decash was there and min ola sanchez was there and i believe that was it. plus only four secret service agents. it was woefully understaffed. it was a scary time. we got up there while it was still dark. and he spent 45 minutes, maybe longer, talking to the students. i heard a lot of it, listened to it, wrote down some of it after it was over. basically, it was a time when i was really afraid for his safety. i know he wrote later on that he had never seen the secret service quite so frightened. he certainly got that right. we did not have a sufficient detail to protect him if somebody had decided to attack him or assault him. it was totally unplanned and unscripted. his own notes of the meeting are extraordinary. what he covered in that time -- it was not just a drop-by, this was a major effort to communicate with these young people and the crowd grew. it got bigger. as they began to realize this is not rich little, this is richard nixon. this is the real guy. >> what time of the night was that? >> it is after midnight. this is one of the greatest president

>> it was very small when i was growing up. pe there it has about over 100,000 people there but i grew up in they. outskirts of the city. so to me it felt more like auray small town. rt it was very rural. you know, there were dirt roads, no running water. tha the city was very unstable. so that's where i grew up, in the the outskirts very, very close to the mountains. which are very, very beautiful, and, you know, very meaningful to me because when my parents came to the u.s., and the u.s., to us, we called it the other side, and as a child, i always thought that it was the other side of the mountains so i thought that that's where the u.s. was, on the other side of those mountains. >> host: when did you come to the u.s. and why? >> guest: i came to the u.s. when i was nine and a half years old. this was back in 1985, and the reason why i came was because my parents were already here. my father left when i was 2. my mother came here when i was four and a half, and my father came back to mexico, and he saw that we were not taken

she was as radical as he was. but roz didn't share his opportunities, which was true of most women of that generation. roz was not only the homemaker, the person who did most of the shopping, cleaning, cooking, raising of the kids, and roz was a very gifted person. finally after the children were grown and she finally had a chance to do some of, to explore some of her own gifts, he became a quite talented painter. i've seen quite a bit of her work. and i think i reproduce one of her paintings in the biography. so i think if roz had had more time and more encouragement as her generation of women simply did not, she might have achieved -- i'm almost sure she would have achieved far more. >> host: at the beginning of this interview, you mentioned the fact that howard was fairly meticulous in sort of purging his archives of a lot of personal material. did you feel like looking over his life you got any insight into why he would have done that? >> guest: to compensate for the lack of personal material in the archives,

it was the one thing about which he was wrong.t he was right about that was the Ñ unwillingness of people in authority to hear the truth. they denied the truth, ignored the truth, censored the truth Ñ and this came to the fore in a grand jury session in 1947-1948 where all these agents were ç paraded to testify. alger hiss, the list is long, ñ they are all in this book, left to walk and left to walk because the prosecutors, one witness against them and elizabeth bentley, and therefore could not convict these people, led the mall walk. and the other witness they could have had -- after u.s. meetings, broke the case that led to the conviction of alger hiss and we had the minutes of those grand  jury sessions pertaining to them. that changed the course of history. whitaker chambers not only lived history and wrote history but z changed history and to this day i don't think we appreciate how important he was in this pivota episode where he broke through the concealment to bring about the indictment and conviction of alger hiss

bad in the seventy's was it was it was still it was funny because the people still thought of russia as. they call you know. because i know recently all that stuff and i'm not a spy so much no yeah and so it was still very fresh even though it was you know a decade later so you went to school and i know your parents wanted you to be a businessman about well yes i think they wanted me to be maybe a doctor. or a lawyer or something like that for a bit but why why did you why did you decide to disobey parents not to go into another successful career from the point of view soviet mentality yes that in the states should be a businessmen a lawyer or a dentist and you say went wrong why i don't know there's something something happened to me when you know my dad bought a television then he brought it home and i turned on the t.v. and there was you know bugs bunny and tom and jerry popeye all these shows and something you know i just fell in love with it i don't know that we don't have any artists in our family there's no history of art and something something snapped in my head and there we

