thanks for your thoughts. we'll move on to some other thoughts on today's hearing. i do want to mention though the hearing will reair tonight in case you missed any of it on c-span3. we'll have it at 8:00 tonight on c-span and on cspan.org. you can listen to it on the free c-span radio app. let's go to james on the line in flint, michigan, for democrats. hey, james. >> caller: i couldn't disagree more with the last caller. i think that general mattis having served under him, i think he's the right guy for that spot to keep us out of possibly the next world war iii. i think he's going to walk into the room and say, no, i think this is a bad idea, i don't think we need to do this and i believe he's willing to stand up for what's right. in my humble opinion i think he would be that guy to get fired before he did something that he did not believe in. so i think i disagree with that caller almost absolutely and saying that it's just a rubber stamp, i think in the defense secretarial ring, i think this is one of the only nominations from this president-elect that i agree

you said, i thought to myself -- guest: i thought to myself, what asshole. i was not even supposed to brief that day. all of a sudden he turned to me, he sort of ignored the other briefer and he said, ok, you are done, then he said, tell me about -- they had just had the charge of the knights, this operation in basra where the art iraqi government went in and beat up on them. i did not really have a briefing. question, i $64,000 was trying to just give myself five to 10 more seconds to gather my thoughts together. he was in a really nasty kind of mood that day. his daughter was getting married that weekend. he had to go to saudi arabia, then he went to israel. that was the famous trip where he went to saudi arabia -- he went to israel first and said, everything israel is doing is wonderful and you are on the front lines of counterterrorism. then he went to saudi arabia and said, can you turn the oil spigot on? the american economy is getting her these days. i don't think he understood there might have been a contradiction in both those statements. he was in

i just thought, these are people that are... i can't trust any of them is what i thought. so i said why not trust you guys, let's go. also, they offered me a trip into syria for $0. i was so poor at the time, i was like $0, that's my price, i'll go with you guys. so you went in with them. shortly after arriving in syria they said to you, we are from al-qaeda or nusra front... no, no, shortly after arriving in syria, firstly i slept one night in the same abandoned house as them and then the next morning we got up, went to binnish, which is where james foley and john cantlie were kidnapped a month later. it was a very dangerous little town. we drove through this town, we had coffee, we walked through the streets a little bit and then we went to another house. they brought out some cables, they started kicking me, they were filming this. whack, whack, whack. so they were militants of some kind? well, they were violent people, anyway. they brought out the handcuffs, they tied up my legs and they said, you are a prisoner. we are from the al-qaeda organisation, they said, and th

polio for f.d.r., he thought his life was at an end. after that, he became more empathetic and understanding to people. he was able to make people feel happy about their lives again during the depression. teddy roosevelt when he lost his wife and mother on the same day became a different kind of person after being in the badlands and outside with ranchers and cowboys, becoming a more ordinary person. lincoln's whole life was adversity. interestingly, lyndon johnson when he suffered a near fatal heart attack became more interested in a purpose to which his power was going to be put. to go back to the earlier question of yours, you really hope even if people climb for power in the earlier part of their careers, by the time they reach the presidency, now they have to decide for what purpose is my power going to be put. that is what l.b.j. said. some people like to strut around. i want to do something. he knew what he wanted to do. that was social and economic justice for more people. charlie: i think specifically about war. do you get a se

political thought from the revolutionary war to the constitution. it was published 1969 i think of him driving around in a beat-up car and light can sit at my computer it is digitized. tiepin documentary history or a state james madison. the madison papers. the hamilton papers. they have their own collection and is edited by experts they take with their referring to with an offhand references it is unbelievable to have this luxury then teaching at harvard i have all these students who wanted to work and collect letters and check my sources come in his of luxury. i did not travel at all but is all available on your laptop that the university of virginia in a digitized. >> i do have some worries about that most are from printed sources and the papers of the founders in the rotunda and database is incredible that means people preference the comfort of their desk to the hard research that they think reveals the everyday experience he will not get the diary of a woman on a plantation used to have to go to the archives and i worry going forward they will

