that was when mark twain was able to tell him, probably, i -- that was when mark twain was , i havetell him proudly presold 100,000 copies, and i have not canvassed two thirds of going tory.so brand-new at leat his grave that he had taken care of his family and succeeded -- so grant knew at least going to his grave that he had taken care of his family and succeeded. by the time he reached the cottage, mark twain believed that the second volume of his book, of his memoirs was complete. grant was a perfectionist, he still had writing in him. as long as he was alive he would keep writing. he wrote at least another chapter. it was a struggle right to the very end, but he kept on it. he wanted the book to be as good as possible. no matter what his physical condition, he tried to work on the memoirs. some days he could not get out of bed, physically. other days he would write 40 pages. to give you an idea of this scope -- the memoirs would eventually be 1200 pages, 300,000 words. this is a major project for someone who would have been an expert writer, but to have somebody that is struggling

twain was checking on the progress of the book. grant one of to find out how well the book was selling. he wanted to find out if it was a success. that was when twain told him probably, i have presold 100,000 copies, and i have not canvassed two thirds of the country. going to his least grave that he had taken care of his family and succeeded. by the time he reached the cottage, mark twain believed that the second volume of his book, of his memoirs was complete. grant was a perfectionist, he still had writing in him. as long as he was alive he would keep writing. he wrote at least another chapter. it was a struggle right to the very end, but he kept on it. he wanted the book to be as good as possible. no matter what his physical condition, he tried to work on in the mars. -- work on the memoirs. sundays he could not get out of bed, physically. -- some days he cannot get out of bed, physically. other days he would write 40 pages. to give you an idea of this scope -- the memoirs would eventually be 1200 pages, three and a thousand wo

and so grant eventually did go with twain's offer. it was impossible to refuse. mark twained had his nephew-in-law running his publishing firm called charles webster. that was the name of his nephew, so it was called charles webster and company. him and charles webster were, came up with a plan to sell the memoirs door to door instead of selling them in bookstores. so they would arrive and take pre-orders from folks door to door. now, one of the things that mark twain wanted to do was provide an opportunity for civil war veterans to be salesmen. so he would actually request that civil war veterans to even done their uniforms or their grand army of the remix uniforms to go -- republic uniforms to go door the door. grant himself was a focus of his time. he was a celebrity, so, you know, having him writing the book was good for sales but, obviously, having a civil war veteran come up to the door as well helped, you know, to sell them as well. so they -- it was door-to-door sales, and there was many, many thousands of salesmen engaged in this all across the country.

mark twain once said there's no such thing as a new idea.t pop culture, that seems true. >> i love that we're quoting mark twain. >> culture. >> music and fashion are giving nods to the past. and in hollywood, the throwback reigns supreme. >> reporter: the dialest and shows you loved once are making a come back in 2017. the throwback so good changing the channel is like stepping back in time. >> they said this would never happen. >> reporter: millennial favorites like "the magic school bus" and "duck tales" are back in american homes again. >> right now sweet remote and we're going to watch '90s shows. >> reporter: and the four friends who redefined the modern family -- >> some people are so excited for it to come back. >> reporter: are back and taking on politics in prime time. >> don't you know that donnie is one of my oldest friends? i helped him pick out melania. >> reporter: "baywatch" rebooted for the big screen. >> you see it, too? >> reporter: proving that this tank is timeless. and the '80s thriller "it" is scarier than ever and sma

that is when twain told him, i have already presold 100,000 copies. and i have not even canvassed two thirds of the country. grave he going to his had taken care of his family, that he had succeeded. by the time he reached the theage, mark twain believed second volume of his book, of his memoirs was completed. grant was a perfectionist. him, as had writing and long as he was alive, he was going to keep writing. he wrote at least another chapter to his book. it was a struggle right to the very end. he kept on it. he wanted the book to be as good as possible. no matter what his physical condition, he always tried to work on the memoirs. some days he could not get out of bed. physically. on it,ays, he worked wrote 32 40 pages in one single day. to give you an idea of the scope of this project, they memoirs would eventually beat of hundred pages, almost 300,000 words. this was a major project for someone who would have been a good condition. but to have somebody who was struggling with cancer, this was an incredibly important effort for the sake of his fa