it was absolutely -- it was out of bounds. i had no idea. >> jimmy keene grew up 135 miles away in kenkakee, illinois. he didn't know larry hall and he had no idea that their worlds would someday collide. >> third down and five at the 25 yard line. >> for jimmy keene life couldn't have been more different. while hall was an awkward outsider, jimmy keene was a star. especially under the lights on friday nights. >> we would come out here. the lights would be on. the whole stadium would be just completely full and the crowd would be roaring and it was just a very euphoric, unbelievable high. the friday night games were the biggest rush i've ever had in my life. >> a gifted athlete, he lettered in two sports, studied martial arts, and inspired fear in everyone he faced. you like having people terrified of you just a little bit? >> in that kind of sport, sure, you have to. that's why they called me "the assassin." >> you were the assassin. >> yes. my nickname was the assassin. and the reason my nickname was the assassin is because

who was this man servant? what was his life about? it all began with the seeds and the particular questions, as simple as that. although, then, i had to answer them. what i had done is i usual low don't work with an out line. a lot of writers do they will out line what will happen and sometimes they have to because like if you are writing a mystery you need to write out the plot. i write about characters the characters drive the story. when that hatched i sat down and said, what happens is, a, he arrived and gets off the train what's going to happen. >> i know z, he would get on the train and leave at the evented book. i didn't know the alphabet in between. i was nervous and i took one step at a time very japanese like. i began to study and read everything i could find on the japanese culture. the incredible thing was not having everything that went into it and it still became a quiet book. there is a tsunami. there's tv and lep easier and a fire. i call it my zen book i think it's because as i was learning about the japanese culture,

i'm sure he was. and so was i.but we knew professionally this was the decision that needed to be made. >> the jobs of tens of thousands of employees can literally be at stake. >> narrator: in september 2012, lanny breuer gave a speech explaining his reluctance to indict a major bank. >> those are the kinds of considerations in white-collar cases that literally keep me up at night. >> smith: you gave a speech before the new york bar association. and in that speech, you made a reference to losing sleep at night worrying about what a lawsuit might result in at a large financial institution. >> right. >> smith: is that really the job of a prosecutor, to worry about anything other than simply pursuing justice? >> well, i think i am pursuing justice. and i think the entire responsibility of the department is to pursue justice. but in any given case, i think i and prosecutors around the country being responsible should speak to regulators, should speak to experts. because if i bring a case against institution a, and as a

this was before he was in office. he was interested in coalitions. he got me involved in the blue green alliance which was an alliance between environmentalists and labor and promote green energy and other activities and he brought all of this to the college board when he came. he brought me on, as i said to be a warrior, to fight the corruption, the lack of transparency, and other horrible things that were going on at the time, and after things got going we worked together on some projects of policy. he had an idea to create a sustainability plan that was not going anywhere for a while, but we worked together on that and we passed it, and it's really a great plan. it's an environmental model, i have to say. he brought a sunshine policy. we worked together in passing a sunshine policy. you have no idea how hard this was. everyone was opposed to it. it took a year, but we finally got it through, and he was persistent. we would meet about it and after i would say "i don't know milton. this doesn't look like it's going anywhere" and he would say "no. we

c-span: how long was he when he was killed? >> guest: she was 39 just like dr. king to read both of them were killed at 39. neither of them live to reach their 40th birthday. c-span: how many copies of his autobiography were sold? >> guest: it's been translated into 20 languages. i think 15 million. i mean his autobiography really creative malcolm x. i put him here in this because -- she's an extraordinary figure and he had cultural impact. but he didn't have that much historical impact. first of all, he's a fugitive. she's out of the country for a lot of this period. we read a lot backwards into it, that's not -- she was not that big of a figure. lyndon johnson couldn't even pronounce his name cockled muslim ex. it didn't know who he was. the autobiography that cannot nine months after he was killed, towards the end of 1965, raised his profile dramatically. and the next year when black power was pronounced and he was -- as a new doctrine -- and he was kind of adopted as the patron saint of political power, she became more significant in death than he was in lif