it was all i thought about. >> why was it all you thought about? >> why was it all i thought about? >> yeah. >> because it would end the sex, and that's all i thought about. >> how did you feel, at 18, about the fact that your father was having sex with you? >> i hated it. i hated it. i hated it. >> you slept in bed with your mom a lot, didn't you? even when you were little? >> yes. >> and did you continue to sleep in her bed around this time when you're 11 and 12? >> sometimes. >> and sometimes did you touch your mom? >> yes. >> and where would you touch her? >> everywhere. >> the idea that erik and lyle were abused by my sister kitty is absolute insanity. >> i thought that was pretty gratuitous and just thrown in as an example of how awful the parents were that, that kitty deserved to die too because she was complicit. because the problem from their point of view was jose was a jerk, but what do you do with the mother? >> it was hard to know what kitty really did, to make them shoot her in such a way. >> if he hadn't killed his mom, and i always think that he might have got away w

in vietnam, he thought there would be a domino effect. you cannot get away from the previous experience he just had. and it does change the world power. i had not thought about it, but i think it is interesting what you are saying. charlie: bob gates has worked for as many presidents as you have written about. bob gates said to me the essential quality for a president is to have the right temperament. it is that more than almost anything. i you know better than i do, think walter lippman said franklin roosevelt had a second-class mind and first-class temperament. who said that first? oliver wendell holmes? doris: oliver wendell holmes, when he saw franklin roosevelt said a first-class temperament and second-class intellect. i don't think he had a second-class intellect, but he certainly had a first-class temperament. what that means is the you'veent means, got to be confident but have some sense you may not know things all the time. you know you are going to make mistakes. franklin roosevelt would say about himself, i know i'm going to ba

i thought that was powerful statement about what he thought of danny. >> there's lots of practical advice in the words of amus, not in danny. amus says at one point, if you want to do research, it's a good idea to be in a permanent state of underemployment, it is better to waste hours than to end up wasting years. >> yes, this is very good advice. >> giving yourself time to think, don't rush around being busy. i can tell you how many people i've met who were terribly busy and thought they were important as a result, and it doesn't follow. it's crucial. can we turn for a minute to some of their ideas. >> sure. >> what you describe in the book is a process in which stay start working first of all on how people behave, how they make judgments and what these people do is to say, well, you know, economics has become a very deductive discipline, you make certain asermingses which no one really understands which sound very plausible and they make lots of deductions and what they do is look at experiments which show that actually people don't behave like that. they study behavioral biases and let

, and he thought he had to be kept in the game. and apart from that, he was unmarried. he was a wealthy man. when bracken came and said winston is in trouble, he needs, well, in dollars today, it was more than a million dollars. he took out his pen and signed a check for the entire amount. that much was known. and he asked for nothing in return. you will find this more or less in the official biography, but what isn't in the official same sort ofe thing happened in june 1940. within weeks of churchill becoming prime minister and leading the struggle, he found he could not pay his bank interest bills, his tax in june 1940. and he had a special statement of his bank account drawn up. andave it to bracken brendan bracken took it to strakosch and strakosch wrote a check. it was the equivalent of about $300,000. not a fact that is known. but these two literally kept churchill in the game. and i said i have not quite finished with calder because he comes back in the war. he comes over to hollywood again. people thought it was a strange m

when he talks about his wife. >> i thought that was real and from the heart and i thought it might have been the highlight of the old speech when he spoke about the importance of his wife, his best friend. clearly got choked up. i'm not sure how his mother-in-law felt, mrs. robinson. she didn't get a shout out. the daughter and mother reacted from the heart. the other thing i would say is when he talked about race relations in this country and he said, you know, it's not cool that we place some people as more american than others or we only have a hard-working white middle-class. the minority and others trying to live off the vine. he is touching on something that is very real, especially at this moment. >> after eight years of being president, it's more real than ever. >> a couple observations. the echo. it really disrupted his deliver delivery. he's a wonderful speaker but if they didn't test that echo first, it was hard to watch at some points. there was a line in there that stuck out for me. he said "if something needs fixing, then lace up your shoes and do something." he said organ

he thought that was a good war. as he looked back on it comes he thought that there were possibilities they could have been defeated without warfare. my instinct is that doesn't sound right. he became very distraught and 91 because he believed that what ronald reagan had done was perfectly fine. but you build up an army so you don't use it. that's the whole point of the military nobody messes with you and giv. they spent the last three years of his life arguing that the republicans were going to -- this is a fiasco that would take a generation to get out of and this is not where we should be going. >> what is his lasting impact? >> he will either be remembered fully or forgotten. we will either remember him for preserving great things were forget him and remember the people he preserved. so in that sense he would be fine with that if he played the role of making us remember burt and he would be totally fine with that. but there is an element and this is what i ended the book with. if i started with this, no one woul

