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Be about in part that readers might think about once they've read it is why do people do these things? why do they kill? why do they kill -- megyn: very timely, sadly, this week. >> it really is, it's terrible. but they do it, they do it over and over, and we always think, oh, it's related to our present times -- megyn: or mental illness. and in many cases that's true. >> of course it's true. and freud said, he was looking around at world war i where millions of people died for really no good reason, and he said it's terrible to contemplate, but he believed that every one of us is born with th...

I'd never heard of it, and i'm a criminal law professor. manhattan, september morning, and out of nowhere with america's hit by the deadliest, most massive terrorist attack on american soil to that point, and it's not 9/11, it's 1920. probably the biggest terrorist attack in history, and to this day we don't know who did it. nobody was ever arrested or identified. megyn: a tale of intrigue and mystery and romance follows. but in be your book you talk about how dr. freud has a theory of the death instinct. and he believed what? >> well, it's quite interesting. in the same year, 1920, sigmund fr...

>> well, she's given me more than a run for my money in a lot of ways. [laughter] megyn: listen, i want the viewers to know that your daughter came out and wrote a beautiful defense of her mother, and they sound like beautiful, happy girls, and you dedicated your book to them. and can your book is called "the death instinct." you, big-brained person, while you were an undergraduate at princeton, wrote your thesis on sigmund freud, and you incorporate that into this book by having the doctor weigh in, advise on a terror attack that struck at the heart of the financial district in 1920, folks. t...