there's much better stuff from mark twain.laughter] but at the end of the period, mark twain wrote, quote: there is no distinctly native american criminal class except congress. [laughter] he would add that the political and commercial morals of the united states are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet. but twain is in part unfair, because by the 1880s and 1890s, reformers were actually taking over the legislature. they were actually taking over congress. they not only dominated the third parties -- greenbackers and the populists -- but they were powerful factions in both the republican and the democratic party. the result is going to be tremendous social conflict but also this powerful reform movement. anti-monopolist parties. the knights of labor, farmers' alliance, the women's christian temperates union. it's going to be a period where, in fact, great wealth is seen as resulting only through government favors. how do they explain the rise of great fortunes in the 19th century united states? they say it

even if he didn't say it, it has a ring of twain. >> he deserves it.if you think about mark twain, someone in the news at the moment because of the recent book, he is friends with president grant. there is an element in which we are not saying what happened then is what is happening now but we are looking for residents and coming back to the point, ultimately this is why the footnote is boring as it sounds is so important to the kind of things we are writing because you can read schlesinger, one hell of a gamble and if you don't agree with something you can go to the footnote, if you think that doesn't sound right to me, you can go in my case to the new york public library and find the document and say he got this wrong, he misunderstood this. .. >> are there any other questions? oh, there's another one. >> i didn't realize that you had run the nixon library. so since the question is we're supposed to hearn from history -- [laughter] what can we learn? [laughter] >> oh. >> speaking -- because it's true, i mean, our parents told us this, hearn from your

when shania twain came out i was just obsessed with her.ave a little fun ♪ ♪ oh, oh, oh, totally crazy >> in all fields in our society now women, i wouldn't say dominating. i think that they're just rising to their true place. ♪ i feel like a woman [ cheers ] >> as things wore on it became a great decade to be a girl. ♪ >> after years of singing backup for such stars as michael jackson and rod stewart, she exploded onto the music scene in 1993 with her album "tuesday night music club." ♪ all i wanna do is have some fun ♪ ♪ i've got a feeling i'm not the only one ♪ >> radio has been so long in coming playing female artists. so it's definitely a different sort of environment and attitude now. ♪ if it makes you happy >> female artists like sheryl crow or liz phair, even though they had success they were still routinely marginalized within every aspect of the industry. there was not a lot of space in pop culture for a young woman's thoughts, feelings, voices, to be respected or taken seriously. ♪ i'm just a girl >> there was such a strange dich

and the mark twain first japanese delegation to the u.s. in 1860. >> i represent the partnership that owns this wonderful asset and today you will hear a lot about its rich history. >> hello, welcome to the willard hotel, located two blocks away from the white house. it is conveniently located near iconic monuments on the national mall. we are very fortunate to have this location. we give our thanks to captain john taylor, who was reputed to be one of virginia's wealthiest plantation owners. he was a friend and supporter of george washington. in 1860, he built the two-story dwelling. you might wonder if this was a good investment for him, because the city of washington was not a city at all. it was more of a town. it was akin to a swap. was a river ofit mud and filth. when it was dry, debris from construction building the president's mansion was everywhere. tourists and people coming to the city found sparse accommodations. >> as washington, d.c. grew as the capital, so did the willard hotel. everything happened within 10 blocks of the whit

when shania twain came out i was just obsessed with her.ve to have a little fun ♪ ♪ oh, oh, oh, totally crazy >> in all fields in our society now women, i wouldn't say dominating. i think that they're just rising to their true place. ♪ i feel like a woman [ cheers ] >> as things wore on it became a great decade to be a girl. ♪ >> after years of singing backup for such stars as michael jackson and rod stewart, she exploded onto the music scene in 1993 with her album "tuesday night music club." ♪ all i wanna do is have some fun ♪ ♪ i've got a feeling i'm not the only one ♪ >> radio has been so long in coming playing female artists. so it's definitely a different sort of environment and attitude now. ♪ if it makes you happy >> female artists like sheryl crow or liz phair, even though they had success they were still routinely marginalized within every aspect of the industry. there was not a lot of space in pop culture for a young woman's thoughts, feelings, voices, to be respected or taken seriously. ♪ i'm just a girl >> there was such a stran

