No one at this point is chart running against him. Josh romney considered and he was one of many people including jon huntsman junior who is asked to run against mike lee who declined to at that point you have a prominent banker and jonathan junior to announcing announced. The short answer is if you cant beat them, join them. I would like you to talk a little bit about the seniors and juniors relationship as lukewarm at best on the huntsman side of course. The last time i actually saw them together was during a dedication of a wing of the cancers to toot just a few months ago when john junior was on the stand at the time and that was one of the last times i have seen him with his father. Do you know what the relationship is . Sure an impact if you look at jonathan junior and senior are very close and they still talk every day. Whats complicated for them during the 2012 campaign because while they wanted to talk to each other every day and they did for the most part they had to be careful not to talk about the campaign and Campaign Finance laws because father was running this multimillion dollar super pac. But they talk every day. Senior is very proud of his son, very supportive of his son. This is a question he didnt really ask but im going to answer it anyway which is the idea of how the senior reacts to the idea of some of his kids or grandkids may be taking a different tact when it comes to the mormon religion and senior is very proud of his kids and talks about it doesnt matter necessarily what church they go to, that anyone would be proud to sit with jon huntsman junior and he said person. We talked to jon huntsman senior per couple of hours and he was a huge cheerleader of the sun. He wrote his own biographer he and he made an applaud for his son being president some day. He is holding out hope and they are very close. I dont have a question. I just have a comment. First up i loved your book, congratulations. Its a great book from beginning to end that i was a little disappointed about two things that are not here about romney and huntsman but someone need to talk about is here the olympian jimmy shea and his father was also an olympian. He talked about him in the book and he deserves it. Now that the lights are up i can see. Thank you very much for being here serve. I recall seeing both of you on the campaign trail in 2012 with mitt romney so thank you for being here. He ran for senate and it didnt work out. I think for people in the city of utah we knew who he was. I think its hard to realize how popular that made him. Heres an example. He was in peoples sexiest man alive issue. That is not a joke. And if you ever want to make them embarrassed you can point that out to him. I think what happened is we have olympians who helped him on all of his campaigns after that because it showed a level of hatred to some and a way to he led a massive organization. I was in college in massachusetts when mitt romney ran against ted kennedy and of course he seemed to be running a times to the left of ted kennedy. Obviously of course this is the same guy who for the 2012 election made the speech about how he was a severely conservative governor. In terms, its interesting you are talking about how he wants to be his father and he wants to follow in his fathers footsteps into politics. In your estimation is that the ambition thats driving him much more than the ideology is and he is willing to kind of move around the ideology in order to achieve the personal goal . With some quotes in the book from some Campaign Aides who set for him is a pragmatic guide. Hes a business guy and a lot of times when he ran for politics he said what i have to do to succeed . Lets go. Authenticity is a huge part of this so we talked about his run in massachusetts, you have to respond to a massachusetts audience and thats going to be more moderate. The interesting part of 2012 is you say he was a conservative but go back and watch that first day with barack obama for he trounces barack obama. He doesnt seem that conservative there. Thats the more moderate middle of the road from me that he probably wanted to be but when youre in a primary you have to do what it takes to win. We talked with jon huntsman junior and that part frustrated him traded you are pulled in so many Different Directions in the national primary. Can you imagine you were going to run for two years in your partys nomination and every single group is going to try to pull you to there is . You are trying to get every single delegate. Thats before you broadly talk to the nation . Thats tough. This is off topic at the Democratic NationalCommittee Bank donald trump are entering the race because the race needed its scariest candidate. They question our here. Im a fan of jon huntsman junior and i thought it did a good job as governor but he kind of has a history of being a quitter. He quit high school. He quit the governorship before his term was over and he quit ambassadorship. He doesnt seem to be able to catch fire in the race. I think he is very well spoken and very intelligent but what is his fatal flaw in what is the problem . He would probably say quittor is the wrong word. He looked for the opportunities that would come toward him but he has set himself talking about being an intellectual person he is a policy wonk at heart. He is not a campaigner. He is not someone who likes to go out and say what people want to hear and in fact its in the book Jon Huntsmans favorite part of running for president was the debate he did with Newt Gingrich which you then even his daughters were falling asleep in. I would also say part of the difference between what jon huntsman juniors career was as a summer might mitt romney, jon huntsman junior balance between government business and working in his fathers business and Government Service in the assured by the fact that the president is going there for four years. We see this often in politics. A cabinet members not going