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New york times best-selling author and you have the perfect cover for the perfect book. and by the way, i tell the reader that the reader should judge for him or herself after reading the book whether i am, in fact, a giant of the senate. >> another nod to modesty on your part. >> thats the way i look at it, certainly. i sometimes in satire, you use irony. >> ah! im noting that. >> its -- i was going to leave with you that. >> and no relation with the iron range? thats iron with a y at the end? ...

Al franken, giant of the senate by al franken. >> yeah. >> point out im a number one new york times best-selling author and you have the perfect cover for the perfect book. and by the way, i tell the reader that the reader should judge for him or herself after reading the book whether i am, in fact, a giant of the senate. >> another nod to modesty on your part. >> thats the way i look at it, certainly. i sometimes in satire, you use irony. >> ah! im noting that. >> its -- i was going to leave wi...

Out how to spell a word that youve never even heard before? >> i study a couple hours every day for the whole year, and i just try to figure out language patterns and split it into root words so i can see if i can come up with a spelling that makes sense. >> my gosh. you are committed. what did your parents do right in terms of making you such an avid studier? >> well, they just taught me that if you work hard, you can, like, do anything so since i was a good reader, i just became a good speller...

They were very -- whats the right word? processional in the way they walked around, and they really did act like they were british actually. and youre not like that. but this picture on the cover of this book is so deep in levels of satire. you look like paul douglas or phil hart. >> the gravitas. >> the hand out there, the meaningful hand in the foreground and the fireplace in the background so you can be contemplative, and holding the globe. >> the globe shows the global reach of such a giant ...

At bps cooper river plant, employees take safety personally - down to each piece of equipment, so they can protect their teammates and the surrounding wetlands, too. because safety is never being satisfied. and always working to be better. the white house refusing to confirm or even comment on reports that the presidents son-in-law and advisor, jared kushner tried to set up a back channel with russia. lets talk about this and so much more with al franken, the a thor of a brand-new book, "al fr...

"new yorker" profile -- "new york" magazine profile of you which i thought was fascinating and interesting but the part of it that just leapt off the page for me as a reader was, were you and some of your staff folks were quoted in there as saying bernie sanders could get an ary angry on the -- at the voting. >> right. >> about the fate of the people who are trapped in this globalization automation thing. turn certainly did that. oversimplifying, getting angry. you couldnt go that because youre ...

As i mentioned already, we dont say whats classified, whats not classified. what i will tell you, again, is sth that what the president shared was wholly appropriate. the story, the story combined what was leaked with other information and then insinuated about sources and methods. so i wanted to take clear to everybody that the president in no way compromised any sources or methods in the course of this conversation. >> that was h.r. mcmaster, national security adviser, three-star general in th...

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Conversations that happened prior to the election, thats one section. but any kind of conversation that happened after the election has nothing to do with collusion with russia about the election. >> that makes total sense. >> kimberly: right. >> the journalism side is gone. its all about business. its all about click bait. thats like bait and switch in business where you have a headline, in this case, that draws the reader in, the content is something complete be different. in this case, "the w...

Prior to the election, thats one section, but any kind of conversations that happened after the election has nothing to do with collusion with russia about the election? >> thats makes total sense. >> kimberly: right? >> right, look, the journalism side is gun in journalism. its all about -- is gone in journalism. its all about click bait. explain that to the audience. you have a headline in this case that draws the reader in. the content is something completely different. in this case, washingt...