he is a deeply thoughtful man who is courageous in his thinking. by that i mean we live in a time where as you know politics are deeply polarized, people get arrested, jailed and worse for thinking thoughts that don't converge with the mainstream and up to 12 stands out for willingness to take the worst and original positions on flashpoint issues in our time. one of the things lisa didn't mention which is highly relevant in understanding after 12's worldview is he was born into the days of the world we are living in today, 19 - 1971 when his country united arab emirates was founded. he has grown up as the region has modernized. the foreign minister was assassinated, at 6:00, that searing experience clearly informs his awareness of the intolerance of islamic radicalism. is exploration of life as a muslim and father two young sons shapes this narrative in this book. what i thought i would do is start by asking to talk about how you came to write this book, what motivated you and what you are trying to accomplish. this is not a theological -- it is mu

i thought there's no way. the way he treats me, there's no way he could have hurt his wife. >> reporter: tina also noticed that eric kept photos of pegye in every room of the house. she could not imagine that a man who had killed his wife would want to see her face everywhere. eric was really the answer to all your problems for awhile, wasn't he? >> yeah. he was. >> reporter: so you weren't too anxious to question him. >> no, i believed him. >> reporter: after about six months, he says will you marry me? >> yes. >> reporter: you say? >> i said yes. >> reporter: you don't say no a lot. >> he treated me so good. >> reporter: she admits she knew eric was due to collect more than $2 million in insurance money once he was cleared in his wife's disappearance. everything would work out? >> everything would work out. yep. >> reporter: you were wrong. >> i was definitely wrong. >> reporter: they had been a couple for two years. still not married but living together off and on. one night, tina was showing eric some of h

it so i thought i have filed it away. i went and actually look them up on the web he won the nobel prize and cannot mix even though he was a psychologist. and that's interesting. i have a drinking buddy in berkeley. this how books come about. my drinking buddy drinking buddy is a psychologist a very well-known psychologist, but -- he was friends with danny. one night over drinks i said it's always bothering me is not 2005 that i didn't get the story that i told the story about this baseball and i never got to what they're making mistakes and he said while danny has a house of house up the hill and i was e-mail hook you up. and i must've thought in 2005 that thousand five that nobel prize winners in economics were unapproachable. so i called him up and he sick them up and have coffee. and we started a friendship. we went for long walks in the friendship at that point this a longer answer than you want, but this is the answer, it was based upon me helping him soar through the crisis that he was experience writing his book't

they thought, as isaac newton thought, that light is a series of particles. so he submits his essay, and on this panel as a judge is a mathematician who says, yeah, this looks elegant but i know it's wrong. what am i going to do? i'm going to take these equations and i'm going to see if they predict anything that i know cannot be true. and he found something. he found that if you were to take a round object, a circular object, and take it into a dark room and cast a light on it, that in the center of the shadow of that object there would be a spot of light. now, that is obviously ridiculous. a shadow is darkest at its center. but also on the panel was an experimentalist. and he said, well, you know, i never thought to do that experiment. let me take a round object into a darkroom, cast a shadow, and see if the spot of light is there. and what do you think he saw? the spot of light was there. so that phenomenon became known as poussaint's spot, because he discovered it in the equations, although he was attempting to hate on the theory, right? so albert einstei

dana, the three we thought, we speculated on. i thought maybe immigration as well. tpp seems to be the one. we knew that was coming. >> definitely. i think hillary clinton, had she won, would have done similar actions. everybody on the trail said it was dead from bernie sanders, hillary clinton, donald trump. i don't remember anyone else on the republican side saying that. i think that was likely to happen. the next policy. you do not american taxpayers, ngos, nongovernmental organizations, that would counsel on family planning for abortions for specifically. that doesn't mean you couldn't do contraception planning but abortion in particular. george w. bush had back in place as well as previous republican presidents. president obama rescinded that on his first day in office and donald trump has restored it. for the pro-life community which is going to have its march this saturday, they will have something to be very happy about. >> i think this was a strong move and very consistent. the one thing we've said is he's going to do this rate he has a movement across the