at the was a great deal. i was completely blown away. what i was blown away by more than anything, and this goes to what jeff was talking about this morning, was the novel's. a kind of understand what they're about. about women in fiction and why women did not have the authority to be writers, and that address very directly an issue that i had. deeply personal, deeply inspiring, and in the light of that as a taking seriously her feminism because it was, i thought, very important to her. i read the novels and read them in what turned up to be as slightly different way from other people because i was interested in this issue of her being a woman and take that seriously. so i started writing essays about the books can then threaded them together. to my amazement this was considered a biography. i moved backwards into biography , not forwards. that did not know what i did not intend to write a biography. i backed into a. i have to say in my own praise the ones i saw what i had done i thought, this is a really good idea. i continued. i contin

but at the moment, it was, washington was in a frenzy this was going define the entire four years. and so what you have to learn in the white house is to keep your wits about you and understand that there are very, that you have to deal with all of it. but that very little of it is the defining issue. >> and in fact what are you doing in one day is going from one issue to another issue to another issue. >> yeah, i mean i remember the day we-- the day we dealt with the auto bailout, early in the administration. the president had a meeting on some national security 3450e9ing on some intelligence from north korea. we had a meeting on the auto bailout that he had cut short to go to the situation room to go to afghanistan. and that is the way the day went. and we convened again at 6:00 at night had. a long suggestion in which he decided to move forward on the auto bailout and went back to my office and collapsed in my chair. the phone rang and its was rahm's office. gi in there and he says fargo's underwater. fargo's flooding. that is the nature of life in the white house. and it's exhi

i was there when it was an ice skating rink, probably the year before it was burned down.the mummies were there. >> he had that victorian style of stuffing everything he could into this place. he had seashells and jaguars and everything he thought might be interesting or educational to people. people would come over to swim, but they could also see a huge tableau of "the last supper." >> right over here is woodward gardens. he started collecting stuff. he invited people over and eventually opened it up to the public. he had a menagerie. >> it was an 1800 thing. >> could any of the people in this room go? >> ice skating. >> ice skating. >> you could see the remains of the pool. i thought the ice rink was made out of one of the largest pools. >> yes. you can see the ell that goes around. they tried to make it a tropical beach theme. they had a bunch of sand. like you could not go to the beach 40 feet away. >> it did burn down. it seems like it would have been a wonderful resource for the city to purchase it and rebuild it -- >> you could never afford the money to rebuild it.

there was no harbour but just open sea. it was difficult. and was incredibly tense. the young men and would get drunk every night. it was to be ears. every night we had to take them back. if you can imagine in the dark, not a single light on the sea or the land and grow your way out juicy and the places where they belong to. but one of the main things was listen to these people. they wanted to talk. they had no idea why they were there. they wanted to talk about their families. was thinking via other night i don't think any of them talked about the future but four hours and hours of a talk to the young mariners most of whom were lost and for what it meant to them. so i think it was just listening to the people. we were having a hard time being recognized so the queen mum very kindly came on our boat. so she could make it look more legitimate so we were more accepted as part of the navy. and of course, she came with her high heels. [laughter] it was good of her to do that. >> host: i was struck that the young people don't have with mortality but there was a teacher --

i hadn't heard about that and it was perfect. it was exactly what i was looking for. i can go off and preach about the fact they think so many of us asian american authors and asian authors in general tend to go back and write about our ancestors and write about things in our past not our specific past but may be of of ancestors and mothers and grand mothers. we have been telling their story. i think the generation to come, will be telling stories of living here. it will be different stories. but the oppression of our voices have been for so many, many years, if you think back the first writer who was read in terms of asian american was maxine kingston. i read her in high school and was greatly affected by reading about the woman warrior. before her there were few. there were some but didn't make that economic splash. they were never read in a large way. maxine was the first one we read her in school we knew of her. she was not out there like anny tan was when she wrote the joy luck club. so much of it is timing. it meant all the history and the voices before then had

