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I have you on the radio program. and you know, because i ve had you on and we ve talked about your book before. and, you know, sometimes, i read books. sometimes, i don t read books. and i m always very squirrelly with you on books that i haven t read. i ll be like, oh, mm, it was oh. i ve read this. it is great. i m halfway through. it is great. it is worth every penny, up to $5 or whatever you re charging for it. it is no, seriously, it is really good. it is we were talking the audience and i were talking before the show, and i said, very few history books are written this way, in a story form, so you actually feel like you know what the story is. you re there. you care. we try to put you there. it s not about dates and places. i find it fascinating how much i didn t know about john wilkes booth. let s start with him. he was a leonardo dicaprio of our day. yeah, he was a flamboyant guy that was well-known on the east coast in particular, cause he starred in a l ....
But here s the thing. the people that read the books, because the books aren t about politics and when you and i talk, we have never once talked politics. no. there s no ideology in the books. so when people read the books, all of a sudden, they re hooked. if they read one, they start reading all of them. what did you think, as a veteran writer, when lincoln hits number 1 and is on the list for 79 weeks? what went through your mind? well, i was shocked, because, you know, i thought it was kind of a one-off, like, we were just gonna do this one book, and i was thrilled to do it. and then i had actually signed a contract to write another book on my own. and then it hits. and 2 days after i signed the contract, you re calling me and you re saying, we re gonna do killing kennedy. and i literally had to call the other publisher and say, i m not gonna write this book for a long time. and then that s what began the whole progression. all right. martin dugard, everybody. ....
Ham and in new york juan williams. start with you. on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the most serious, where it stands now on email thing, how bad? well, i think if it were a republican it would be a little higher let me stipulate that because the media would treat it differently. right now she is probably at a six or seven. and i think she is making it worse by not responding and when she comes out and doesn t have answers likely to these questions i think it s going to be an issue. i don t think it s going to derail things partly because of the media look, this is just blatantly obviously unethical. it s an issue for government transparency and issue for how she would govern. it might be a legal issue. very likely is. it s so patently obviously clinton-like in its inherent shadiness. the new york times broke the story. i agree. and they re sensing a little bit of blood in the water. he know how they are when ....
The email fiasco. i think it will have an effect. jennice is right this is emotional candidacy. hillary clinton is a known commodity. people who like her are going to like her whether she turns over the emails or not. but it is the 20% in the middle that are going to make the call on who the next president is. and i think the email thing is going to resonate if there is more stuff here. it s going to resonate because, look if there was a good answer to the email question, they would have answered it last week. we are now the tenth day into this story. today the cnn reports that hillary clinton will answer questions about this within the next 48 hours. to me that says that they are still trying to figure out not only how to answer the first question but it s the second and third questions that they might not be able to answer. and then you are talking possible real problems, maybe even illegal issues surrounding these emails to moo that s fairly black and white. that guess downtown ....
Hypocrites or not by taking the money. okay. but the email story now that becomes problematic if it s a drip drip, drip stuff. more will come out. of it could be it could hurt her and it could hurt any candidate if this becomes, as you say a bigger story. is it going to be a bigger story? are there missing emails that are important to national security? we know she didn t get hacked. it would have made the news already. we know the emails she is dying to rethem. let s see the facts. wait and see but there is already a gaffe brought out by congressman gowdy who is going to be on megan s show after this that she traveled to libya. there is no emails that came out on that and that s inconceivable she wouldn t have any. let s make a bet for those candidates. those voters that could be persuadable. i guarantee you that those who can be persuaded are not going to make their judgment on hillary clinton based on ....