The whole week because i had to tbit drafts in good shape for editing and i had a huge pile of box in the back of the car and the bathing suit over in that corner, most of it was the files and we walked into this house and and if it was made for us. People talk about writers retreats and get away, when i didnt have all the notes around my desk and all the stuff im used to seeing, it gave me a clarity of thought having i got out every now and then for a little walk and mostly i spent time in beautiful setting and allowed me to accomplish and write in a way i couldnt have at home. It was a combination, really, of all of that and i think its a real journey doing a book project and, you know, very different from shorter stories and its a learning curve, that you sort of work your way through for the challenges are wonderful and the final result is the sense of satisfaction that you dont get you dont quite get from shorter kinds of stories. Anyone else . Well, thank you so much for coming. I really enjoyed it. [applause]o author and the five hosts dana perino, how my best friend became americas dog. A lot of people take issue that your dog is named americas dog. I dont blame them. Every one dog is number one in their lives. If its a nickname given to him on red eye, a show that greg gutfeld we cant get along. Remember that we have a few thicks in common and for millions of us thats our love of our pets. Its true. 67 of american households have a household pet, most are dogs, not to disparage cats an ive seen that in my own life. Certainly at the dog parks in washington, d. C. And now ince manhattan, we dont talklk politics any time there. We all talk about dogs and we have made so many good friends and connect with people where you dont talk about the news of the day or any of the vitrol. Not republican centers, they know who you are . They k yes. When you come in with jasper . Theres so much understanding that our work lives are separate from the time when we go there. You know in your life every human being searches for those periods in their life where they can feel serenity, they are jush going to be and when i have a chance to go to the dog park or im home alone with jasper or even with peter, my husband peter, thats when i feel my most serene. Lets show some pictures from the book . A sporting dog from hungary, a lot like the sherman shorthaired, they were bred together to produce the hungarian bisila. After world war ii, in the post World War Soviet Union sort of expansion, one of the thicks that the stalin folks did was to try to demoralize people in hungary by exterminating the breeds and reluctant to send any dogs outside of the country but there were a small group of people who got together and they figured out a way for underground system and thats how they survived. Rg once you get attached to a certain breed, do you stick with it . I think so. I admire people who rescue dogs. Matches up rescue dogs, some cats with Wounded Warriors and they do all sorts of things, like to vaccinations and a little bit of pet insurance and food to take care of the first three months of training, sometimes if its needed. Yes, do i think if youre a person that love pug, youre probably always going to have a pugs, german shepherds. And by the way, we are going to put the phone lines up if youro want to call in and talk with dana perino, former White House Press secretary, if you live in east and central times 7488201, if you life in mountain and pacific time zones. How did you sell to 12, your publisher . 2, the good news thankfully it was a success. When i wrote it, i wasnt a natural long form writer and my first draft when i turned it in the editor said more, more, i take my assignment very literally,i work my butt all summer and the editor says, oh, no, now its too long and i had to cut ten thousand words and it was already very tightly written and there was a chapter on dogs and it was about 9500 words and i said, okay, you can have theke dog chapter back because it didnt exactly fit in. I didnt know i was going to get another chance to write the book. Sean saidic youre making the right decision, i promise you one day theyll be a dog book. That was the beginnings, i wrote a lot more. I added illustrations because that made it more unique. Jasper is posing quite a bit . These are interesting story, a lot of people are unhappy with social media right now because sos to vitriolic. C hes selftaught and he wouldet take pictures that i post of jasper and put them in different scenes. Theres an entire gallery of his amazing work. Dana perino what have the last five months been like . I worked a lot. The elections took a lot of time and i got part of not just the five, but also the election coverage so with bret baier and megan kelly, steve hays, george will, people ive admired for so long and we worked a lot of hours together, chris is another one. I did a podcast as well. We worked weekend and also an amazing fascinating story to cover, if you waited four hours, there would be a new story line in this election. It was just so wild the whole time. Whats your take on the result . Well, i think america spoke very, very loudly. The map looks totally different, donald trump was able to do something that a lot of people including me looking at the numbers didnt think he could do. Kellyanne conway, the president elects campaign manager, the cues and clues were there all along. Pe, i remember in 2012, i bought in the idea that the polls were skewed and romney was going to win and that turned not to be true and i told myself i would never do that again. The National Polling was correct, but the state polls was absolutely off and the wave of change that donald trump was able to achieve is quite remarkable and the republicans keep the house and the senate and a year ago no one would have thought that was possible. So now the republicans have this opportunity, i should mention its not just actually in washington where republicans will hold power, all across the country, in 2012, 2008 president obama inherited 62 state legislatures that were intu democratic control, today 68 of those