these 18, 19, 20-year-old young mental and women that raise their right hand and make that step they are not wealthy for the most part. they made that courage success step as well. pete: different kind of leaders that we need in washington right now. let s get your book though it s your tenth called dark winter about domestic terrorism. a timely topic. tell us about it. dark winter is about an internet mogul that wants to change the united states know a more progressive system of government. he hacks the world s nuclear fleet and decides that he wants to take away mutual assured destruction. and he does so and then he begins to blackmail the united states and blackmail iran and north korea and whoever can pay the most and come forward is able to win the gam but the here and
city says butt out in public places. plus actor ben affleck goes to washington. we ll tell you why he s testifying before congress. hot on the web today, one of the top trending topics on yahoo! sarah palin s parents sleep with guns. chuck and sally heath told the bbc they personally received death threats, say they laughed off the guy who sent them copies of his receipt for the gun he bought until he showed up in alaska. the fbi intervened and palin s parents now sleep with guns because of those threats. man s best friend on facebook is still a dog. facebook founder mark zuckerberg adopted a hungarian sheep dog and named him beast. not only does the pretty puppy with an ugly name have a new home but a new facebook page on well. on it beast brags about making the internet mogul. pick up his dogdo. cut, cut, cut. hi. hi. how you doing? i m good. what are you doing?
the question is, is this an accurate portrayal of the internet mogul? ben mezrick is the author of the accidental billionaires. this is the book that the movie is based on coming out today. thank you for joining us. thank you so much. what did you think of the movie? you ve already seen it. i thought it was fantastic. i saw it and said best thing i ve ever seen. i was blown away by it. scott has been a part of other movies. he s done no country for old men and been a mogul forever and yeah, there s kevin spacey involved. dana who did it with him and all these great people that made the movie and alan sorkin with the screenplay. you can t as a writer have a better dream than that. exactly. how did you come one the idea of this book? were you fascinated with facebook like we all are, or do you know these guys? no, i was approached. i got on e-mail and said my best friend founded facebook. he was mark s best friend.
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