Screenplay that was made into a movie. Mmhmm . Hinojosa . People were like, che guevara . I know. Hinojosa im not going to touch it. I know, its huge. Its huge. Hinojosa huge. Yeah. I mean, part of the process that i went through writing it was to put the legend aside, you know . You know, because obviously, i wasnt there when he took that trip, and i had to find a way into the film. Like, what is it that i will contribute to this movie . And you know, through discussions with the director, we decided, you know, this should be a coming of age story. Its a young man who comes from a sheltered, middleclass home, who discovers because of the beauty of the road, he discovers the inner Political Animal that he had. And thats. You know, i did that, and everyone does that at one point in their lives. Hinojosa in fact, i wrote downi said, yoknowyou actually. For anyone whoomes into the motorcycle diaries thinking that theyre going to see che guevara the one that they know from the posters and
Are you gonna run for president . I think i just got an f from you actually. This is over. David fahrenthold welcome. Great to be here so a reporter in 2016, who people like and admire laughs youre like half unicorn, half bigfoot. It wont last. No it couldnt possibly be. Were not in a business that people like or admire very much these days. Were kind of between child molesters and irs investigators, right . The journalism business has seen better times. Right worse than Congress Actually right. What happened . How did we get here . How did we get to such a low ebb . What did we do wrong . I thought we were doing the peoples work . Well theres a lot of us in the business right. Some of us do it well. Some of us do it poorly. But mostly were a good foil for everybody right . Politicians on both sides see us as when things arent going their way they find its a convenient way to blame us. Right but the public believes them. They can blame us all they want but the public actually seems rec
Thats right. As we would say in the south bronx, all that and a bag of chips. Hinojosa so a lot of people, when they think of the south bronx, 1960s, 70s, when you were growing up. Right, right, right. Hinojosa . Their image is of a place that was entirely desolate, that was, you know, in destruction. Right, right. Hinojosa but for you, it was a totally different reality. Well, there was that element to it. But i always say that i was very fortunate to have grown up in that time period, because the culture, as far as latino and African American culture, particularly afro puerto rican, afro cuban culture, and obviously African American culture, were in full force in the streets, particularly in the summertime, because we had rumbas in the park all the time. Thats when youd hear people playing drums, conga drums, and playing this beautiful rhythm. Hinojosa now, im going to stop you right there, because i bet some people are saying, they had what in the park . Rumbas. Right, rumbas. Hinoj
audience cheering and applause mister secretary, welcome. Thank you very much evan. [evan] an honor to have you here. Its great to be here. Let me ask you to grade the nations Transportation System dont grade on a curve, i want hard grading like you used to get at davidson, and at nyu law school, i want you to do elite grading here. If you had to assess the health and the well being of the nations Transportation System, what grade would you give it . Well, i think itd be about a d. [evan] itd be a d . Yeah. You run your department, really . Youre a hard selfgrader. Well, you know what, there are a lot of reasons why and frankly, none of them have to do with me. [evan] you inherited it. audience laughs is that what it is . Yeah, exactly, i inherited this problem. anthony laughing but you own it, so [anthony] i do own it. What are the reasons that you would give this system a d . Well, there are three basic reasons. One, we are underinvesting at a scale that is massive in this country. W
And there are probably a lot of people who say, oh, i know that theres diabetes; i know somebody who has diabetes; i know that in some people it can be really dangerous, in other people, they can manage it. So im a little confused. So what is the headline . What do we need to know about diabetes that is central to the issue . Well, the first thing, maria, is that diabetes is a Major Health Care problem around the world. This is not just in this country, it is everywhere. Hinojosa but its not something that you see, right . Isnt that one of the problems . I mean, you can be living with diabetes and be fine. Mmhmm. Actually, it is estimated that perhaps, for type 2 diabetes, which is the most common type of the disease ten times more frequent than type 1 diabetes, for instance people only have the disease for ten or 15 years without knowing that they have the condition until they manifest the first symptoms, which would be perhaps, like, frequent urination, increased thirst, fatigue, tir