And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis they are the Big Questions that confront all of us. How to find meaning in chaos, how to start over in the face of devastating loss. How to cope with suffering. Lamott began writing stitiches following the newtown connecticut shootings. Good to have you on this program. Give me your state of mind after those shootings. Stunned, i was speechless. I felt i did not understand how we would go on from there because what i teach my children , they are loved and chosen and safe. I would say who is wearing a black suit with a lewd tie with white stripes . Ok, you are loved and chosen. You are safe. How can you tell children after that after 20 of their fears have been slaughtered by someone who have has one of the 3 million guns in this country. I thought it would show up and tell them i am 59 and the light still shines in the darkness and not once has the darkness extinguished that. I have a fouryearold grandson
Thank you very much. You know when ryan was giving the introduction i was getting nervous at the end he was going to say one of these days he is going to find something he is good at. It is an honor to be here. Thanks for braving the weather. He talked about the music part of me. I was in los angeles last night and i wanted the bring them with me. You would have loved them and then i would have had to play with them and you would not have loved that. I am headed back there tonight and tomorrow i am there with more meetings from an organization that provides Musical Instruments to children. And then i will go from los angeles to new york and Funeral Services are held monday. I lost my iphone in the course of this. It is a horrible thing. I got it back. I called the nsa and they knew exactly where it was. And they put all of my emails back in. It was very nice of them. I cannot begin my comments to you without saying a heart felt word of deep thanks to ryan prebus that showed courage tha
Metamorphosis on al qaeda. We have been come as a result of the arab awakening and what has gone on in the arab world, that al qaeda cutting rebirth. It can exactly at the moment that the Obama Administrations hollis he against policy against al qaeda created its greatest success, the death of bin laden. I agree with everything about the president of of afghanistan. The administration is unable to make the case to the american people, which is the reason we need 10,000 american troops in afghanistan is to continue to drone war in pakistan. That is the Vital National security interests of the United States. We do not want to see al qaeda rebuild like we saw al qaeda rebuild in ai iraq. The drones are not the answer to al qaeda, that they are surely a very good weapon to have in your hand when you deal with al qaeda. My concern is if the United States gives up that weapon in afghanistan by having no bases for operation after 2014, we will see al qaeda rebuild and regenerate as fast as we
Be part of that conversation today. The first 45 minutes with you this morning, we want to ask you about Media Coverage that the governor has received over the last couple of weeks. We want to get your input on if it has been fair. If you have been watching it and you have an opinion on if it has been fair, tell us why. 5853880. 202 republicans, 202 5853881. Ndependents, 202 5853882. If you want to give us your opinion on our social media. Ites, it is twitter cspanwj send us an email, too. That is journal cspan. Org. This is media matters. Ir claim, did adoring christie coverage invite new jersey corruption . Trying to explain governor Chris Christie as unraveling political career as allegations mount, the New York Daily News quoted a local operative who diagnose it diagnosed it as. I goes on to talk about the way the media has covered it. Possible hisly staff would have behaved the same way without the rest clips of his first term, but it is easy to imagine how they might have created
Anything to keep people voting for them. It breaks my heart. I am a bleeding heart [inaudible] and i do not think the Founding Fathers meant that private people should very easily be able to get semiautomatics. There has been a small misunderstanding i think. Out andkeeps coming convincing everybody that we are trying to take way their rights. Barack obama is trying to steal their rights. I do not know. These changes towards peace go so slowly. Tavis that meaning can go a lot of different ways. There is political meeting meaning and social meaning and spiritual meaning. Talked me about the spiritual meaning. What is the take away for those about who believe in that sort of thing . The take away is that the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it. What would jesus do, what would the disciples do, they show up and they are heartbroken and get everybody water and sit with them and they say more will be revealed and they say this is a very small piece of eternity.