included abraham lincoln, mark twain, world war ii soldiers, and i represent the partnership that owns this access and today you will hear a lot about its rich history. hello, welcome to the willard hotel, located two blocks away from the white house. we are very fortunate to have this location. we give our thanks to captain john taylor, who was reputed to be one of for genia's wealthiest plantation owners. ofwas a friend and supporter george washington. in 1860, he built the two-story dwelling. washington at the time was not really a city, more of a town. on a rainy day, some avenues were rivers. debris fromdry, construction building the president's mansion was everywhere. sts and and --touri people coming to the town found sparse accommodations. as washington, d.c. grew as the capital, so did the willard hotel. everything happened within 10 blocks of the white house. if you walked out the front door , exactly one mile from here is the capital, just on the other side is the treasury building and the white house. you can understand how people built their homes and the center of washing

twain came to the cottage of few weeks before grant passed away and it was important meeting.pain was checking on the progress of the book but the grant will support things was to find out how well it was selling. he knew time was short and wanted to find out if the book could be a success and that was when the train was able to tell them probably i have already presold 100,000 copies and i haven't even canvassed two thirds of the country. grant knew at least going to his grave that he had taken care of his family and that he had succeeded in by the time he reached the cottage mark twain believed that the second volume of his book of memoirs was completed but grant was a perfectionist and he still had writing in him and as long as he was alive he would keep writing. he did. he wrote at least another chapter to his book and it was a struggle right to the very end but he kept on it and he wanted the book to be as good as possible and no matter his physical condition he always try to work on the memoirs. some days he couldn't get out of bed physically. other days he worked on it

the writer mark twain helped him campaign for president.ecial commission was appointed to figure out who actually won. he was our 19th president, rutherford b. hayes. and he left behind a controversy. hayes agreed to pull federal troops out of the south. they had been there since the civil war, protecting the rights of african americans who were now no longer slaves. by removing those troops, critics say hayes set back civil rights in the south many, many years. with guess the president, i'm luke. - coming up, how yoga can help you deal with those difficult relationships. teen kids news will be right back. let's face it, relationships can be stressful. trying to please your parents, teachers, friends, even the other kids at school, takes a lot of work. and sometimes a lot of worry. dealing with the expectations of others while staying true to yourself is a high-wire balancing act. fortunately, there are ways to handle all that stress. emily has this week's yoga & you report. (relaxing music) - access your inner power is a book on yoga and i

twain. zuckerberg. what do they have in common? hear our theory of creativity. >> i'm soledad o'brien. welcom to matter of fact. a pressure packed december on capitol hill. the republican congress, pushing tax reform. driving toward a deal with democrats to prevent a government shutdown. hammered by requests for more disaster relief funding. add to it, allegations of sexual misconduct piling up against the politically po. and revelations that congress quietly paid out millions frome harassment settlements. several foreman staffers have a accused veteran congressman john conyers of making unwanted sexual advances. a report said he made a female aid $27,000 to settle a complaint. the complaint the office of compliance. that to the tune of 17 point 2 mi dollars -- over the last 20 melanie sloan, is an ethics lawyer, who worked with conyers on the house judiciary committee in the 19-90s. laac being "increasingly abusive" to her, behavior she says wasn't "sexual harassment" but was she joins us now. nice to have you. thanks f -- bringin

i think that's right that as always, even if you didn't say it, it has a ring of twain about it. he deserved it. and if youthink about kind of mark twain , someone who read much is in the news at the moment because of the most recent book that he was friends with grant, president grant and there's an element in which yes, we're not saying that what happened then is what's happening now but where seeking for residents and coming back to his point, ultimately this is why the footnote, as boring as it sounds, is so important to the things that we are writing. because you can read schlesinger, you can read one hell of a gamble and if you don't agree with something you can go to the footnote. if you think that doesn't sound right, you can go in my case to the new york public library, find the document yourself and say no, he's misunderstood this . that's why we don't just have one book on kennedy. somebody else will come along, hopefully not too soon but somebody will come along and write another book about arthur schlesinger because there's always more to be said each generation and