they still thought bernie had a chance. and i was like, oh, no, they're going to be in a popularity contest? turns out it didn't come out good for her. >> seth: no. they liked the people that are having fun. >> it's the tuxedo. [ laughter ] >> seth: now, the other thi this netflix special. this is very exciting. but you did it before the election, obviously. >> yeah. >> seth: is there things now based on the result you that wish were in there or do you -- are you happy with it? >> i mean you -- every time you tape comedy you want to do it the next day just because you're like oh, man, you know so much more every time. but there's a lot of stuff that i still think holds up because i try to write from more so the tone of the country, not necessarily what's exactly happening. >> seth: right. and you mentioned your brother is a police officer. >> yes. >> seth: and that's affected how you're dealing with him? >> well, yeah. i only see him thanksgiving. and even then i'm like i'm reaching for the potatoes. [ laughter ] he doesn't

a good chunk of republicans thought they would win. >> you sound like you thought they would win. >> no. no, a difference between did i think we would governor to win or win to magnitude we did? i thought we could pick off -- we had us winning michigan by two-tenths a point but that's nothing that your putting in the bank. so i thought that the momentum was there. but also we had dish had been through '12 and i remember on elect day, the romney people just convinced that we were going to pull this out and there's -- >> you should have called me. >> could have taken the call. >> we had to tell the president the night before that everything was okay. >> i think that when you have been through that. it's a lot harder -- i lost an election in 1994 by two votes on election night. so until i see that raw data, i don't put a win into a win. your saw eric cantor going, randy forbes, other incumbents who are were told you got this, and now they're a former member of congress. so you can feel good, the data feels good. -- the investment we made a data was worth it because one thing that we kne

>> seth: right. >> and i thought, "geez, i have to go to confession." i thought, "wait a minute. why don't i just confess some things now that may or may not happen?" [ laughter ] >> seth: and get it out of the way. >> get it out of the way, figuring if they don't, i've got credit. [ laughter ] >> seth: right, there you go. >> yeah, if nothing happens, and it's a dull night, i go, "well, i got one or two in the bank." >> seth: yeah. [ light laughter ] it's very forward thinking. >> yes. >> seth: people might not know this, because he's certainly one of -- he's an american icon, which is mr. rogers. >> yes. >> seth: mr. rogers shot his show in pittsburgh. >> yeah. >> seth: he was a pittsburgh icon. >> i thought you were gonna say, "he shot the [ bleep ] in pittsburgh." i was gonna say -- [ light laughter ] that was not a way. >> seth: that was a good description of mr. rogers. then we can sort of shoot the [ bleep ] with his puppets. >> yeah, yeah. [ light laughter ] >> seth: but you were on the crew on the mr. rogers show. >> yeah. well, i worked at the pbs you did everything. yo

because i think jose thought that life was about winning. and probably it was not as important how you got there. >> i think the parents lost control of them, in part because they were in a culture where money can buy you anything, not just the bmw or the designer jeans. it can buy you a free pass out of trouble. >> when poor kids do a burglary, like they go to their neighbor's house and take the big screen tv, they go to juvenile court or they go on probation or something like that. when rich kids do it, they go to the psychiatrist. so, i'm fairly certain that that was part of their court-ordered treatment for their burglary problem. >> all i know is that they both got probation. they gave the stuff back and i think it was shortly thereafter, they moved down to beverly hills and left the calabasas area, and jose kind of said, "let's distance ourselves from the calabasas crowd." >> there are people, a great number of people, who think that you two are spoiled brats. what do you say to them? >> i don't know that there's anything that i can sa

same, theyt feel the thought it was a failure. they thought that they among other authors who are ready now called the price of reconstruction resulted in jim crow. it resulted in over 100 years of black disenfranchisement. they call that price too high. a shamefulwas capitulation, or the beginning of one on the part of united dates. it began with generous terms. done, i do said and believe that appomattox will continue to reign as an american historical memory as a symbol of our past renewal. -- our myths are so powerful, if you look at the nurse behind a myth, it is hard to shake the idea. as a historian of bread, that is the truth. at thes appropriate close of these centennial ceremony to revisit appomattox. surrender is the all about, to appreciate the into the lasting months of the war and into reconstruction. see the contingency, feel the urgency behind it. the principle of this war much ins the soldiers who fought the populations that supported them. no one knew if the war was ever going to end. this talk that i giving, tha