i was my age now and he was young.in a hallway where there were all these doors and he was sort of standing there looking kind of shy and the way he looked at me. and i was standing there with my hands on my hips and i just said, well, you don't have to hide me anymore. >> reporter: wow. you don't have to hide me anymore? >> yeah. >> reporter: i'm not a secret anymore. >> i'm not a secret anymore. >> think about that. the dream is in 2005. the affair was 1962 and she finally, through that dream, felt she had found her voice. >> what a mythic figure. i grew up in a house with a picture of him in the kitchen and so did a lot of folks watching tonight. and they're engaged in this story. >> she still has the highest regard for him despite the circumstances she was put in. she says she was put in. >> our thanks to you for so expertly leading this conversation. a great bit of reporting, meredith, thanks. welcome to the broadcast. we appreciate it. as we mention, we've seen quite a robust response to this story online already

i always had said when he was younger, it was like, you know, he was a computer and i was computer illiterate, and i didn't know how to press the right keys. sorry. to get him to communicate. it was just, you know--that was the hard part is, you knew there was more in there, and you didn't know how to get it out. >> touch screen computers help josh communicate. can they do the same for these children at the beverley school in toronto, canada... >> [screaming] >> where half the students are severely autistic and more impaired than josh? the day we were there, kindergarten teacher sabrina morey struggled to figure out why seven-year-old nathan was so upset. >> students don't have a way to communicate with me. they don't have a way to tell me how they're feeling, what they want, what they need. >> oh, look, the ipad's here. >> for the past year, morey and her fellow teachers ian stuart and stacie carroll have been involved in the first study to find out just how effective the ipad is with their students. has the ipad made any difference? >> the ipad has made a huge difference. there's something

how old was he when he was doing this? was he in school? >> guest: in college, these were academic papers. it wasn't like he was handing in a paper that he had copied from somebody else. it was -- the way that i would look at it, he was taking passages and sometimes writing them accurately sometimes not attributing. crusco when preachers preach the preach from the bible -- >> guest: and then hand it into a college professor. that's the difference what you can do and what you can't do, and one of them is everything that you get from another source you attribute to that source. >> host: we need more time because you're wonderful book. doorplate. you want to do more with dr. king's legacy ban just write a book or two papers. there are passages of martin luther king. tell about the play. you took it to china and palestine. those are amazing places to take a play about dr. king as a protester against government. talk about that for a minute. >> guest: i've engaged in doing documentaries on the movement of martin luther king and i've looked at ei

and when i walked out today and he said i was positive it was like i was living in a fog. but i was in a daze. and i went back to work like nothing had ever happened but it did it devastate i didn't know where to turn to talk to. how to tell family. i was lost. it was my mother father and we were any case in. and my husband says oh hi how are you what's going on and they say nothing you know i had him with me there as well when it's all me you know i need you guys to this is one involved with it in a mother was cooking we came in he said he wanted to talk and he came in and my husband came in. he told us he had something to say to us and its own that i was a positive this is why i'm in a relationship with a mother started crying and my father being the man he is ask me so what does it mean you lost dresses and they bring you do you know who will he set up the days it was god and just life floored me that started the whole argument and i just walked out you know that put a big strain on our relationship. it's different it's better than it was there isn't a whole lot of conv

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there was industry, what was that? she was in seattle. >> host: how long was she in seattle? >> guest: about a year and a half. as a single mother, yes. she had babysitters and she went to school part-time. sort of got herself back together. that first semester at the university of hawaii have been through difficult because she got pregnant. so she had to sort of resume herself academically. she did at the university of all white, and then after barack sr. had left a wide to go to harvard, she and little barrie came back. >> host: 1962-1967 there were back in honolulu. who was her second husband? >> guest: per second husband was another international guide from indonesia. she had met him at the university of hawaii. he came there to the east-west center there, which barack, students from various asian countries to hawaii and brought american-style of -- that's where she met him. he was a tennis player. he was very gregarious at that time, and she fell in love with little spin at what point did they move to jakarta? >> tragedy went back for. -- >> guest: he went back first. lo