. >> reporter: as mark twain put it, history doesn't repeat but it often rhymes. that's certainly true of the nasdaq, the only major index up 9%, the longest win streak since the big tech breakouts of the 1990s. as then, it's the mega cap tech stocks that are responsible. amazon, apple, microsoft and facebook bigg lift to the overall market and the s&p 500. when you add in alphabet, they accounted for two-thirds of the 1500-point gain in 2017. here is the rhyme part. microsoft, a tech heavyweight back in the '90s, benefiting from its shift to cloud techno here over the last few years, up for six straight years, seeing its best annual win streak since the launch of windows back in 1995. consumer names were the biggest laggards of 2017. many like dish took a hit in the third quarter due to hurricanes. auto parts retailer o'reilly automotive which had ridden the rally to historic highs, down for the firs in eight years. beauty, which had seen consistently all-time highs for the last three years, snapping a three-year bull run. but like a lot of retailers, bo o'reilly

guests have included abraham lincoln, mark twain, world war ii soldiers and at the first japanese delegation to the united states in 1860. >> welcome to the willard. it is located two blocks away from the white house. marie: hello, welcome. the willard is covalently located in the city, near iconic , and memorials on the national mall. we are very fortunate to have this location. we give our thanks to captain john taylor, who was reputed to be one of virginia's wealthiest plantation owners. he was a friend and supporter of general washington. captain taylor acquired the land avenue4 pennsylvania in 1816. he built the two-story dwelling. you might wonder if that was a good investment for him. washington dc at the time was not really a city, more of a town. on a rainy day, some avenues where rivers of mud and felt, and when it was dry debris from construction building the president's mansion was everywhere. tourists and people coming to the city found hotel accommodations very sparse, and if you did find it was communal living. jim: hello, i am the bartender at the round robin bar at the histo

even mark twain says said it would be hard indeed to better president arthur's administration. if arthur was so great, why has everybody, nearly everybody, forgotten about him? i've already allude today two reasons the first is he burned his papers, which creates a real challenge for historians. and he served during an era that is foggy in the minds of most americans. also was very suspicious of the press, not surprisingly, given the way they treated him as gar feel was on his death bed. and he did very little to cultivate the reporters who covered him. nevertheless i believe that arthur and his story are an important part of american history. i wouldn't have spent four years researching and writing this book if i didn't think so. i also think that even though he happened to be president of the united states, a lot 0 about his story is really timeless and universal and applies to just about anybody etch. he certainly wasn't the first mant and won't be the last and has not been at the last to make moral compromises in a bid for wealth and power. the tension between ethics ethic

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mark twain's. what politicians do sometimes. they put themselves on the line and they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be present and you. know some want to listen. to the right person this is what the muslim three of them or people that. i'm interested in the ones in the. west. palestine is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos. this should leave you if you believe this is my complicity is going to sell you know maybe if you do. you go over there you should be the only palestinians who gets the most hope from its jerusalem counterparts i do things is of those who in the world under the old vision they're going to do this. and that is unfair that is different to this lady of the muscle that you have i don't want you to continue me doesn't seem to do more in the middle so last don't presume. that. when nato led by expert interventionist barack obama and hillary clinton lead the humanitarian mission to assist the arab spring movement two thousand and eleven libya was s

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those who hung with different crowds, you have your friends, and i have my friends, and never the twainell meet, are not as happy. the study also found that having shared media experiences, like books, movies, tv shows, predicted stronger relationship as well. you like to watch movies together. you share -- >> a common interest, makes sense, common interest, a people. just one other thing to say about there is the people they studied were college student, or college age. so at that point your friends would overlap. then huge problem, when you break up, because then you not only break up with your boyfriend partner and girlfriend, you lose all of your friends, as women, and everyone picking sides and it is a disaster. so, i think as you evolve and grow up, you can also have your separate friends at work and your life and different things. brian and have i very separate friends. i think that's a good thing, we don't have to do everything together. but it is nice, that common interest. this i think is a problem. we don't have any common friends. she has all her friends, i have my friends. w

mark twain publishes a book called innocents abroad. on one page he sources says fras established the paragon of civilization and a couple pages anter after watching a can-c he says the french have a trifling idea of morality. the american soldiers are also exhibiting this weird idea. one of the things the doughboys talk about before they leave and once they get there is the presence of wild women. all soldiers love wild women, because we know what goes along with that. hamrick is a dirt farmer from folding county, georgia. i'm from georgia. at this time a red dirt farmer is pretty low. togethers to scrape education to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. even he has this idea that france is both attractive and repulsive. for these guys, they start to create a romantic vision of france. once the war starts, american sympathies are almost always with the french. the french have been violated, the french have been invaded, they are the victims of german aggression. american soldiers -- i have read a number of letters and diaries have this sor

