

and next week, we have new shows with jeff daniels, tracee ellis ross, tom arnold, don cheadle, wolf sandra lee will be here. you watch that, guillermo? >> guillermo: no, i don't watch that. >> jimmy: it's self-explanatory. jerrod carmichael and zoe kravitz, with music from chvrches, charlie puth, death cab for cutie and blood orange featuring asap rocky. so please join us for all that. you're invited to be a part of it. of our first guest is one of the most talented men in the world. he is a multi-award-winning recording artist, fashion designer and shoe salesman. his new album is called "ye." please welcome kanye west. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ how's everything? good? >> good, good. >> jimmy: first of all, thanks for being here and thank you for the shoes. nobody ever brings me shoes, you brought me shoes, that's very nice of you, very kind. and i'll tell you a story, and this is honestly true. the last time, a few years ago you sent me a pair of yeezys. i have never in my life had more people come up and talk to me than when i was walking around in them to the point where i was li

to myself who will know when i'm a minute tom de lay i was all over livin one wolf i sure don't belong to a million wanted to knuckle down to. i woke up at four o'clock in the morning and i couldn't sleep because i have this big bed partly because of. the school because i you know last year i made a huge debt to supply all the kids with. bills for school notebooks and. hens and little blackboards and i paid their school insurance and i still have debts from that i never made any money from since then to pay back those debts and my debts keep creeping up because you know every day i have to get things from the mauritanian shop and it was a period. for like two months when i didn't make there wasn't even i didn't even make you know a dollar to know tourists or the tourist that came they didn't stop by us i couldn't sell a single cd nothing you know we're going to go back and i'm going to have very little. you know very little cash and then i'm going to have these people coming bothering me thinking i'm like all you know you know i hate when i say look i don't laugh you know they think of

reporter: collins already under investigation for promoting innate, denying to wolf blitzer he encouraged former secretary tom purchase its stock. >> did you encourage him to buy stock in this company called innate immu no therapeutics? >> absolutely not. it was not insider trading or unethical. >> we know in western new york know that donald trump is not merely a candidate. donald trump is a movement. >> reporter: collins was the first congressman to endorse the president and has been active in the presidency. >> this is really our trump caucus. reconvening. >> reporter: now the buffalo area congressman is up against serious charges from the top new york city federal prosecutor who is interviewed by the president himself and ultimately appointed by attorney general jeff sessions. >> the charges today demonstrate once again that no matter what the crime and no matter who committed it, we stand committed in the pursuit of justice without fear or favor. >> in court today, congressman collins and son and they all pleaded not guilty and each posted half a million dollars bond, also surrendered the passports. cong

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we talk that now, 32 advisors ceo robert wolf with us here in new york. conservative review tom borelli as well, american university executive in residence, capri kfar yo. i will start with you. you're not lucky to sitting with us here in new york so you can bat lead off. a lot of people make what they make of the president's approval ratings, but doesn't seem like last week's news, important as it was, momentum it samed at time, didn't move the needle numbers wise. what do you think of that? >> a number of americans, particularly trump supporters, americans at large basically, and a lot of people say this, the concept any of the more controversial aspects of president trump's life have essentially been baked in. even though these are big developments they're not necessarily earth shattering there is this assumption about president trump's past and it is not going to phase the american elector are the. you can find polls to basically say anything. connell: yeah. >> including the associated press poll recently came out saying 60% of americans think we're going in the wrong direct

wolfe. i mean the list goes on and on and on. what is very clear to me, tom that the congress of the united states, the leadership of both the house and the senate aren't really interested in helping donald j. trump out here. and it's now up to donald j. trump as president of the united states to clear the deck. because this is a clear existential threat to his presidency. >> you know, when you see the reaction to the strzok firing today, i don't see others -- feigningly i'm sure you agree here, lou, is that the strzok firing is as much about the mueller operation as anything else. yet members of congress refuse to confront the implications of the mueller investigation. there would be no mueller investigation to investigate so-called collusion but for the imaginations of strzok and his colleagues at the top levels of the fbi. and we know this guy was corrupt. we know he had anti-trump -- lou: have you seen the defense of strzok on the part of cnn, on the part of other left-wing members of the national media? i mean it's extraordinary, saying he's just simply

july of the man on the right tom spin bowler helping himself to a six a twenty nine as the host completed emphatic victory with earth one the fairy three take. at it with wolf and i want to thank you tatiana well in mexico city is one of the most congested cities in the world with huge traffic jams a regular part of people's commute but now motorists are being treated to an unexpected surprise when they hit the red lights john heilemann reports from mexico city. light turns red image to city and something extraordinary. this is the idea of but then tear about a company working with the big screw city government to take to the masses this traffic choked city here. ok ok so now said the specs here is the satisfaction for every ballerina to dance on the stage to reach all kinds of different people and see their reactions much closer than just from an assigned seat watching you from every side. motorists and pedestrians you catch the performance earl italy and all. of everything makes you think oh i never seen something like that here that belongs in a theater and to see it in the street you just say. wow. it reminds us what we really are because sometimes the

wolf packs and the destroyers. it is from a book by c.s. forester called "the good shepherd." tom loves the book and he wrote the script and we did it down in baton rouge, shot aboard the uss kidd down there and recreated the kidd on the inside of a sound stage, put it on a gimbel so it would rock and roll. i think it will be a great film. the navy, frankly, needs a shot in the arm at this point. that will come out in, i think, april of 2019. i have worked for tom while he's directing though. we did a film called "larry crown" in which he hired me to play his boss and i fire him for incompetence or something, i forget what it is. but he is an actor's director because he is an actor, and he tends to use the script as a structure and then let the actors sort of flesh it out and make it come alive, and that's really great if you are an actor and you have a director that allows you that latitude. steven is more structured in his approach, less actor-oriented and more story-oriented, but they're both great directors. >> a couple more. would you ever be interested in making an american