These Tall Buildings outside the reading room. All you could see with sky. So its really a place where the city has grown up around the library. Host weiser called the reading room . Guest the rose family made this reading room in honor of their children when it was renovated in 1998 and during the renovation, every square inch of the surpluses in this room are touched by a. So its really restored to its original splendor. Host do you know about the paintings . Guest deserve murals that we have to actually recreate. They were in such a bad state of disrepair before the renovation. These were created in a studio on canvas and installed here. They are not paying michelangelo style. Host how much of the librarys collection of artifacts are available for people to see . Guest all of them are collections or more than 51 million items and we have all kinds of things from books to manuscript and archival role materials to photographs, prints, and menus, maps, all kinds of materials. Host one of those valuable items as they fear what are we looking at here . Guest this is a gutenberg volume. We have a gutenberg bible in our collections. Many Great Research libraries around the world do. The significance of this bible, which is a two volume set. You see one of the volumes here. This gutenberg bible is the first one to be brought to the United States in the mid19th century. Killing patent. Yes please comes in third followed by a personal look at the life of tv producer andy cohen. Number five is small victories. Next, in and of life care in being mortal followed by the art of asking. Eight, why the russian president intends to consolidate russian powered by taking control of world energy resources. Followed by not that kind of girl. And wrapping up the list what if. A look at this weeks list of nonfiction bestsellers according to the New York Times. In his book, you lie , jack cashill chronicles what he thinks of president obama. Thank you, you, jim. Thank you all for coming out tonight. There are several major religions that believe that the Second Coming will be in jackson county, missouri. They may be right. Okay. Five years and to the obama presidency, here is what liberal constitutional scholar said of the president. Barack obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be. Harsher still, president obama will shortly pass past president Richard Nixon as the worst president ever. If your friends are saying this, imagine what your enemies are saying. The question for the day, and this is something to consider, how is it that a man who wants for his campaign for the presidency comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln . Hunkered down in the white house being compared to tricky dick nixon. Something went wrong in the process. We are here to explain that tonight. Another liberal civil libertarian, longtime Village Voice contributor, that we summed it up best. Obama does not give a damn because he can get away with whatever he wants. I will explore how that came to be. It is a complex question and 1i am i am not fully sure i know myself totally. He had a distinctive upbringing. He asked us to concentrate on his father. [laughter] im joking. Inside joke. Okay. But we missed the real mark. The person we should have been concentrating on is his mother. And she was, like his father, something of a person a person who held america in general contempt. There there is a story he tells that is likely true. She is in indonesia with her second husband, an Indonesian National who works for an oil company. Why dont you come out and you can meet some of your own people. She shouts back, those are not my people. This this is a message he picked up as a young boy. He saw them, he described them as the caricatures of an ugly american. As a mixedrace child she could have given the most solid, but she did not like this country. She never did. That affected him from early on. He comes back and is in something of a tether because he does not no who he is. He does not want to be an american. As to being an africanamerican, he knows no more about that than what he has seen on tv. That is about it in 1968, 69, 70. He tells his friends in school, his father was a prince and his grandfather was the chief of an african tribe. And the story worked on his classmates and almost on himself. But another part of me knew what i was telling them was a a lie, something i constructed from scraps of information i picked up from my mother. For the next 40 years he would continue constructing identities from himself. High school stoner, college marxist, marxist, new york socialist, harvard cosmopolitan, africanamerican or dealer, allamerican president ial candidate. So by the time dreams from my father came out obama had picked up enough postmodern pens walk to rationalize these identity shifts. So even as support called dreams a mixture of verifiable fact, recollection, re creation, invention, and artful shaping. That is a friendly biographer. The character creations and rearrangements in the book are not merely a matter of style devices or compression but are actually substantive now, when lesser memoirists do the same, they get ripped to pieces on oprah. But if you are obama you can make stuff up and get away with it. One of the aids of Hillary Clinton, we did not understand why his politically calculating chameleon nature was never discussed. We were said to be the chameleons, but he changed his life. His early influences, Frank Marshall davis, did not encourage truth telling. Although lovesick although lovesick leftists are not uniquely guilty of lying, they are uniquely guilty of doing it as a political strategy. They are not that hard core. What the problem might be. Watching this guy, the ebola expert for cnn talking about why we cannot ban travel from west africa to the United States, when states, when it would seem like most americans would say, lets ban travel. Travel. He was