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come on we have shania twain, as we say good morning, and sue's anniversary 20 years at fox 29.hat is your traffic jam to get you bouncing around the kitchen. we will work up a forecast when we come back. >>> we now know, what went wrong in the massive deadly fire in the senior center in chester county that claimed four lives. >>> and, a fireball flash, make a wish there is a shooting star shoot ago cross our sky, good luck, i think on this good friday. >>> oh, snow, we have got this just in a winter weather advisory breaking news right now, it will look like a white christmas season that makes us feel the season. tgif it is friday, thomas drayton's off, i'm here with sue serio celebrating 20 years , bob kelly good morning to you both. >> anniversary girl. >> amazing. >> miacle of broadcasting. >> what do you mean miracle. it is a miracle. >> jobs don't tend to last real long at times and i'm grateful i have been able to stay here all this time. my daughter called me at 1:00 in the morning. she said happy anniversary, mom. she was a baby, and now grown up everybody watched her g

the famous quote from mark twain analyzes to statistics.u have the partisan pathways for republican democrat and you vote for my act or my bill and i will vote for yours. the last one the most effective for problematic ways of passing policy is the symbolic pathway. it's taking the case for an example or an anecdote in getting people's emotions invested in and say support this. look at these poor children that were trafficked on backpage. why do we support them and that's what they used to affect policy but they have no idea what the collateral consequences are. they want to do something that makes them look good and that gets passed in pixley with bipartisan support. if they have collateral a lot of them don't think that far in advance. i take quotes from a web site that is based out of the country and they are hoping backpage closes because they have said they will not corporate with law enforcement that they will absorb the traffic of women and children. they are not going to tell anybody about it. hope that answers your question and i h

i believe in rigorous scholarship but i don't believe scholarship and activism, never the twain shall meet a certain forms of german academic tradition insist upon and other traditions insist upon in this country. rather i think activism gives purpose to scholarship and scholarship can do depth to activism. they feed each other and the richer force for it and i do believe the witnessing professional must combine them in her or his efforts in relation to climate change. >> host: one of the professions, their job to witness is journalism and a few months ago new york magazine ran a cover article by david wallace, the uninhabitable earth, economic collapse, a son that cooks us, climate change could wreak sooner than you think and presented an apocalyptic view of the future and led to a lot of controversy. most people thought it was mostly scientifically accurate, if units you can pick that led to a lot of controversy about whether such a stark picture of a possible future apocalypse is a positive step in positive movement or paralyzes people. >> we struggle with the same kind of issue in

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maybe dickens, mark twain. dickens or mark twain for dinner.l i've read so much about and he is so, he spent so calm over that if you like i might get a lot more out of dickens because it would be fresher. >> host: we will go to stephen in decatur illinois. go ahead. >> caller: good day to you. i have a shorter thinking spend some listening to you because i've seen your pursuit of the truth and i heard you earlier that while you write, edit think i heard you write because you have that, the truth is like gold. it doesn't run in a straight line. it weaves. when you find it, you don't have to let people know. you're a writer and i'm not a writer. so you discover the truth and you know the difference between fools gold, true constructed or your assumptions than the actual truth. i find you -- you have the truth seeker,. >> guest: you should see my colored contact lenses. it is true what you say that when you find, , seems like an interesting truth. it is really energizing as a writer. however, enough by nature, maybe i'm just proving this this thr

after all, mark twain also lived here. >> how did you see her sense of humor. >> she was very goofy. always happy. always trying to have fun. she was sar castic. witty. >> what did you think when you heard that. >> i was sad, but i was sad and i was like oh miff god, go. you're so brave. do it now. you're so brave. do it now. >> did you see her off. >> absolutely. she parked at her mom's house and i remember running down the street. >> did you have parting words or advice for her when she left. >> i have a photo of husband hugging. it's such a sad photo for me. the saddest day of my life. >> kelly came home to visit often enough including christmas of 2003. by then, there was a new attraction, a minor league hockey team. >> my mom, and ster ani were at a hockey game and this player gets checked io the boar and his helmet comes off and all three of us were like wow, he's pretty cute. kelly's mom, we general joyed watching the game. he was fun. >> he was tom clayton, served as the instigator. the guy who starts fight, but he and kelly locked eyes, it was game over. >> she met him that