are in republican control out of 99. That is america saying we want some change. Now the popular vote went to hillary clinton, quite decisively but in america you go by the electoral college. Page 51, id never said it in public what my personal opinions were before i joined fox news as contributor and while it is somewhat freeing to do so, its a bit like walking on a high wire without a net . Yes. So i was a spokesperson for somebody else my whole career and you could ask me what george w. Bush thought about the war or the financial crisis or legalization of marijuana and i could tell you what he thought or how he came to a decision on stem cell research, i knew exactly how he would come to the conclusion and i would say that i largely agreed with it. Then i get to be on the five and all of a sudden is what would you think about the legalization of marijuana and i kind of choked because i had never gone out on that limb before and i really give a credit to the fox News Executives that game me tho chance and also my cohosts, they were really instrumental in helping me know that it was okay to be myself and, i think, i also worried that if i gave myo own opinion, i could never go back to doing sort of spokesperson work because then people would know and i was worried about that and i remember finally five months into it i relaxed and thought, i dont wanting to back to that. I like this career path that im on, finally felt more comfortable. But still if you give your opinion, you are the target of criticism and before the target of criticism was somebody that i worked for, so it wasnt personal. Now its personal and i learned ive had to learn to try tody deal with that. Were you a never trump camp person . I never said that, i never labeled myself that way but i did make it clear that i was uncomfortable with a lot of the things he had said. Now that said, im very excited about the policy going forward. I believe that paul ryan and Mitch Mcconnell will be able to work with the white house and create really good policy that could do great work around the country so the next two years or maybe four, maybe eight could be really good for the Republican Party. What do you think of the book tour circuit, youve got a lot of people around here, youve did t already spoken . Well, i had a chance, absolutely a great place to go. There were 3000 300 people that came on a sunday night. Thats a good tip. I got to go to richard libraryo and southwest michigan and actually driving along its really good, even though i have roots in the western part of the united states, i have been in manhattan for a long time. Driving along and seeing america, you realize why they want to change and i hope that they get it. Pete in san antonio, texas, pete, youre on with dana on wi perino. Hello, dana. How are you . How are you . Ue im great, thank you. Whats your question or comment, pete . When do you come to san antonio so i can meet you . I would love to go there. I heard the river walk is amazing. Pete, is that all youve got . Thats pete in, san antonio. Thanks, pete. Have thousand thought being on fox regularly that noter has changed . Yes. Have you ever been harassed . No, i also have this george w. Bush library jacket. I love to wear it and i saw shepherd smith in the elevator and he was wearing it, wow, you love him. I do, i love him. I think people do a doubletake once in a while. Theres a lot there are more republicans than conservatives in big cities than you think. Theyre just quiet about it. Speaking of which george w. Bush has a new book. Er im so excited. What is it . He has undertaken a project where hes finishing the painting the portraits of 98 Wounded Warriors who served under his command, so a very emotional and moving tribute to these men and women and very a personal way, its not been done in the history of the world and so that book will come out in february and i hope that book tv has a chance to talk to them. I hope book tv has a chance to talk to them as well. Linda go ahead with your question or comment for dana perino. Hi, dana. Or i never hi. I love you and im a dog lover and never miss your show and congratulations, youre just big in everybodys eyes including mine. Thank you so much, do you have a question as well . No, i just wanted to tell you how much we like you. Well, i feel i actually im so glad i came today to hear that. Thank you very much. D so far this is an easy, easy show for you. October 30th, 2016, usa today, dana perino said i do feel a drift as a republican woman, maybe a woman without a party, you sort of feel like i dont know if i belong anymore . Yeah, i dont necessarily think im alone though certainly republican women came to thehe party and voted in large numbers for donald trump, they wanted the change as well. And what im trying to tease out in my own life which is, i think, is the case, Ronald Reagan talked about the big ten and maybe its bigger than i think it is, im not making sudden moves but i have evolved professionally from being a spokesperson to been somethingng who answers and comments on the news and i do think that people are more willing to willing to listen to me based on my experience and analysis if i cannot be seen as an advocate but as somebody who would understand the issues and can base my comments on something that i experience either on capitol hill or at the white house. Is manhattan an island when it comes to opinion and perhaps getting isolated a little bit . One of the things obviously i work at fox news so i hang out a lot of people of diverse opinion, Juan Williams and i are very good friends and gutfelt who is libertarian, strong conservatives, now what you would call them populist, ive been surprised frankly because when i lived in washington, d. C. , your whole life tends to be politics, even in your social life. Thats not the case in manhattan. It took me a while to for new york to grow on me but it really has and i find it refreshing to be there where you can be anonymous or you can be in it as much as you want to be and its pretty, a place that, i think, welcomes a lot of diverse opinion, i dont think