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people which is the subtitle of your book. i love that. it's actually the title of a chapter in my book. let's not sue each other over that. but i was also thinking about that phrase, the parties versus the people. i was thinking it embodies maybe a deeper truth within that. that's that the parties aren't the people. the people are the people. the constitution of course recognizes the people and not the parties. as we well know. i don't even think that's a technical issue and in some ways i think part of where we have come to as a country and it's a time to remind ourselves that the ...

antagonisms. there's something so fro foundly disturbing about this system from the vantage point of our not -- not just that they can't sit together, but they keep us from sitting together. i just wanted the two of you to comment. >> interestingly enough that division that you talk about, you may remember a number of years ago when it was a much hotter issue than it has been since about creating a minority majority district. i was teaching at harvard at the time and there was a meeting, a faculty member and it was very interesting because people are looking for what they think will ...

terrorists, west bank expansion. they had a few things in common. but it wasn't what you have today with the parties marching in lockstep on almost everything. doesn't matter whether it's a stimulus package or a supreme court nomination. all the democrats are on one side. all the republicans are on the other side. actually, if you can bottle this, it's an amazing thing that's been worked here because by some magic, you could have this group of people to be either party. so you have white, black, hispanic, old, young, urban and rural, and yet, somehow, they all think alike. i mean, it...

>> that loss and victory in wisconsin was only the begin. republicans across the country used the victory as a rallying cry against unions nationwide. florida governor rick scott had this to stay about his own anti-labor laws. >> governor walker had a win last night. we're doing the right thing here here. >> mitt romney even claimed it proves union members will vote for him in the fall telling private donors today the union members will support us. we wouldn't have scott walker winning wisconsin if that weren't the case. in fact, exit polls showed walker did win nearly four in ten un...

>> thank you very much. i'm at the age where my memory is not so good anymore. but i do believe that all nine of my books have been invited by barnes & noble to speak. i am very grateful for that. i hope everyone supports brick and mortar bookstores. they are very important places. okay? better? okay. this one? should i start again? all right. thank you for coming. yes, so thank you everyone for coming on this lovely night. thank you to my publisher, viking books and my friends there here. my family and etc. okay, so today is the actual publish date of the book and i haven't spoken a...