to be there long or ambassador is not going to be there long periods, and washington d. C. Someone there for two years and leave. The amount of time you spend in china when he was working for barack obama was longer than the ambassador before and after him and so its not like he was in a hugely unusual step of the criticism you brought up actually hurt him when they were considering someone to run the olympics. Successfully ran a business and jonathan junior who has bounced around. That worked against him. I think politically its a little different though. Will take a couple more questions. In 2016 there are 15, 20, 25 republican candidates seeking the candidacy may be 30 with donald trump in the lead. In the july 2016 Republican Convention we see a deadlocked convention. Can you see a scenario where a romney movement emerges because heres an individual whos been bringing together candidates who just yesterday said the number one mistake in my campaign in 2012 is not reaching out to minorities. Someone has got the money, Organization Name recognition a head of the party can you see a scenario. As a reporter i would love to see a deadlocked. We actually have that in the book. When he looked earlier for this year he said i bet i could win the nomination but im dont know if im best suited to challenge someone like hillary and 10. When he talked to people and his supporters and said he wasnt going to run when asked this question is there any way that he could never see it and he said not at this time or something to that effect. He loved that little room and politicians do that all the time. We have heard that if its a scenario where the Establishment Republicans are doing well and it looks like someone like senator ted cruz from texas is the frontrunner then met romney would consider it. I think thats interesting to think, that its hard for politicians to get it completely out of their blood no matter what they have been through so there is a chance. I dont think its a good chance ive heard senator bennett say if ted cruz gets the nomination the Republican Party may win a few counties in mississippi they will be disaster for a party like it was in 64. Senator bennett and are very close. One last question and then we will get to the book signing. Anyone else . You went to the mall. Right here, right in front. Jon huntsman senior has been suggested as a potential buyer of the newspaper that he works for. Im wondering what it was like writing a book about a person who may soon be her boss . Sure. Thank you very much. We started this project in november 2013 which was well before jon huntsman senior mike end up being her boss someday and there was this moment where it obviously became more of a chance and we talked about it and we said we are journalists, we are going to let the journalism we have where we go here. Starting to compromise our reporting because someone may or may not be art loss is the wrong move. We dont do that with anyone else. I also would like to take this moment to credit our bosses for not putting pressure on us to change anything. This is the book we wanted to write and we rode it and thats a lot of credit to them because im sure they are going to get more pressure than we are going to get. I hope they are going to get more pressure than we are going to get. [laughter] mats sub four and tom barr, the book is morman rivals. Thank you for being here tonight. [applause] thank you. You can buy copies of the book in the lobby. They will be there in a moment to sign. Thank you so much for coming. [inaudible conversations] speak the u. S. Did achieve improvements in security but nonetheless it depends on how it ends and heres where i hesitate when i increasingly interrogate my seven question myself. Its also possible that five years down the road we will back in civil war in afghanistan. I see this slowly emerging in the country. The prospect is much worse than the taliban. The taliban is deeply entrenched in and if he did so with we induct five years down the road in the civil war and anna stan and new safe havens or the taliban and isis then i would say radio talkshow host hugh hewitts look is the queen about the political career and ambitions of Hillary Clinton. The nixon president ial library he talked about her president ial campaign and what a future Clinton Administration could look like. This is an hour. [applause] thank you. Its always a pleasure to visit the Nixon Library and birthplace and a privilege to be invited to speak even in some cases when chris only gives me 15 minutes notice. [laughter] i enjoy the audience thoughtful engaging and respectful. It is a distinct honor to be able to introduce longtime friend and contributed to the Nixon Library, hugh hewitt. My wife and i have been friends of the library for a while. I came of age during the nixon years and have vivid memories of the 1968 Republican National convention, watched on the blackandwhite tv late into the night hoping for his nomination. We have come to learn more about Richard Nixon and the indelible mark he left on our country and the world. As i look at the state of our nation and the world today and i reach into the archives of the 72 campaign nixon now more than ever. We have had the opportunity to meet wonderful people through the library. Hugh and betsy hewitt among them. Hugh is a figure at library and Foundation Programs interviewing authors facilitating Panel Discussions participating in debates and as we saw today conducting his National Syndicated radio show. He served in the Nixon Administrations speechwriter and he was critical in the construction of this facility and for that but debt of gratitude aisle who have been benefiting from it. Hugh hails from ohio claiming to be some form of buckeye. [laughter] he did however choose to purchase his law degree from the hated University Admission michigan, something i do not understand. He is a practicing attorney, professor of law at Chapman