And doesnt look great for the environment. We have a president elect who says that Climate Change is across from china. Do you have any encouragement i dont think we can talk to this mean about anything. I dont know how you feel about that. Im not the only one. We see that his appointed people in big oil fracking, quail we have made big progress in the past few years i imagine that some of that will continue but we have somebody who is really appointed everybody who doesnt believe in that. I just want encouragement sykes stop crying. I have a few days of crying. Its a very good question. We can all cry in our beer forever or we can pick up and do something and find ways to work with it. I had been working with the Environmental Organization for 50 years now. Weve always been working on our own for a long time. Working to continue. And i have to say its all about finding best practices in sustainability together. The market will take care of the whole business with oil in drilling. It will not become sustainable for them to keep oil into drilling when they have to meet the carbon tax or whatever is can be instituted were to need it to mitigate all of the missions that are coming out. I just spent a week on the pacific west coast on my book to her and i have to tell you those coastal cities states are doing remarkable things. Thats all we need to look at. California is almost 15 alternative energy right now. They are already making a profit on alternative energy. When i was speaking to microsoft in redmond. North of seattle all of those Tech Companies in Silicon Valley and in seattle are going green they bought up half of the stock of first solar. At the amount of energy they put out from their company is so great that they need to go green. This can be costeffective. That is whats gonna with to change the whole things. It will probably change it quicker than you think. Because we live in a capitalist system. It will eventually balance out in the big Drilling Companies cant do it anymore. Its not going to be costeffective. I think they want me to quit. Please a round of applause. Jane alexander. Thank you very much. And again if you would like to have your book autographed please have to the left and past the elevators to the autographing area. Thank you. Your wife jean book tv on cspan two. This is a live coverage of the 30 third annual Miami Book Fair. On the north side of downtown miami. Several hours of live coverage i have. You will hear from david barry. And have it chance to talk about senator Bernie Sanders a lot ahead. I would recommend for you if you want to see the full schedule go to our website at booktv. Org and if you want to see some behind the behindthescenes video and pictures follow us on social media. Coming up in just a few minutes were to show you James Carville. The Miami Book Fair is a week long event anymore. But earlier this week political consultant and author James Carville spoke in his book is called were still right, theyre still wrong here he is from the Miami Book Fair. Good evening everybody and welcome. Welcome to the 33rd Miami Book Fair. We are so happy to have you here. How many of you were here last think. Wasnt pretty remarkable. He was really terrific. We have an Amazing Program tonight we hope that you will make it a point to be here every single night. This year we have a few things you can go to. You can create your own schedule for that. After that weve got the very School Called thing called the porch. It is a place just to go it is in that direction. And theres free music as well. We hope to see you there as well. I will be able to begin to try to cut into anyones time by telling about. But i do want to bring up someone very special. We could not be doing this without the sponsors. Who give us all of that remarkable support for this Miami Book Fair. 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He has a mba from the Harvard Business school and worked in finance until finding out real estate company. He has served on the boards of directors from several forprofit and nonprofit organizations. They are also chairs of the degroot foundation. They support literary art projects. They divided both of them between paris in miami and i can share say this year we can also launch the literary prize for a novella. If you have a secret hidden novella somewhere in a drawer if you want to write one. Youll be able to interest to be considered for the prize. So please welcome charles degroot. [applause]. Thank you very much. Good evening. James carville his political savvy. That campaign was documented in the winning documentary. He have a large sign about the room that said the economy stupid. He is a contributor to cnn and fox. He is married to the political consultant. We are still right. Theyre so wrong. They update his number one New York Times bestseller from 1996. They skewer the gop record over the past 20 years. The living manifestation of a failed party. And judging from our comments you are in for a real non sugarcoated book. So please join me in that. [applause]. Thank you. Its really great to be here at the largest institution of Higher Education in the most diverse institute in the United States. Welcome to the Miami Book Fair. I loved college i really