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liz: apologies to mark twain rumors of brick-and-mortar's death have been greatly exaggerated so that'shat retail chains would like you to believe but can they prove it? the next 60 hours will be a crucial chance for them to do it but things are looking decent here the commerce department reports consumer spending was up six-tenths of aer sent from october. healthy and decent but what are people shopping for right now and can we then triangulate as to which stocks are going to do well? jeff flock is at the woodfield mall in schaumburg, illinois and keith her doing is here to tell us what you may want to add to your shopping bag this christmas. jeff what does it look like there whose got the crowd? >> i've got to tell you this is, you know the biggest mall in illinois and you can tell if people are standing in line to spend their money this store is limiting the number of people that can get in and look at the line, take a look at that line. these are people standing in line this is actually a jewelry store. pandora standing in line to spend their money, so i'll tell you, this has been a

bertha >> david, as mark twain put it, history doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes, and that's certainlye with the nasdaq 100. the big caps up for the ninth straight year in a row, the longest annual streak for the index since the big tech breakout of the 1990s. these four mega caps, you know them, apple, microsoft, amazon, they've made the biggest impact in terms of the upside gains for the s&p 500, overall market, and when you add in alphabet, they actually account for two-thirds of the nasdaq 100's 15-point gain this year microsoft benefiting from its shift to cloud technologies is up for the sixth straight year, that's its best straight winning streak since the launch of windows in the mid '90s, and on the downside this year, though, we've seen consumer names. they are not huge laggards really many took a hit due to hurricanes, o'reilly automotive one of them. it had ridden the nasdaq rally, down for the eighth time ulta beauty snapping that three-year bull run. but like a lot of retailers, both o'reilly and ulta expect to pay a tax rate this quarter of more than 37%, so as you start

patriotic fervor and pondered issues of historical accuracy and they may have experienced what mark twain called after visiting the capital the delirium trimmings of art. but above all, visitors have entered and exited the building with a particular sense of ownership, a kind of national home, therefore it is not expected to be museum perfect or history book accurate. as ames put it in 1874, the capital's defects more in dear us, because above all it is human. she said "these corridors, domeng walls, this mighty are years, the highest man in the nation owns nothing here which does not equal to the one -- clearly belong to you. down from her shield bestows no -- the goddess of liberty gazing down from her shield bestows no rights upon the lofty which she does not extend to the lowliest of her sons." third and final section. the very idea of america. all this suggests that the horizon of expectations that visitors bring to the capital is at best highly abstract, and at worst so vague and contradictory as to be almost meaningless, and yet the building is packed with very specific representat

mark twain, samuel clemens said they're liars. and there are the stats ticks. but lying is the propaganda that's been put out all the time by this stuff about ronald reagan. i lived through ronald reagan. i'm 66 years old. ronald reagan cut taxes and raised it seven years after that. you should play allen simpson to this guy. i a senator from utah believe. and every time this guy comes with grover nor-tax nor quistperpwuts this myth. do you remember read my lips when george h.w. bush had to come in and say he wouldn't cut taxes and then he cut them again six months later? it's nonsense. pply side economics is economics. bush said that when reagan proposed it. it's nonsense. when you take a basic economics course in college they would tell you that demand creates an economy and flows it. it's the same stuff. we went in to debt under ronald reagan. big-time. host: let's give henry olson a chance to respond. i believe that candidate bush said he would not raise taxes. guest: that's right. president reagan cut tax rates by 30% -- 25% across the board. he cut tax ra

wes: we discover if this watch once belonged to one of america's greatest writers, mark twain. i learned a good lie can travel twice around the globe before the truth gets its boots on.

drawnout and a lot of politicians will rely on famous quote from i think it was popularized by mark twain that there are lies and statistics so they will believe something that defeats their perspective. you have a partisan pathway where both republican and democrat, both democrats have a partnership pathway which is across party lines. you vote for my or my bill, i'll vote for use in the last one, the fastest and most effective but problematic way to pass policy is the symbolic pathway. and it's taking a case for example or an go and getting people's emotions invested. and then saying look at these poor children that were traffic on back page, why would you support them. that's what they use to affect policy but they have no idea what the collateral consequences are. i think that they don't necessarily want to do what's effective, they want to do something that makes them look good. and if, and it's fast and quickly. with bipartisan support. if it has collateral consequences, i think a lot of them don't think that far in advance but in this book i take quotes from a website that is based