and i thought ok, what do a have on mary? she was the oldest and abigail looked up to her but what else is there about her. did she have any ideas? so i went to the albany institute of history and art. and there is a wonderful collection there. and among the letters that they letter wheres a she sends to abigail, don't you think it is silly that men think that we don't have the same intellect that they have? today, that may seem obvious to us. but at the time, that is anything but obvious. infact, everyone presumed europe and in the colonies that a woman was given two things. and intellect and a uterus. and if she used her mind, if no wonder she couldn't have children. and if she were children, well, then, no wonder she was so silly and could only think about shopping. because she had always used her one instrument. so mary says this and is speaking about the on gendered mind. i realized i was to learn a lot more about her thoughts, as well as abigail and elizabeth on the powers of women. the rights of women -- the intellectu

and i always thought that's another thing. one of the things i love most about writing is creating rhythms. it's fun to do it in dialogue, but it's also fun to do it in a column. >> when -- do you think there's a connection between that love of music and, well, you've just explained one thing, the commonality of tempo and sort of tone, but politically speaking and literarily speaking, your interest in folk music in particular strikes me as having a continuity with your interest in politics, strangely enough. >> well, you know, i knew pete seeger, and he was a real jerk. i'm sorry, he was. and he once said it's impossible to write a right-wing folk song. [laughter] >> that's not a jerky thing to say. >> and i immediately said to him , okie from miscoegy. of course, one of the greatest honors of my life was merle haggard when he won the national hue hannitys award, the kennedy center honor, was asked who he wanted to write the tribute to him, he said either dolly parton or joe klein. [laughter] happily, they said, no, dolly's go

what are your thoughts? >> you know what? we were down in the jungle, and most of the protesting was peaceful and stuff, but everybody i talked to, so, how did you vote? i didn't. well, why are you talking? [laughter] like, where was this four months ago? greg: right. >> this support for hillary wasn't there, they didn't come out in droves like this, they didn't -- greg: true. they're whining after the fact. >> you missed it, you know? i mean, i get it, you want to hear your voices herald, but it's so confusing like you didn't vote. greg: yes. >> i mean, we talked to a lot of people. you know, it wasn't everybody, of course, but literally every other person i talked to didn't vote. i didn't want to vote, blah, blah, blah. so you really don't -- in my opinion, if you don't vote, you don't necessarily have a voice in it. quick with the celebrities, like madonna, obviously, you lost your singing voice -- greg: right. >> so my challenge would be instead of singing songs no one listens to anymore, why don't you run for office, why

. >> that is what i thought i heard. i added the hat. do you like the old time hat. >> cute. >> i have ear traps. >> but mike, this is post, polar plunge i think for you to put this on, to warm you up >> yes. >> you look like you will rob a 7-eleven. >> we have moved to north wildwood or some staffers call it north wood, all right. look at how this snow is sticking to everything. how funky is this for a snowstorm. back of the sign all the way down and it is like, look, if you pack it up like snowball it stays, very sticky snow. it is almost made out of mapel syrup. do you like that. >> that is cool. >> fredrick doesn't do that. >> how about this sign, here we go. you see, it is sticking to everything. here we go, mike. i didn't even plan this. polar plunge. >> yeah. >> look at the that. >> maybe you can to two in a row, sea isle on the 18th and come down to north wildwood on the 25th. >> yes. >> then you can go to karate school. >> they have a lot of snow here in north wildwood. this is deepest we have seen yet. look at these steps. give

i thought, you know, just let it go. i'd rather have them doing medicine and take the risk. >> right. part of the -- a lot of people blame a lot of the cost of medicare, health in general on fraud, but i think it's -- i would call it perverse incentive instead of fraud. the perverse incentive, if you come in and you're a medicare patient, you see a doctor -- if you did, you came in to see a doctor, they have no incentive to undercharge you because you have insurance. private insurance, if you have private insurance, nobody undercharges you because you're not paying. >> like a divorce, no incentive to make them resolve early. make them fight. >> as a patient, you don't seem to care for the price, neither does the doctor because no one's paying. >> your program, your proposal, first of all, one of the most popular things is in obamacare, i mean, a lot of people don't like it, a lot of people like -- is the fact you have pre-existing conditions and you'll be covered. does your program have that? >> right. in the insurance m

