We have they spent here. Lets hear it for cspan. [applause] there is no better crow crowd ie washington, d. C. Metro area. All of the viewers of cspan i think are in this room right now. We love you and watching the regular viewers and we welcome everyone to cspan. But theres a couple of other things. First im going to tell you about the difference between history and destiny. This is true. I cannot believe that this is happening. But my father may he rest in peace was struck by lightning. His father, my grandfather, im not joking, was struck by lightning. That means dont stand next to me at rainstorms. [laughter] this last week i was telling my son listen, my dad was struck by lightning, his dad was struck by lightning and he was like my gosh, we could be struck by lightning. I was like we wont be but sure, you might be. This is true, my son, my family, my wife and my kids were taking a train from new york city here in washington, d. C. For this event and their train was struck by lig
She is going to be racing out of there. I can start chapter 1. 20 years i have been doing it. But to me i said dont do it, dont start the book until you have at all. It will make a better book. In 1898. And john wilkie was put in charge of the secret service. Harry houdini loves doing magic tricks. The magician was in control of the secret service. And dont just want to force facts in our vomiting up information. Couldnt figure it out. And then i look at houdinis life. Harry houdinis secret service, fantastic idea, so many tricks, he was going to virginia and that was the week before. And locks ran the jail doors and harry says lock me up in your jail and i will get out. He always had the inside information. The secret service gave the answers and i need to get secret service. I want my own too and Harry Houdini was upset with death. Never got over the death of his mother, never. When i look at Harry Houdinis life the escape artist shows it looks like hes going to die and he gets out,
[inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, we are here to welcome the 11th time number one New York Times bestseller across many genres including fiction, nonfiction, childrens, how to use, graphic novels. Erie. So you know all of you have cameras out, cspan is here and you know what that means. All of us book nerds are being watched by all our Favorite Book nerds. We arefinally altogether in oneplace. We have as many viewers as svn right now. That joke does not work in sports places. I love coming to virginia, obviously the washington dc area was our home and a beautiful place for us where we had our children here. We had our lives here. I started writing here and its especially important today. Today is the day my dad died and we marked the day and i know it seems like something sad but i love my father and i especially love being in this barnes and noble because my father used to go into barnes and noble and say yes, im here for brad meltzer book, hes my favorite author and the
[applause]. Getting a fun, one because youre in the front row and you are chaos people. Two, weve got cspan here lets hear it for cspan. [applause]. We live cspan. Washington dc metro area. All the viewers of cspan, i think are in this room right now. We love you. And the regular viewers as well. We welcome everyone to cspan. But theres a couple of other things. First i am going to tell you about the different between history and destiny. And we all know what history is of what happened. But destiny is what must happen. And this is true pretty cant believe this is happening. My father, he rested piece he was start by finding predict my father, was struck by lightning. The main still stand next to me in a rainstorm. It must become selling my son the story. And telling him, listen. My dad was struck by lightning, his dad was struck by lightning pretty so my gosh, we could be struck by lightning. As the senate, we wont but sure you might be. Tonight, and this is true. My son, and my wife
Democrats and joe biden and Kamala Harris referring to them as radical leftists, and violence and chaos is a result of democratic leadership. And so the president again stressing that issue of law and order but certainly paramount in americans minds, the coronavirus pandemic, we have yet to hear about that except in economic terms and lives it has claimed. And also paramount is the racial tension that were seeing and calls for justice that much of our newscast has been about, especially athletes that President Trump publicly quarreled with, kneeling for the national anthem. So there is a lot at play here tonight. And it will be interesting to see how the speakers particularly Vice President pence address those issue is, so with that well have a full wrapup later, lets get back to the rnc stream. We need more leaders like President Trump who understand freedoms that pay up the fabric of america. My fellow americans, specifically my democrat and independent friends, it is now time for us