University and a remarkable influence on the Republican Party at all levels across the country. He is a frequent guest on nationally Prominent Television shows, networks that would not otherwise have my patronage except for sporting events. Most prominent i believe is being the host of the best talk show in america. He has the most impressive array of guests, senior elected and appointed government officials, authors, opinion writers and national influencers. He hosts an educational series with the president of Hillsdale College and is a graduate level intellectual experience. His style is insightful and engaging. He is respectful, never talking over his guests and i was allowing them to have their say. He provides a platform for those with whom he disagrees as well as those with whom he had raised, drying out from them challenging questions and engaging in an intellectual exchange. It is smart radio and his audience are better informed people. The queen is his recent release. I think we will find beyond the astute analysis of the former secretary of state is a bit of it porch and tell her. Rolling the dice on such a long shot that he might consider a second run for the white house. Hugh the gamble has paid off. I have not yet read the queen holding out for a free copy. [laughter] so it is with great anticipation i welcome to the podium hugh hewitt. [applause] thank you very much. I have been introduced a lot of times. I am very highly honored that he introduced me and philomena and he would make a special trip to the library. They are dear friends at etsy and me. We first met at the Nixon Library at an event where former secretary of defense rumsfeld was the guest of honor and i was interviewing him. I was downstairs and you have to remember i married the daughter of a marine corps colonel. My brotherinlaws were retired marine corps colonel said he would think i would have figured out i was talking to a marine for 20 minutes downstairs with philomena. He was active duty at the time and since retired and i didnt because i was a little dense and then i finally said so wait a minute are you a marine because they have been laying on the ocean side comments in the penalty and comments. I figure you a marine and he said yeah. I said are you active duty as if he was given his age that meant there were going to be a couple of stars on his shoulder and he said yeah. I said are you a general . He said i am very selfeffacing as great military leaders are and i said gosh general ive been rambling on and talking to the commander of the brigade and inking to myself my fatherinlaw were he alive with be so deeply ashamed of me. I have grown to know and love him and respect his service bats and military spouses serving alongside their men and women. Philomena would you stand up and let everyone say hello . [applause] i want to thank the library for having me tonight that i brought along a bag of props which will explain themselves as we go along. I also want to thank my los angeles home, the answer for sale amid a group of which i am prey. We got great sponsors that are here tonight. The money guys, california collects windows. Radio would not exist in america but for terrific sponsors like these and across the United States if you listen to the radio listening to the people who put the radio on because without he would go away. And patronize them but i want to thank my partners at fox. They allow me a great deal of ability to go back and forth across the country and in the last three weeks i have appeared in succession on meet the press, face the nationstate of the union with chuck todd in John Dickerson and jake tapper. That means im not practicing law during that period of time and they overlooked that as i go back and forth. I very much appreciated. Im here to talk about this book, the queen and im holding it up for the benefit of our cspan prints from booktv. The epic and vision of hillary and the coming of the second clinton area theres a law called the loans law. If you watch frank luntz you know that he is the best media analyst in america when it comes to understanding Public Opinion in words that work in frank told me once if you dont say the name of the book seven times you wont sell the book. So im going to be talking about the queen all night long and if i mentioned the queen a lot because frank told me if i dont mention the queen a lot you wont remember the queen and i wont by the queen and with that i will put it aside and come back to the queen a little bit later. [applause] i was downstairs talking with mel and philomena about leadership. Mel serves an extraordinary role assisting people to become leaders and im currently we are going to organize at least nine and as many as 12 debates and we are going to have Media Partners and if a candidate goes to a debate not on our schedule they wont be on our schedule. Their rule that says in order to bring order and if you are going to be her media partner you were going to include conservative media voices, which is what a surprise, what a shock that in the gop president ial primary system you would actually allow someone from their side of the spectrum to ask questions that might be of primary interest to gop primary voters. That does not mean you exclude them and they will not be excluded, great journalist like chuck todd on meet the press or jake tapper of cnn or John Dickerson of cvs. I believe it, Chris Wallace megan kelly and all the rest of ocsla to be doing their turn with vesper at the same time journalists who are understood to be not merely observers of the participants in the process are going to be i am not the moderator, thank god. I love donald trump but i dont want to moderate his debate. Its going to be very hard. Donald trump has been my guest. All of the republicans are the nominees have been my guess on the radio and the one who is the most interesting and entertaining as always donald trump. He colors outside of the lines that he d