that was the track that i was on. had spent time on the stage quite a bit and my teacher thought that i should audition for a role. in the and the way he coming to do it was simply by telling me that they needed someone who had an athletic build and someone who played high school sports and i have done that. and i looked at it and i thought, oh, what harm would that do. so i ended up with the role. c-span: what year was that? >> guest: well, the film came out in 1997. probably five years before that. it probably was 1991 or 1992. at any rate, a year later, it was in the back of my mind. some things stick with you. they do with me and i take it as a sign that perhaps i should investigate. and so i took a class that summer in new york. and i haven't had any experience , but the class was very moving and open up something inside of me. he revealed to me that perhaps there was another place to put my experience in my expression. c-span: where does the name "the wire" come from? >> guest: i have to ask david, to be quite h

and i was 20, john was 22, jimmy was 23 or whatever it was. so you didn't have this kind of need to be purist or whatever. >> was there a leader? >> among pu? >> was there first among equal? >> well, jimmy was in charge. with the crafting initially. and with the understanding. and all that and we and i really couldn't believe it he got the extra money for driving the van. and i got some penicillin. we were feeling pretty good about all that stuff, you know, and going back and telling all those people without kept crossing the road to avoid us, that you know, something was going on. as time went on we matured a little bit from the middle of england. and we played a different role as things developed. >> did it keep getting better? >> for a long time, yeah. >> creatively. >> yeah. >> the response. >> we played bigger and bigger venues. which i must admit, i wasn't that keen on the really big venues. because i, it lost a lot lot of the subtlety in the band. everything has to be just broad gestures. and while it great that a lot of people can see

it was in a bar on the campus that i was picked up by bone. what year was that? '65-- lifetime ago.here's kitten? she's in her room. she's safe. (playing fluent jazz/rock passage) good. i want her to be safe. why, mack? why does kitten matter to you so much? because she's my daughter. i mean, to allow oneself to be impregnated by mack maguire could be written off as youthful indiscretion. but to keep the child... that speaks of a deep-rooted confidence i now... cannot recognize in myself at all. the father's a junky? that's okay. swap him for his big brother. raise the child with him instead. it'll work out. does she know? all this truth in circulation, she'll probably find out. best if i let her know myself, i think. poor mack. he never cared about "counterculture blues." but richie relieving him of his baby. that was hard to take. that's what tipped him over the edge. richie knows it. that's why he's so crippled with guilt. any idea who sent that spider to jo race? i did. i thought she was having an affair with richie. dr. frisch, she said yes. to what? the e-mail i sent her askin

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he was the guy that was seen as going places. he was a champion of urban renewal.some problems ensued and gerald ford lost the election. he went on to become mayor. he had characters who were running around the city stealing manhole covers, selling trucks to private owners. and there was massive corruption. several people in the administration went to prison. he never rounded out his top aide. but he is part of a personal narrative went through a nasty divorce. he basically accused a businessman of sleeping with his wife. a bodyguard held him prisoner for several hours and tortured him with a lit cigarette. he was ultimately charged with assault. and not force his resignation in 1984. and that was the end of the political career. he spent the next exteriors on talk radio is a popular host. in 1990 he ran for mayor again with a slogan that he never stopped caring. "the wall street journal" called his comeback wonderful end of 1990 he was elected by a few hundred votes. ..

was a king? king? was it malcolm x? was at the death of medgar evers? was a stokely carmichael or john lewis? >> guest: all of them have different roles. one of the ways in which i try to explain to students that parks made martin luther king possible. if she hadn't done what she did by refusing to give seat on that montgomery bus martin luther king would have simply been an articulate well meaning baptist minister. is because of rosa parks that we are talking about him today. he opened up -- she opened up the possibility for him to display those qualities that he had and to rise to the occasion. >> host: she also said as you well know that while she was sitting on the bus refusing to give seat she was thinking about emmett till, the young 14-year-old but what from chicago who went to mississippi in 1955 and because he looked at a white woman he was brutally murdered. do you think that changed or sparked anything in the civil rights movement? >> guest: a lot of things did. there was his death. there was the brown versus board of education decision. ther

