>> vellis is this, lebanon is a dark place and afford to delay there is a large number of people whothink they will make their lives better by shooting at their neighbor. >> negotiating? >> it doesn't work. it never does. the civil war with john 15 years. i don't understand all the different sizes and factions i have been going to lebanon for years. it is like quote or one. and nobody one. there was a great quote about this budget to paraphrase everyboby is against everyone else we just keep going in circles without anything being accomplished and nobody winning. most lebanese people have been to analyze this and realize that is how it is. and when everybody in the country internalizes the lesson i think is when the country will be okay but we are not quite there yet unfortunately. >> host: using just lebanon could not survive in a sea with the neighbors that it has. do you still feel that? >> yes. is a democratic country surrounded by hostile dictatorships that now 18 is a certain percentage of population of those willing to work with a foreign dictators. the country cannot hold up

like the fourth vellis. my further reaction and thus far is from a friend to read it just before going to sleep one night. must be a bad thing. and said she woke up weeping from a nightmare in which she was being pursued by the nazis and all she had to protector was her little purple plastic water bottle. [laughter] i have to say if i think if somebody nightmares besides my wife, i consider that a victory. i will stop there and take questions. if you don't i have questions for you to -- . [applause] >> you have to go down to the microphone so that will add to the pressure we have c-span recording this. these people are leaving or they will ask me a question. [laughter] >> i was just curious with your writings has there ever been an idea that you start to research or write for a book that all of a sudden decide this is and going to work and what was said about? >> yes. second question. [laughter] >> i will not tell you what it is about because you never know but just recently having been and still and in the

ali velly have is off. romans is in new hampshire where they're getting set for the gop debate tonight. hey, christine. >> good morning, kiran. live this morning from saint anselm college in new hampshire the site of the first in the nation presidential primary. and tonight's republican presidential debate. many of the candidates will be on the stage made the rounds this weekend. tonight you're going to hear from former massachusetts governor mitt romney, former speaker of the house newt gingrich, former governor of minnesota tim pawlenty, congressman ron paul, congresswoman michelle bachmann of minnesota, herman cain, former ceo of godfather's pizza and he did pretty well in south carolina recently. he's got a lot of buzz about him. former pennsylvania senator rick santorum. here's a look at how it all came together in fasforward. 700 new hampshire voters will be in attendance tonight along with people across the state asking questions on two big screens. you can see us putting the whole thing there togeth