Gloria oh tons, im sure. The president ial medal of freedom depends on the president you get it from. [laughter] charlie yes. You might not have gotten it from another president. Gloria henry hyde, who has probably damaged more womens lives than any other. With the hyde amendment, right. He was given a medal of freedom. So, it meant a lot to me because it came from president obama. Charlie how do you think hes doing . Gloria well, you know, i have such respect and empathy for him. Because he is dealing with an ultrarightwing that if they had cancer and he had the cure, they would not accept it. I mean, i have never seen charlie that is a nice turn of phrase. Gloria i believe that. I believe it. The hatred is so huge that it is not the majority of the country at all it is maybe 20 tops but it has a lot of influence. I admire him because he is always trying to talk and reach out. Some people would say too much, but that is the kind of thing he does. Charlie some people say not enough. So
That some time back, he said, did you have trouble finding your voice . I said, no, i worried after working for reagan, such a vivid presence and such a vividsounding human that i would have trouble getting back to my own sound, but then i wrote my first book immediately after working for Ronald Reagan and i had no problem at all sounding like me. I inescapably sound like me. To the extent i have a voice, its my voice. I had a sense of humor, but i never really explored it, you know, in school or anything. In fact, i was pretty much of a nerd and quiet, a good student. I wanted to be a journalist, and i wanted to write, and, so, when i got to u. C. L. A. , i wanted to major in journalism, but there was no school of journalism. I could take a course and join the daily bruin, but i looked in the catalog and rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Commu
Have not received . Tons, im sure. It depends on the president you get it from. [laughter] charlie you might not have gotten it from another president. Gloria henry hyde who has damaged more womens lives than any other. With the hyde amendment. He was given a medal of freedom. To mea lot for me because it came from president obama. Charlie how do you think hes doing . Have such respect and empathy for him. He is dealing with an ultrarightwing that if they had cancer and he had the cure, they would not accept it. Charlie that is a nice turn of phrase. Gloria i believe that. That it isis so huge not the majority of the country at all. It is may be 20 tops. It has a lot of influence. He isre him because always trying to talk and reach out. Some people would say too much but that is the kind of thing he does. Some people say he did not use the office in that way of reaching out enough. Gloria that has to do with the social criticism. Charlie exactly. Thatays off the notion Ronald Reagan an
Congressional leaders will be heading to the white house this afternoon. Theyre meeting with president obama about keeping the government funded. The current budget year runs out at the end of this mop. The Government Faces a shutdown if they cant agree on a spending bill. Senate negotiators have been working on a threemonth extension of current spending levels. The white house meeting is scheduled for 4 00 eastern and well bring you any reaction that follows. Congress returns this afternoon for legislative business on the house agenda this week, legislation preventing the transfer of guantanamo detainees into the u. S. , expanding the authority of the Veterans Affairs department to fire or demote employees for misconduct and proposed impeachment of irs commissioner. The senate will resume consideration of water projects authorization bill with a procedural vote later in the day. Off the floor, negotiations continue on a deal to fund the government past a september 30th deadline. The h
Watch book tv all weekend, every weekend weekend on cspan2, television for serious readers. Next on book tv afterwards program, Washington Post columnist talks to williams of fox news about republican politics. Host the author of why the right went wrong, from goldwater to the tea party and beyond, ej, thank you for doing this. You are a much a steam columnist for the Washington Post but people think of you as a liberal columnist. Is this book intended for liberals, conservatives, or both . Guest i like to think of both, thanks for doing this i really appreciate it. At the beginning of the book i make the point that a healthy conservativism is in the interest of everybody including liberals. I also make the point that i grew up in a conservative family and only started becoming a liberal in my early teen years. My dad and i had a lot of great arguments, he encouraged them. He thought it was a good was a good thing when kids and parents argued about politics. I say that because i dont l