what are your thoughts on the confirmation hearings? caller: good morning, my first thought is relative to cory booker's actions during the jeff sessions hearing. i am a long-standing democrat, 28 years, i found it appalling that he would take that forum to push his own political agenda. same with marco rubio during the tillerson hearings. he did the same thing. foray have had retaliation how he was treated by donald trump during the primary. think thebooker, i democratic party needs to realize that they have pushed a way a lot of their constituents. i voted for donald trump. to think that the russian impact -- overwhelming impact on the overall election, what about all the things the dnc had done to bernie sanders? the collusion between the media? they have pushed the democratic party away, the democrats themselves and that is my comment. host: ok. arlington, virginia, republican line. what was the key moment for you in the confirmation hearings this week? caller: how are you this morning? the key point for me is that every person that

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[applause] we pay a penalty for such thought. i was just recently reminded of schwerner, goodman, and chaney. they sit particularly close to my own feelings and thoughts because i was one of the voices , that was raised in recruiting those young students to participate in our rebellion. amy: david goodman, andrew's brother, is here today. >> i'm sure of it. he's always at the right places. but i think that there are those kinds of extremes that will be experienced in the struggle. the real nobility of our existence is, are we prepared to pay that price? and i think once the opposition understands that we are quite prepared to die for what we believe -- [applause] that death for a cause does not just sit with isis, but sit with people, workers, people who are genuinely prepared to push against the theft of our nation and the distortion of our constitution. and for many of us, no price is too great for that charge. [applause] and we have great history to call upon. i mentioned a few before, but we still got a few left. i want to ta

i just thought, these are people that are... i can't trust any of them is what i thought. so i said why not trust you guys, let's go. also, they offered me

i thought i had a fan. i came out, thought maybe i was going to sign a "playbill" or something. and he said, "hey, did you go on one afternoon for "sugar down billy hoke." i said, "yes, i did." he said, "that was the worst thing i have ever seen in my entire life." >> stephen: how old were you at this point? >> 18, 19 years old. >> stephen: and you kept going. good for you. >> and here w ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: you're on broadway. this is broadway, technically. and now you're in the new "live by night," with ben affleck. your second ben affleck movie, "argo." >> that's right. >> stephen: sees sort of becoming the matt damon to your ben affleck. >> he is, yeah. >> stephen: i understand you gained a lot of weight for this movie. how many of the l.b.s did you put on? >> i put on 40 pounds. >> stephen: what! 40? how did you do it? like fun? >> it was fun. it was a lot of fun. >> stephen: was it like workout or just stuff your face. >> just stuff my face, beer-- lots of beer. bagel, pasta. i would have a beer by the bedside table and i'd wake up in the middle of the nigh

and people thought iq was like muscular strength. you could measure people's iq and you could find people could buy people flow iq and give them exercises like taking under irish children and giving them good food next or size may become stronger. they found found repeatedly they could raise children's iq very substantial substantially. that notion moved to america which was a much more of a calvinist country. and it changed. the notions became in america that iq is something fixed forever. if you if you had it you had this capacity of it could never change. there something to that clearly some people are quicker witted than others and it seems intrinsic with little kids but there's a great variability. except einstein was born in any other family he would necessarily have gotten that humor with his sister. and if he hadn't had a sort of training he had at the university and the ability to step out and he failed his first exam even working in the patent office for a few years. einstein once said that if he had gone straight back to a

so that is-- i hadn't thought build that. but i think it's really interesting what you are saying. >> bob gates has said to me and he worked for as many presidents as you've written about, bob gates said to me once that the central quality for president is to have the right temperment. it's that more than almost anything, as you know better than i do. i think it was walter littmann and others who said franklin roosevelt had a second class mind and first class temperment. >> right. >> who said that first, oliver wendel homes. >> no, oliver wendel homes. when he saw franklin roosevelt and he said ah, wes, first class temperment, second class int select. i don't think he had a second class intellect but he had a first class temperment. it means you have to be confidence-- confident but you have to have some sense that you may not know things all the time. you know you will make mistakes. franklin roosevelt said about himself i know i will bat three out of four times i will get a hit. or maybe one out of two times and that would