he was fat. he was unhappy. he was cantankerous, and he was a forgotten man. martin luther king, on that day, faced a crisis of his own. the civil rights legislation that john f. kennedy finally introduced in june of '63, pushed by the demonstrations in birmingham, which revealed the police dogs dogs and the fire h. suddenly the government had to act. the first great accomplishment of lynn johnson son, that not much attention is given to, is the magnificent way he assumed the presidency. this was a nation in crisis. we had a cold war going on. in which the -- there was huge fear of russian missiles heading our way. our president had been killed. we didn't know whether it was the russians who had kill him or castro or -- it was great, great uncertainty. and johnson came to that job, reassured the nation, took the reins of government, and during that first year, he was president, passed the historic 1964 civil rights act, which outlawed official segregation in the south, made employment discrimination a crime. it was a very, very -- probably the most important a

i was just, i was done. >> it was obvious she was in shock. wasn't listening to anything i said. she wasn't helping in any way. she was just lying there. >> officer mahlberg manages to secure the harness and they both lift off into the sky. after more than 30 minutes of complete terror, angela's body gives out. >> and as he started to lift me off my car, just the relief, everything just was so much, i passed out. i was out cold. i even saw the aerial footage of me when i got home that night. i'm like, oh, that's a lovely picture. i remember thinking, that's how everybody's going to see me? like that? >> the rescue crew struggles to get angela into the chopper. finally, she's safe. >> i mean there's no doubt she would have died. two minutes later her car was gone. >> angela knows how close she came to dying, and she'll never forget the search and rescue team that gave her a second chance at life. >> it was one of those things that had to be done. they did their job, and thank god for that. >>> coming up, a veteran balloonist and his two young p

it was not a fact of all, it was a piece of conventional wisdom that was wrong. now it is being used as a small fact. yes, sir? >> was it important it something not be forgotten from the white house? >> absolutely, that's the whole point of creating this collection of words. it's like i quoted earlier. the word is a single unit of communication. just because you're not in the dictionary doesn't really mean anything. there is no reason -- i have been working for years to create a couple words, i created a word that needed places where people come from. and it gets into this book even. works george washington creates michigander and then later they say the goose and gander. but i have tried mightily. but now that it's on c-span comments live. [applause] >> [inaudible question] >> it depends on popular use. one thing that sort of came out of the 80s was humongous. there's no reason that words in the english language. these two kids are probably walking on the street in los angeles and they are like i have this humongous exam tomorrow and i haven't studied. if so tha

it was a dallas -- it was a disaster. i began to change on domestic policy and i realize that, however good the intentions of american liberalism and it was destroying a whole sector of society and destroying the lives, the culture, the resolve, the character of the people it wanted to help. so that is how it happened. they moved on domestic affairs and i moved and i am where i am now. of course, that is a long way to say that i was young once. [laughter] >> q u concern note -- you consider yourself a new conservative? is that a term that is used anymore? >> know. it is now an epithet. it was -- there was wanted someone had a meeting. -- a meaning. today it's usually meant as a nym for jewish conservatism. whenever you hear the word, i challenge the person to describe and explain to you what a new icon is and i guarantee you they will have no answer. it used to mean somebody who was once a level and became more conservative. the day who was once a liberal and became more conservative -- it used to mean somebody who was on

he too was an ex-communist as burnham was. but meyer was a conservative activist. a passion that conservative activists. rusher even told me that meyer had once been a militant communist. rusher had been a militant republican, quote, they are not all that far apart except in what they believe. what rusher meant by that was he had it tremendous attraction to and respect for political obsession. maier was intellectually obsessed, had a house that was literally full of books. hard to imagine or describe, the books were everywhere. some extremely intellectual but also extremely political. as david keene, no longer but longtime chairman of the administrative conservative union put to me and a young conservative in 1960, you can visit myron take a bus from the midwest, come back and two weeks later you get busted out of bed by the phone ringing at 2:00 in the morning, frank meyer would be saying why haven't you done this? the university of wisconsin, why did you do this or the other thing? that style of leadership or mentoring wouldn't be too welcome among conservative t