its as partisan as made out to be. John is in harbor beach, michigan and john, youre on book tv with dana perino. Dana, good afternoon. Hi, how are you . Im fine, conservative guy from michigan, my wife is more liberal than myself and she makes me watch the liberal channels, which i do. D she ma okay. Since the election they just seem to the other side, the left, they seem to scrutinizee everything that donald trump does to the not its not a good thing, i just wonder when he gets in if theyre going to plan everything this guy done for the next four years, i would just like your comment . Well, i think we will have to see. One of the things that has been unfair, partly they have to ownr a little bit of this, initially right out of the gate the transition becomes a story, and thats very important because the transition is so important from one administration to the next. And they did basically move Chris Christie on out of there, they put pence in and you had all of the stories that saying that the transition was in total disarray, barack obama when he was president elect, did not nominate anybody until november 248 to 28th of that month. Donald trump has plenty of time and surprised him that he met with nikki haley that was initially for marco rubio and then you had mitt romney meeting with donald trump yesterday. So i think that everyone just needs to settle in to it a little bit, cover it as it happens but the other thing is that donald trump is able to speak directly to so many people because of his use of social media, facebook and twitter in particular, so how the media covers that will be a story and actually its a story about how they cover it, so theres plenty of News Coverage to go around, for me im really looking forward to the coverage of policies because theres a lot of meet meat there, a lot to chew on and im looking forward to that. You mentioned mitt romney and you have jasper in the republican convention, do you know mitt romney and what do you think of him being as part of the Trump Administration . First ever photo shop that the artist did because on the five we were talking about theco mystery speaker on the 2012 election and nobody knew who wufs going to be and it ends occupy being clint eastwood. Yes, i met mitt romney and im a fan. I give obviously credit for donald trump. Im willing to wait for a second because perhaps this tent is bigger than we thought. What about the masses as a whole. Somebody in your position, an anchor when they take a political stance it makes it difficult to come out, do you think thats entry wide or do you think, for instance, somebody like tom who was well known democrat and was use anchor do i have to tell you as White House Press secretary believe it or not that most of the reporters tried their upmost to be fair and i appreciated all of the work that they did and i knew they had a job to do and thats the relationship between the press secretary or thek president and the press is naturally adversarial but it doesnt have to be angry or mean, its also can be mutually beneficial. Ma its a good point when you say policies will be good for theav Republican Party and youre right to point that out to me because now, im a person who has grown up in small town wyoming and colorado, i have always believed that republican policies and conservative ideals are better for the country as a whole. I dont want any republican policies to just help republicans, i certainly dont. When i was the press secretary i never thought myself a press secretary to the republicans but to all of the country because theres an rnc and they have a spokesperson and that where was the party work was done. I do think that theres something exciting thats about to happen as well. For so long, for the left and the right, it was seen as a treasonnist act to come to the table and make a deal, compromise. I dont think its going to be the same way anymore. One of Hillary Clintons and Donald Trumps agreements was a, infrastructure, donald trump would spend twice as much money, thats not a traditional republican view. Paul ryan and Mitch Mcconnell might have to be pulled along by donald trump to accept more spending but at the same time could they cut a deal on Corporate Tax reform. I think chuck schumer, the new Senate Majority leader for the democrats will be willing to cut some deals and im hoping that both the left and the right will allow both parties to come to the table to make agreements on things so we can move issues for the country. From your first book and the good news is im a conservative is because Everything Else seems easy by comparison. Thats right. Free college, right, when Bernie Sanders during the primaries, talking about free college. Rv that doesnt work, somebody has to pay. Those actually are harder things to come by. James is calling in from spokane, washington. Thats a beautiful place. I had two questions and one is a little bit out of topic and the second one is about jasper, so what do you think about the Supreme Court becoming political and that just really bothers me, and the second thick aboutthat jasper is as people become more isolated, having a dog is actually really important and that builds you as a person and i really like what you have to say about both, thank you . So the Supreme Court is something thats near and dear to my heart, i was the spokesperson for chief Justice Roberts and alito when their confirmations were being ushered through the senate. I learned more about the court because of that work. Here is what i think about the justices and you saw this after scalia died that behind the scenes they are actually very good friends, doesnt matter their politics and i do think that the court has a way of simmering things down and i dont think it will be as political. Now process is super politicalei and i think that one of the reasons donald trump was able ti convince so many republicans tod go with him even if they had reservations is because they w believed the Supreme Court woulc be in better hands if there was a conservative court. But i hear your point of view that it shouldnt be political. President obama ha