brian: i m going to go right to your book. this is out this week. foowho do you say i am? couple of things. you guys have talked about it well on the air about the findings of the pugh research center that are socialerring statistics that more and more people do not claim to be practicing their faith. what they do tell us though is that they prize prayer, divine providence and intense desire to improve they call it spirituality. what they re telling me they need little tidbits that can help them do that a lot of people say i don t have time to read huge chapters but if i got a little nugget every day i would find that very helpful. that was the methodology. brian, thoughtful people, close to me said, you know, why don t we you have got a lot of writings out there. you can do some new stuff. why don t we put it together because people told us we would find it helpful. i m glad we did. steve: today is halloween.
that aside, i think oprah winfrey has a beautiful life and i don t think in the end she is going to make a run for this. she also has a more important problem. oprah winfrey s entire image is built on forgiveness and suppose it spirituality and living your best life. those things are not exactly congruent with being a political figure, having to take really hard positions on very difficult, controversial issues. and i don t think she wants to end up muddying her brand by entering the political fray. katie: oprah has said that running for office is not in her dna, probably for all of the reasons monica just laid out, but you think actually her running wouldn t be such a bad idea? i m sort of torn on this issue because i kind of would like to move the presidency out of the realm of celebrity, honestly. i think that s my ideal candidate for 2020, someone who has experience in governing and legislation and getting things done in washington, something that our current president has not
that aside, i think oprah winfrey has a beautiful life and i don t think in the end she is going to make a run for this. she also has a more important problem. oprah winfrey s entire image is built on forgiveness and suppose it spirituality and living your best life. those things are not exactly congruent with being a political figure, having to take really hard positions on very difficult, controversial issues. and i don t think she wants to end up muddying her brand by entering the political fray. katie: oprah has said that running for office is not in her dna, probably for all of the reasons monica just laid out, but you think actually her running wouldn t be such a bad idea? i m sort of torn on this issue because i kind of would like to move the presidency out of the realm of celebrity, honestly. i think that s my ideal candidate for 2020, someone who has experience in governing and legislation and getting things done in washington, something that our current president has not