king was because i was staying at her home when i was working for ebony magazine. dr. king would come by there. i met him the day after he was hit in the headache each part. you talk in the book about his being hit in the head in cicero, illinois. did you meet him? >> guest: i only saw him from a distance. i tried to get as close as i could come so i got to the foot of the lincoln memorial. but the notion of an 18-year-old that i would even shake hands with him would've been the thrill of my life. i only saw him speak twice and both times i saw him from the crowd. he came to ucla when i was a student aaron spoke been set up as the other time. maybe in 1865, something like that. >> host: how did that impact you on the way home? >> guest: i didn't have a ride back. i didn't tell my parents i was coming and i had a ticket that only went back to indianapolis. so then i just have to hitchhike. i hitchhike across the country. >> host: were you scared? >> guest: as an 18-year-old you think you can do anything. >> host: how did hearing dr. king's speech that date contact view

and i was talking about how important he was to me because he was a role model of what i might be able do and achieve. i think i intuitively understood and speaking about that friend was from grammar school. i had a fifth-grade teacher and i described this in the book who gave out gold stars when you got good grades and i wanted some gold stars. but i couldn't figure out how to do it. and so i knew there was one girl and i have been in school with her for four years. she always got all the gold stars and i wanted some. so i went to her and i just said, how do you study backs i learned in writing this book because i saw her again and believe it or not i didn't remember that story. she reminded me of that story. [laughter] it was nice to be able to put it in the book in all but she explained to me how to study and how to underline the important facts and what she was reading, how to go back through the next day so you commit them to memory and for the exam she would go three looking at those important points. and she said, that is how she went about remembering everything she had to reme

it was actually-- it was earlier than that.when i began at cnn in january 2010, it was a week after gabby giffords had been shot. and i was completely shocked, not just by what happened to her and the six people who got killed but the fact that after a week of mourning and general chatter about a debate about gun control, nothing happened. so a congresswoman could be nearly murdered, at pointblank range by a deranged man way bunch of firearms and no action was taken to tray to prevent this happening again. and from then on, there was a pattern of these massacres and mass shootings. they came with alarming reg layerity in america and nothing ever got done. i really exploded after the aurora movie theater shooting. because there you had a young man who had acquired four firearms perfectly legally, including one of these ar15 assault rifles. me then got 6,000 rounds of amnition anonymously on the internet, and he had dressed up as the joker and gone to a movie theater and gunned down a record number of americans in one single shoo

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so it was not a happy ending, it was a good ending. so what i thought i'd do for the main body of my remarks today is tell you just a couple of my favorite stories, not just about mistresses in history but more important lip -- importantly about presidential character. there's some juicy stories. one involveds grover cleveland. now, when grover cleveland was a young man there was a controversy because cleveland fathered a child out of wedlock, but the woman named maria hallpin from pennsylvania, might have been a prostitute, at the least she was very casual about her relationships. now, cleveland was a bachelor, and is running in he 1880s and the 1890s, so fathering a child out of wed look was a big to-do at the time. and it was such a big to-do for other reasons. one was that the republican opponents of cleveland that were backing the republican nominee, and a group of very righteous preachers starred a campaign that no one in the country escapes, long your doors, dracula is here, cleveland is prowling the street, debaching young men.

that was in 1985. it was below 7 degrees. it was a bitter cold day in washington. the reagan white house the night before looking at the weather forecast thought it was cruel and unusual punishment to make people outside in this weather. they call the chairman of the rules committee and the inaugural committee and said, we think it should be moved aside to the rotunda. being part of a joint committee, he thought the best thing was to call tip o'neill. it was finally tracked down in a bar where he was watching a basketball game. speaker o'neill said, it is his inauguration he should have it where he wants it. congress cooperated and moved it inside. most people saw it on television at that point. the architect of the capital said, i would be impeached if i moved the inauguration inside because there are so many people coming to washington. a lot of inauguration's have been held out in pretty miserable weather. there was a blizzard going on when william howard taft was inaugurated. they still had a completely out door ceremony. it was part rain for herbert hoover. he