did. The best four years of my life was spent as a sophomore at lsu. How many people are scared. How may people are very scared. See mike youre not scared enough. Its a disaster. Its a disaster. Our president elect doesnt know the first thing about the first thing. And you see his appointment that was being made today you should be scared. Tell me something good. And i say i cant. And you know, what is the most amazing thing since the beginning of modern Political Party 1828 this is the first time that a Political Party has won the popular vote and six out of the last seven president ial elections. You realize it whats getting ready to happen to you in this country has not been off the sit tainted. To appoint outright antisemites to the office next of the president , but they dont have the authority of the will of the people. And thats the most Sacred Authority you can have in any democracy anywhere. And we, and we have the absolute responsibility to expose and educate the public as to whats going on. Because theyre getting ready to run roughshod. They may have the constitutional election to back out of nato and line up with putin, but they dont have the will of the people. They dont have the will of the people. The democrats are going to win this election by two, two and a half million votes. Not even particularly close. So they can invoke anything they want, and theyre going to run roughshod over the Supreme Court, you just stand by. I dont have much that i can tell you, and were being told, well, maybe hes moderate. Oh, please. [laughter] he says im going to, im going to keep the good parts of obamacare and get rid of the bad parts. Oh, really . Why didnt somebody think of that before . [laughter] and write it down. Well, look, hes shown some flexibility on obamacare, hes just going to give everybody everything they, you know . No so, and you would think, and people voted, two and a half million, weve had two successful democratic presidencies that sandwiched a disastrous republican presidency, and were getting ready to have a disastrous republican presidency. He wants to go sleep in his own bed on the weekends. [laughter] he didnt know its 24 7. [laughter] he didnt know the world dont go to sleep. He didnt know that when its noon here, its midnight somewhere else. He didnt know that sunday is just another day in the islamic world. Thats the president elect by virtue of a quirk in the constitution. Thats not the president elect by virtue of the will of the people. Understand that. Understand that. And they say, well, youre just going to oppose because no, im opposing because the people demand it. They voted. They instructed us to oppose. That was the marching orders that we got on election night. No one has said that. And people say, well, you could imagine what people would be saying if the republicans won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College. Whats the matter, we cant talk . Whyd they just get to complain . But they cant, i cant point that out . Im being a sore loser if i say we won the election . If i point out correctly, if i point out correctly we actually picked up house seats, we actually picked up senate seats, am i justing being a sore loserr am i telling the truth . Somehow or another were not allowed to tell the truth. But you and so then he comes and he tells and by the way, the people, and take no solace in this, the people that are going to get hurt the most are most of the people that i voted for, because theyre going to get rid of their medicare, theyre going to run roughshot over them. [applause] every lobbyist is going to go crazy, and do not fault temptation, because there theye people, and they dont realize whats getting ready to happen. And its getting ready to happen. Theyre going to drain the swamp. Theyve got lobbyists on every transition thing that you have. If you think, you think the swamp is the everglades [laughter] let me tell you, thats the everglades and every swamp you ever heard of in your life put together. Ever put together. And theyre coming. Then he was going to, like, he told these people and, understand, this man does not come to office with a list of policies. He he comes to office with a list of grievances of people we dont like. We dont like the liberals, you know, east coast, we dont like this, we dont like that, you know . And by the way, all you coastal elites, all the people that live in gazillion dollar highrises here in florida, hes going to get you back. Hes going to give a tax cut, hes going to get rid of the estate tax, hes really going to kill you, but hes going to fatten you up first. [laughter] the coastal elites are going to do great. Theyre going to do fine. Theyre going to deregulate the coastal elites that want to drill off of the coast of south florida. Highball it, have at it, youll do great. Now, if you happen to live in a place like, well, like all the people in this room, thats subject to global warming, hell probably get you at some point. Thats how hes going to get the coastal elites back, hes going to flood you out. [laughter] i know, i shouldnt be joking about it, but what can you do . Be all you good people cop out here come out here, ive got to give you something to laugh at. [laughter] but, you know, i, you know, and i did the book, i laid it out. People say, well, you know, you were wrong. Republicans won. Well, no, they didnt win, they lost by two and a half million or 2. 