honest and gave the perfect multicultural answer since liberia was created by american slaves, slavery was essentially responsible for the creation of liberia. We are responsible and have the obligation to open the doors to liberia. That is how multiculturalists think. The problem is, they cannot say that. So they send out guys like the director of cdc on with megan kelly trying to explain why it makes sense but cannot use multicultural logic. He has to use real people logic, and it does not work. And this is fun to watch. He watch. He is saying, well, if we dont open travel we cant help them. Megan says, what about charter flights. He says, commercial airplanes can do something that contract claims, charter planes cannot. Megan says, they fly fly in and out. What is the difference. And he had no answer. That is part of the reason why he became the person he became. Appearance mattered appearance mattered at least as much. The good fortune of growing up talking, thinking, sounding just like a white liberal. This gave him an advantage. And this verified exactly who they were. You hear people actually voicing this on occasion. Michael kinsley. You say what you mean, but you are not supposed to be saying it. Joe biden is the master. I dont know how Jesse Jackson took it. Youve got the first mainstream africanamerican president ial candidate who is articulate and bright and clean and a nicelooking guy im glad i did not say that. I would probably be in san quentin. Another another unwittingly honest revelation, Senate Majority leader harry reid found comfort in obamas having no negro dialect. Anyhow, by anyhow, by the time obama emerges as a National Candidate every newsroom was chock full of people who thought this way. Harder to calculate attitudes toward race, but the collective media indulgence they get the opposite treatment. Very good. Some people here. They asked about that. Black liberals who speak and act and sound and echo what the white liberals say get an incredible pass in americas newsrooms. That has a major factor in making obama who he was and how he could get away with things no one else could. A story october 2007. They they wanted to do a story on obamas days in new york. Given the fact it was the New York Times and obama it would obviously be a puff piece. He would provides no lease, no transcripts, names of friends, addresses, nothing. And then they just move on. , as though it did not matter. That is the way he rolled, and that is the way he rolled with them. Im going to grab a drink year. One second. I have something of a cold. I did not take any Cold Medicine for fear that i would be loopy. That had a lot to do with how he became who he was. And it started right off. Early in the campaign he started to see this in ways that no one else could have. In september 2007 when his candidacy was still a long shot, obama vowed to aggressively pursue preservation of a publicly financed general election. That is a very conscious and firm position. The problem was, once he took the lead he was raising much more money. So in 2,008 and he is never wrong. He never goes back on his word. He still supported the idea of public financing, but the Current System was broken and favored republicans who had become masters at gaming the system. Every deception is justified. Remember, obama does not give a damn because he can get away with whatever he wants. The first person to call him on it was an obscure South Carolina congressman joe wilson. September 9, 2,009. Still a highly popular president who spoke spuriously to a joint session of congress, and there was in the air what might have been called the powerful and obnoxious over of mendacity. And among the lines trotted out that night for the first time was this one. Nothing will require you or your employer to change your coverage. Nothing nothing requires you to change what you have. At the time he said this he may have thought it was true i went back and checked the record. There were serious dissents in major publications that the white house had to be aware of. So the first time we give them a pass. Any number of things, but the claim that his proposed Healthcare System would not ensure Illegal Immigrants is when wilson could hold his tongue no longer. And all hell broke loose. For the first time in about 20 20 years nancy pelosi raised her eyebrows, sitting behind. [laughter] i did i did not think that was possible. [laughter] joe biden, you can here him. Obama loses his place on the teleprompter. And there is a collective gasp. Followed in the schoolyard by, by, im telling, which is exactly what they did. The democrats rush to try to raise money off of this, which they do. Now, what i like was the response of democratic whip James Clyburn who called wilsons behavior totally disrespectful and a knew low for the states congressional delegation. He has no studies South Carolina history very closely. In 1856 preston brooks, a congressman from South Carolina, upset by the abolitionist talk by a republican from massachusetts went over to the senate the senator nearly to death. And his fellow congressman held off would be helpers at pistol. That was a low. History has never been a strong suit. Anyhow, missed in the hubbub was the nature of his elocution. He did not say you are a liar or you are lying. He said, you lie. Lie. It was like an existential declaration five years before anyone else caught on it was that natural of a declaration. That was missed. All president s, many lie about their personal life, some much more than others, but only one in the modern era has elevated the lie to the level of strategy. Even bill clinton did not do that. What i will finish with or conclude with or move on with, i should say, what i consider in the book i had an article in the new york post. Post. They asked me how many lies obama told. I had to go back and count. And, i mean, a false statement either intentionally given