we are on location in las vegas at freedom fast and as entrepreneur, wayne allyn root -- allyn root in his book, "the conscience of a libertarian". mr. root, if we start by giving us a quick bio of yourself so people know who's talking. >> guest: appgen automation or at life through at first joseph is based in vegas. i was thinking of vegas for skimming for 25 years before he ever got involved in politics. i guarantee i'm the only person of freedom fest with a star in las vegas. las vegas walk of stars of the people of the world. wayne newton and wayne root and franks are not shut shatt and liberace, interesting crowd. i did into politics at a guarantee of nearly las vegas huffaker to be a vice presidential nominee and a regular on fox news. american sherbet or fox news.com. i write for probably every major conservative website in the world. my commentary is read by 75 million people and i do about a thousand radio interviews he aired. so i get my political advice and insights and analysis out there every day of the week and my number one thing at this point is america desperately need

we've been talking with wayne allyn root. "the conscience of a libertarian" as the name of the book. >> and booktv is on location in las vegas at the annual freedom fest conference and we are interviewing several authors here and were pleased to be joined now by the vice presidential nominee for the libertarian party for vice president for vice president of the united states, judge james gray, who is also an author and his book is called "why our drug laws have failed and what we can do about it." judge gray, if we could does start with your background. tell us your background. >> guest: sure, i was at ucla, go bruins, not sort of thing. and i was in the peace corps two years in costa rica. and on the vice presidential nominee for the party. i'm the first peace corps volunteer to be elected to national office and that's kind of pleasing. after that i went to usc law school, was being drafted so i joined the naval rotc and was a navy attorney, jack attorney for four years. that's why it was being drafted within a week from get

on location and loss vegas at the freedom dressed and now joining us is author and entrepreneur wayne allyn root ne here is his book the content of the libertarian the power in the citizen revolution with god, guns and gold and tax cuts to read mr. root, if you would start by giving a quick biography of yourself so people know who we are talking to to the estimate i can give you a biography very quick the first thing you need to know is this is based in las vegas, the media calls me the king of vegas gambling for 25 years before i got involved in politics. i guarantee i'm the only person that has a star on the sidewalk of las vegas, there's 50 people and the world. wayne newton and wayne root and frank sinatra. it's an interesting probably got into politics and i'm the only bus vegas maker to become a vice presidential nominee and regular on fox news. on the columnist and contributors at fox news.com. i write for probably every major conservative website in the world. my commentary is read by 75 million people and i do about a thousand radio interviews a year so i get my political advice an

. >> so is that really the image that the democrats want, wayne allyn root joins us from las vegas, heian party. nice to see you this morning, wayne, welcome to the show. >> hey, clayton that was surely democracy at work now wasn't it. >> clayton: in part. we know that on the teleprompter ahead of time it already said two-thirds votes they were going to do it anyway, but you heard the booing and mitt romney on the campaign trail yesterday saying he's not going to remove from the party platform. does this in the end hurt democrats or a snafu that goes away? >> well, it didn't involve god it would go away, but i honestly believe this is the democrats michael dukakis moment. in '88. dukakis had a lead over george h.w. bush until he ran in the tank. you saw the little 5 foot 5 guy in the tank and they ran ads that made him look like a fool. if the republicans and mitt romney have smarts, i believe this moment will be captured in tv ads and run again and again and again, as my commentary said, the democrats are now the party that boos god. that's the image. and you can get away with demoniz