ekg, your thoughts? >> really just watch and see this day in american political history, see the transfer of power and see president bush there and president carter and president clinton. and then hillary clinton there who had hoped to be in this exact position and many thought she would be. and to see everyone just trying to put the best interests of the country, i think it was a special time. >> i thought one of the nice, funny things that happened at the luncheon, right before their luncheon when donald trump was signing the nominations, the executive orders. nancy pelosi is handed, by donald trump, the pen that he used to sign for elaine chao, happens to be the wife of senator mitch mcconnell. he said this might be more appropriate for the leader. the next pen that was handed to her was the one that was signed for tom price, the new health and human services secretary who will try to undo obamacare, the signature initiative of the previous president. >> that is irony. >> who she does not get along wi

i thought that was interesting. thaty be wonder how was it he heard that thomas jefferson was the person who drafted the declaration of independence. ? i was able to go to yale and look in their archives, they have a copy of ezra stiles diary. recorded in his diary that he died in company with john langston of new hampshire. john links didn't a member of the continental congress. --ston told stiles this is what happens when you hear things transmitted by word of mouth. clearly, stiles clarified jefferson's last name. that is how the word got passed along. that interesting, we know langston is not a first hand source. he was not a member of the continental congress in the summer of 1776. he arrived a couple months later. he must've heard it from other people who were members of the congress. stile's announcement was a significant one because it was the first one. of do not see a flurry mentions of thomas jefferson's connection to the declaration of independence years following 17 83. as he was preparing to embark for

that she is thought about blowing up the white house. unfortunately she wasn't the only hollywood snowflake protesting. trump's presidency this weekend. laura ingraham is here, she will weigh in on that and also tonight... >> i'm going to come out here and tell you the facts as i know them. we will do our best to correct them if we make mistakes. as i mentioned the other day, it is a two-way street.e there are many mistakes the media makes all the time. >> sean: sean spicer held a briefing today. he vowed to be truthful but he also said it's a two-way street when it comes to the media. that and more as we continue from our nation's capital, "hannity" on the road, straight ahead. step one: point decisively with the arm of your glasses. abracadabra. the stage is yours. step two: choose la quinta. the only hotel where you can redeem loyalty points for a free night-instantly and win at business. the markets change... at t. rowe price... our disciplined approach remains. global markets may be uncertain... but you can feel confident in our inv

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so thoughtful. so thoughtful. and the draw. it's a custom but i doubt too many of them were written in this manner. he -- as a matter of fact i called him and thanked him, it. l oo >> rtte l h oav presidenve left for the next president. that one looks a lot longer than the ones that i have seen. >> it was long it was complex, it was thoughtful, and it took time to do it and i appreciated it and i called him and thanked him. >> reporter: was there something he said in that letter that surprised you? >> well i think, nothing that surprised me but it was stated beautifully, and i'm representing a lot of people and i'm carrying on a very important tradition. and just coado a great job. he wants me to do a great job. he said something that was interesting to me. he said if i thought your health care plan was going to be better obamacare, i would s it and i believe he would. i believe he would. >> reporter: what was that car ride like to the capitol? you got in the car with the president who was about to leave, and -- >> the amazing

i thought, you know, wow. i mean, "beaner" was the nicest of those things, and i had never heard such things in my life. it was... >> hinojosa: well, did that immediately kind of make you start wanting to separate from your mexicaness? a little bit of self-hate... >> no. >> hinojosa: because a lot of people have that self-hatred. >> i know. >> hinojosa: "i'm going to deny it; i can pass, i can fit in. let me just put the fact that i'm mexican and speak spanish back here, because it's a lot easier to not deal with that." >> there's so many things to hate yourself about. ( laughing ) you know, why add that? >> hinojosa: what a philosopher! i mean, you know? ( laughing ) >> no, i mean, just... i just think there's so many opportunities in this life to attack yourself, and you know, it was a... it was matter of utter, absolute pride for my father. now, you know, it's a big laugh getter on tour when i talk about my father's mexican pride, but it was so profound that my father took credit for every invention being m