or totally indifferent to the outcome of whether it is true or not usually for a stated gain. I i went back and counted. There were 75. At the end of the book i pulled out the top 25. There is nothing george bush said they found chemical weapons in iraq, a little late, but nothing george bush said would have cracked the top 25. Bill clinton would have at least a couple times. This is unprecedented. Not just like im making this up. There was an effort to denigrate the word lie. We have all followed those around. I was always tempted to ram into those cars. Anyhow, here they are. I just picked the top six. Pres. Obama said this to the nations schoolchildren a year after he was elected. I knew it was false. What matters more than it seems. In 2,004 when he was introduced to the nation he started his speech, if you recall, with this basic line, i line, i am the product of an improbable love between a goat herder from kenya. And they had an abiding faith in the possibilities of the nation. He built his persona and campaign about this Perfect Little persona that was disruptive. This was his signature appeal, a multicultural ideal based on his family life. If there was one i suspect no longer from closing times of time for the moment obama senior sobered up the next morning. He never spent a single night with his father. There was none before the election. We knew that he spent the first year of his life in seattle washington. Those who have the stomach to hang in here, yes. It was not until 2,012 Washington Post finally acknowledged there is no family. They lived together in seattle. Yet there are four major biographies. The right of biography. She does not tell us the word about where obamas mother was from the time she left school in february of 1961 until the time the baby is born. And she knows the controversy is out there. The people who used to be called reporters are now called conspiracy theorists because they try to fill in the gaps. It is not easily gotten. The notion that even after the election obama could go out and tell the schoolchildren he was two years old when his father left knowing that no one would call him on it. No one no one he knew or cared about what call him on it. But that is the way he rolled. Number five, the fast and Furious Program was a field initiated program. He spun this fiction that of at a forum knowing it was false because several months earlier White House Press secretary made the same bogus claim virtually word for word and got spanked on national tv. The only one who calls them out on anything. Jay carney pointed out, i have the memos. It was started in october 2009. Then he repeats it three months later. There needs to be a lot more done on fast and furious, by the way. This one was really kind of bold. Not even a smidgen of corruption. [laughter] some of you no the question that preceded this. In response to bill oreillys question about the irs scandal. No corruption. Obama says, not even a smidgen. It is hard to understand. When news of the scandal first broke a a year earlier he said, this is inexcusable this is a a year earlier. Now there is not a smidgen of corruption area and how can you say that when the investigation is not finished. Here is one, this is pretty bold. We revealed to the American People exactly what we understood at the time. This was in response about benghazi. The notion that we would hide the ball for political purposes when a week later we all found out there was a terrorist attack , then he goes on to say the day after, it would not be a very good cover up. He said that most prominently during the 2012 debate with mitt romney, the second debate where the cnn media was like a Tag Team Wrestling match. Dealing with some heavyweights. [laughter] i promised i would be good. He says to him, you are saying come up first of all, crowley gives him a set up line. Her responsibility. Like he knows this will happen. It is my responsibility. I always take full responsibility. And romney gets up and says, you says, you said it was a terrorist attack in the morning after . Now hes sitting in the corner and says, yes. I just want this on the record. And then obama says, candy. And she starts waving a piece of paper. Yes. He said it was a terrorist attack. Then the audience, against all rules, starts applauding romney and then obama starts talking over romney. Kandi romney. Kandi says, lets move on. Lets move on. He says to her, get the transcript. That was a killer moment in the history of that candidacy. She did a similar thing with fast and furious. But the first time, in fact, here is what he said. Where where he took his first question on benghazi, which show, David Letterman , David Letterman show week later, an appropriate place. And David Letterman asks, what happens with benghazi . Are we at war . Obama, here is what happened. A video was released by someone. Sort of a shady character who made an extremely offensive video directed at mohammed and islam. Now, the usually irreverent letterman looked shocked. Making fun of the prophet mohammed . [laughter] obama shakes his head in dismay, yes, making fun of the prophet mohammed. That was the first question he took. Doing it on the David Letterman show. Okay. Transparency and the rule of law we will be the touchstones of this presidency. This is what obama said on his first full day in office this has been violated more wantonly than a goat at a bachelor party. [laughter] im sorry. Precisely the violation of his promise that got turley and caddell so upset. Okay. Number one, primus one, primus violated. I do solemnly swear i will execute the office of the president of the United States. [applauding] he had his hand on the bible for that one. Now there are consequences. This is relevant. On september 16 of this year obama spoke to a gathering. He said what people want to here. The chances of an Ebola Outbreak were extremely low. No one with the disease can fly