Its an honor and exciting to be with my old friend chris, talking about her beautiful book. I love it so much. I thought maybe start with what got you on to the book, which means lets start with the most difficult emotional. Can you talk a little bit you do in the book. Great [laughter] talk about what got you thinking about foster care and what happens when childhood is disrupted . There are a couple of things, first of all, thank you for being here. Thank you to the strand for having us. Thank you everybody for coming. Okay. Difficult stuff. So make it funny. Okay. Funny, difficult stuff. [laughter] okay. I grew up in a crappy family. So that happened, and i wasnt removed, although i did i lived with a mom and i left her when i was fourteen and never saw her again. And i lived with that guilt and that pain for a long time. I there was no foster care intervention. Then i moved with my father, and there was Child Welfare did contact did come in to our family, but i was never removed. I
the republican candidate. [captioning made possible by nbc universal] chris: welcome to the show. with us today, our panel. first up, it was a week when you didn t need polls to show you that barack obama s way down by a serious loss of confidence after that downgrade of the u.s. with markets crashing. the president, no impact on traders or investors when he tried to project strength with the force of his words. the polls out this week have his approval numbers in the low 40 s and that drop in confidence comes at the moment when the republican race is finally under way. their nomination is truly worth having. howard, the president had a terrible week with what we called a bungee-jumping congress, it s a great time for republicans, here they come. chris, barack obama is a boxing fan. to use a boxing analogy, he s been stunned and is standing there in the middle of the ring waiting for someone to stalk him. in the polls, republicans have never liked him but independents did a
[captioning made possible by nbc universal] chris: welcome to the show. with us today, our panel. first up, it was a week when you didn t need polls to show you that barack obama s way down by a serious loss of confidence after that downgrade of the u.s. with markets crashing. the president, no impact on traders or investors when he tried to project strength with the force of his words. the polls out this week have his approval numbers in the low 40 s and that drop in confidence comes at the moment when the republican race is finally under way. their nomination is truly worth having. howard, the president had a terrible week with what we called a bungee-jumping congress, it s a great time for republicans, here they come. chris, barack obama is a boxing fan. to use a boxing analogy, he s been stunned and is standing there in the middle of the ring waiting for someone to stalk him. in the polls, republicans have never liked him but independents did and his base was strong wit
the republican candidate. [captioning made possible by nbc universal] chris: welcome to the show. with us today, our panel. first up, it was a week when you didn t need polls to show you that barack obama s way down by a serious loss of confidence after that downgrade of the u.s. with markets crashing. the president, no impact on traders or investors when he tried to project strength with the force of his words. the polls out this week have his approval numbers in the low 40 s and that drop in confidence comes at the moment when the republican race is finally under way. their nomination is truly worth having. howard, the president had a terrible week with what we called a bungee-jumping congress, it s a great time for republicans, here they come. chris, barack obama is a boxing fan. to use a boxing analogy, he s been stunned and is standing there in the middle of the ring waiting for someone to stalk him. in the polls, republicans have never liked him but independents did a
[captioning made possible by nbc universal] chris: welcome to the show. with us today, our panel. first up, it was a week when you didn t need polls to show you that barack obama s way down by a serious loss of confidence after that downgrade of the u.s. with markets crashing. the president, no impact on traders or investors when he tried to project strength with the force of his words. the polls out this week have his approval numbers in the low 40 s and that drop in confidence comes at the moment when the republican race is finally under way. their nomination is truly worth having. howard, the president had a terrible week with what we called a bungee-jumping congress, it s a great time for republicans, here they come. chris, barack obama is a boxing fan. to use a boxing analogy, he s been stunned and is standing there in the middle of the ring waiting for someone to stalk him. in the polls, republicans have never liked him but independents did and his base was strong wit