they thought-- the other crew members thought they had died. they had not, but as they came to that ship nearly sank twice, but just at dusk on the second day of this voyage she entered that chesapeake. about 1:00 a.m. the look out from the stranded minnesota saw this strange shape in the darkness and the minnesota's skipper said: all on board. we have a friend that was stand by us in our hour of trial. on board felt nothing of the sort. at the time he was actually appalled. with this ludicrous little pie plate the best but north could come up with against the monster that just killed two of this finest ships in the world. a union sailor was trying to tug the minnesota as its sandbar and wrote the next morning was a fine line, clear and bright. there was the little monitor flat on the water like a turtle. we all commenced to comment and make fun. that was certainly the thought on the merrimack when she came to finish off the minnesota. as a captive steamed out to meet her he called to the captain: i will stand by you to the last and then he sho

less thoughtful, less deep, don't know what it meant when it was different but it was different, the sentences got shorter and punchier as paragraphs got smaller, it changed again, people are writing prose on their cell phones. it is changing the way people read and think about was way off your subject. >> host: not at all. let's skip -- i know you worked at several newspapers, you mentioned them in your early talk but i don't want to go through each of them. what is the general drift in your career? how did you move from the connecticut state house or connecticut news service. >> you can get all kinds of small gigs, because nobody else is doing it. faugh so we had a normal suburban and day had antiques stores.were h they just wanted to cover the antiques. that wasn't substantial but tim was there. and in your times finally asked me for the of regional coverage so i started to write for them. so they asked if i wanted to come down and apply for the job they said we could get this for you. i was excited and the phone rang again it was a strange voice that said you don't know me but i

thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us. trump'snalists, donald tweets often seem like the gift that keep on giving. in the business world, they sometimes cause a stir. >> away all week for a donald trump tweet story and then several come on at once. could it be the first wave of the trump affect to influence the car industry? ford motor company is canceling plans to build a front in mexico. the company will instead invest 700 million in a flat rock assembly plant in michigan to create 700 new jobs there. factorymake the capable of producing electrified an anonymous vehicles and an electric suv with an estimated range of 300 miles bills of the plan. ford was criticized by u.s. president-elect a donald trump when it announced it was moving production of its small focus card to mexico. those plans are unchanged. german unemployment declined in december as a further pickup in hiring pushed the bloc's biggest economy closer to full employment. the jobless rate is at 6%. analysts noting that is due to solid growth in europe's big

i'm not agnostic about but thought about who we will be better served to meet trice a month as a full body and maybe our committees are not doing we we need to do but spent a couple of hours what has traditionally gone to finance and programs as a full body food for thought let's check in on that formally and informally we can see ahead and thank you very much fewer confidence and support and supervisor president breed the floor is yours. >> thank you. congratulations chair peskin i want to say i appreciate your thoughts and leadership on this body i also am really existed about the opportunity to have an independent oversight body similar to the you budget analyst for the board of supervisors that could really help us to dissect a lot of the layers of what we're doing in terms of providing funding resources to some of our many transportation projects and i know this body also does strategic planning but i think that taking the opportunity to have a robust decision about strategic planning pea how we look at the bigger picture that is exactly what you're talking about i think could be

clearly they thought he was disturbed. they sent him for further study and he was taken for mental health evaluation and according to the brother he was recently being treated. but what law enforcement believes here as he checked himself in his luggage on the plane in anchorage alaska this morning flew domestically to minneapolis and then on his way to fort lauderdale. he had put a handgun apparently interlocked box within his luggage and he checked that in anchorage which you are allowed to do as long as you let the airline know your gun is in there and your ammunition is separated according to witnesses when he got his luggage at the baggage claim here at terminal two which serves primarily delta and air canada he got in the baggage claim area and got access to his luggage, removes the gun and goes in the bathroom at the gun and ammunition, was the gunman comes out and just start shooting complete strangers in about four minutes of absolute terror and carnage in panic. five people killed, shot in the head, eight others w

i thought the rest of the country. i thought the balance was struck pretty well, except the last picture of them holding hands and walking down the steps. i think that was pretty —— a little more on the chinese side and something they might regret down the line. —— chummy. something they might regret down the line. -- chummy. do you think that might ruffle feathers?” line. -- chummy. do you think that might ruffle feathers? i think the next time donald trump says something controversial, he has announcements today on banning refugees from muslim countries coming in, that will cause controversy here. i think that picture will get relayed a little too often for theresa may's team's liking. ithink too often for theresa may's team's liking. i think apart from that of security and trade issues, the press conference went pretty well. i think her speech went down reasonably well, although some people disagree with the content of it. until that last picture writing she was walking that line reasonably well. looking a