5 million, whatever its going to turn out. [laughter] thats my phone. This is essentially where we are. If you look at any fact that you want and by the way, think about this. We have produced donald trump in a nation with under 5 unemployment, 2. 9 growth, with shrinking deficits, with rising incomes. Can you imagine whats going to happen in the future if we dont get ahold of this and get our message out and expose and educate people . Can you imagine what this is . And now were going to be told weve got to cut all these colleges. You know, we dont have the money, weve got to have money for tax cuts, we dont have money for education. All right . You can see it coming. Paul ryans already said were going to reform medicare. You know what it means when they tell you were going to reform america . You know exactly what they mean. Theyre going to take the money from medicare and give it to their donors. You see this coming. You see all of this coming. What and if you ask me could hillarys campaign done this, could they have done that . Yeah, you know . And we can second guess ourselves to death, ill be glad to engage in, you know, second guessing or anything else. But at some point our own people didnt get out. At some point, you know now, again, we won, but we didnt get them out in florida like we needed to. And were going to learn a lesson, a big lesson. This is going to be one giant civics lesson. And what its, what its going to bang into your held is elections have into your head is elections have consequences. Elections have consequences. Elections have consequences. [applause] so the first part of educating yourself, im serious, i laid it right out in there. The facts, the time again and again and again what the growth rate is, what the Unemployment Rate is, what the Economic Statistics are, what the things that we have done. And whats really kind of odd at the moment that, you know, we had under a democratic president were taking this country back from the depths of a depression, a near depression, the worst recession weve ever had, put 20 million more people on health insurance, we got out of wars that we were in, and and we were you would never know it reading the paper doing pretty good in the fight against isis. We had entered, we had started to acknowledge our problems with climate. We had started internationally were out of all of those. Were out of all of those. And so what is our role as democrats . Our role is this, we have to expose, let the public know when theyre ripping and running, let the public know what the effect of what theyre trying to do and educate people and be relentless about it. Be relentless about it. And, again, go back to my question i asked you before. When people say could you imagine the reaction if the republicans would have won the popular vote but not the Electoral College . Whens the last time you heard a democrat raise hell about that . [laughter] think about that. But we won it six out of the last seven times. The public has said we want the United States to make Supreme Court appointments. You know what theyre going to get . Run over. What have we learned from this . We learned if we should have known before, but we didnt cant let it happen again. People are going to get a Civics Education. This country is going to get the best ninth grade Civics Education that it ever got in its life. [laughter] i promise you that. I promise you that. In every appointment he makes, everything that he does, expose and educate. Expose and educate. Expose and educate. Thats what we have to do. Thats our mission. Thats the job ahead. And also when i say educate, educate yourself. Be informed. Fight this battle everywhere that you can. Fight it in the neighborhoods, fight it on the street, fight any place that you see, on the campuses wherever they are. Because this is a time, a very perilous time for the United States. We are being led by a person that knows nothing, who is surrounded by people who have an agenda that is contrary to is the interests of what we believe in. And every person in here that believes in pluralism, every person in here that believes in science, in facts, in knowledge, we have to band together. This man is an affront to the concept of american blurrism. S pluralism. It is an affront to the concept of you would think if you watched animal house and you saw the dean, what did it say on the statue . Knowledge is good. Well, its no longer good. Its not good to know stuff anymore. But this is what this is. And there are people in this country that fervently believe in pluralism, that fervently believe that we are better when we have a pluralistic, diverse country of different people and who believe that knowledge is the basis of good public policy, were in the fight of our lives. Were in the fight of our lives. We cant deny it, we cant sugar coat it, we cant gloss over it. And if you dont accept those two values, then youre not in a fight. If you accept those two values, which i think its the very core of what modern america should be, lets get together and lets fight like hell, let