the billion law unit was full of woman. there was jan who was involved. there are also a lot of goes. an analyst called john, a pseudonym to played a critical role. at the end of the day there was a president obama who barely appeared in this film to made the desist -- decision to go ad put the navy seals on the ground. as an epic directed by a woman obviously the star of film making, that's much more defensible than the portrait of coercive interrogation that the film present as history. >> rose: mark, how does the film do in terms of depicting the essence of the raid, the essence of the pakistani mission? >> they do a very good job. there are some things that aren't exactly true. they depict for instance three blackhawks on this raid. the one blackhawk crashes and a third blackhawk mysteriously appears to carry them out. in fact, there were two chin hooks and two blackhawks involved. i think on the ground details, clearly they were talking to people who were there or who knew that story because they got that i think at least according to my understandin

it was -- he was not gloating. was forcefully making a case that presidents, that liberal presidents, if i may use that terrible word, liberal -- >> yeah, you should. >> have been a little slow on making. >> yeah, bobby, i think there's a real argument here that this is sort of an anti-iran speech, an anti-paul ryan speech. and rick said, no, it's not every person for themgs. that isn't going to sell. they don't like it in american life today. i think that's what he was selling, i agree with rick. it was strongly philosophical about community values. >> well, i think that's right. i think rick is completely right. you know, in 1960, and, chris, you know this, when nixon ran away from the word conservative, he was a modern republican, maybe he was even a liberal republican, nelson rock feller was a liberal republican. conservatives said we're progressive, we're a third way party. and somehow or other, what the president did today, and it wasn't a call to go back to a previous time, it was a call to go forward on the

he was starting to figure out what its purpose was. one letter he wrote describing his friends and other aspects of his life, all finding a comfortable niche. he wrote that he felt envious of them that they could find a place. he said that for me to feel my own self-worth, i can't do that. i have to embrace it all. that letter at age 22 was the first iteration of the speech by which everyone in the server got to know him in 2004, keynote speech at the democratic national convention in boston. that really was a sensibility he took with him through the rest of his adult life. and again i'll compare it with bill clinton. you have these two young people, born essentially not nowhere, but very provincial settings. hawaii thousands of miles from the mainland, southwest arkansas. both without knowing their father's spirit will clinton sisco before he was born. barack obama's never lived with the family. both with alcoholism is part of the internal family secret. but having to resolve a lot of contradictions they did in completely different wa

be argument was simple it was this. should she leave this world there'd be no telling what might happen to the first child but thank goodness that never came to pass. was the disease to me by any chance to carry on with a cure. like playing with kittens i didn't pick up the disease. or didn't feel. you were a didn't either but i did it and i passed it on to maria and i say that's how it is . in the overwhelming majority of cases the failure of just one gene is enough for all stewed genesis imperfecta to be inherited. the risk of those infected passing the disorder on to their children. in the red french as when she was still in the womb the first months was the most difficult period for me she spent it all in an intensive care. and fractures. both arms. have fractured twice. oh that happened when they were messing around at the time i wasn't being attentive enough i didn't stop them and they're playing around. was that when they began tracing the cat she lost her balance fell over and broke. that incident to lay the tre

what was the mistake? >> you know, that's augustine's contention too, i'm in good company. >> you mean the saint? >> yes. yes. >> of hippo? >> yes, one of my favorites. this is something that greek-speaking christians were aware of as early as 150. >> what is the word in question? >> the word -- it's like the word for the parthenon because athena was a virgin goddess, the word is parthenos and that's the word that appears in greek of isaiah 7:14 but it's not the order in the original hebrew. >> what's the word? >> the hebrew text says ama. >> what does that translate to. >> it's the word for young girl which has its own greek word. >> what's the greek word. >> the greek word would be nianis. >> niansus is not parthenos. >> i have three daughters, we hope that young girls are virgins but it's not the same word. >> mary is not a parthenos. >> i don't know if she was or not but the text says -- >> how do you know the hebrew was mistranslated when put into greek. >> hebrew has word for virgin. it's tula and th