michael cruz, what can we learn about donald trump from reading the art of the deal? we can learn a lot, i think, and we should. when you are studying donald trump and i think everybody in this country should be studying donald trump, the art art of the deal was a foundational document and at this point it reads in wreck tropes backed like a campaign playbook. i think he is selling fantasy and he is doing that using hyperbole. those are his words not mine. his words are that he plays to people s fantasy fantasy. people may not think big themselves but they can still get very excited by those who do. that s why a little hyperbole never hurts. people want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular and i call it truthful hyperbole. i think that s exactly what he is doing. that s what he does. i ve worked for him his whole life. i wrote an article for the wall street journal and asked him if this was his playbook hiding in plain sig
[applause] and we also need a cheerleader. michael cruz, what can we learn about donald trump from reading the art of the deal ? guest: we can learn a lot, i think, and we should. when you re studying donald trump, and i think everybody at this point in this country should be studying donald copped trump, the art of deal is the foundational document. at this point it reads sort of in retrospect like a campaign playbook. first and foremost, i think what we can learn is he is selling fantasy, and he s doing that using hyperbole. those are his words, not mine. host: well, in fact, his words from the art of the deal is i play to people s fantasies. people may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. that s why a little hyperbole never hurts. people want to belief that something believe that something is the wiggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. i call it truthful hyperbole. .. and you have seen that all the wa
published by a traditional publisher and that average age is 37 years old. so, i will tell you, bill, you are skewing the numbers very much. bill walker grew up in knoxville, tennessee and went to the university of virginia for his undergraduate and masters and went off to teach at college teaching at the university of new orleans and at lamar university in texas. then he went into the administration to be a public information officer, associate vice president for public information. he was at gettysberg college and virginia tech and finished up his work at william and mary. i first met him in a class on woodrow wilson world war one and i know some people in the audience were in that class and other classes like it. as he told the stories of world war i and specifically making thosef o those of us that live in wilson s birthplace understand the meaning of that man and world war i. he talked about the research he was doing for his book in the classes and later on i would see
identify for us today but thank you so much again for being part of this panel. i know some of this participants so k? good afternoon. i know there are educators here what someone says good afternoon you give a stronger turn, good afternoon. i love it. thank you. iwant to apologize , the state is being held up in this case, they train the rail, not history so he had to drive here from dc. he should be coming soon. it will be here as well about 215, that show kicked me off and i m going to be sitting out here with you guys but i m excited about this. i am an artist but my title has always been about digital art and digital technology and coming down here when i start doing this i was taking about two different periods read on, before.com in the early 90s and early box office and how those two things help change the direction of a lot of black artists. those were two of the first times i thought, online before it came black planet were one of the fewplaces you can see black a
conversation with diane.on with please welcome diane and liz to the pratt library. [applause] hello. good evening. can you hear us? hello. this does work.l hear u well, i just wanted to start the conversation off by having diane tell you you have probably know of her as an actress but maybe you don t know her back story. so, i wanted to ask her to give us the briefest of instructions about her story, just to sort of structure and who she is. thank you. thank you, liz, thank you, judy, and thank you pratt library, and thank you to all of you for ing here today. feel so honored that you guys came out to hear me speak. i ll try my best. my name is diane guerrero. my parents are colombian immigrants. was born in new jersey but i was raised in boston. boston. anybody? no. yay! my parents came here with a visa in hopes i mean, this story changes sometimes between me and my dad. sometimes they say we were just going to see how check out the states or my mother had hope
bring back our military, can take care of our vets. our vets have been abandoned. we also need a cheerleader. what can we learn about donald trump from reading the art of the deal ? we can learn a lot i think and we should. when you are studying donald trump and i think everybody at this point in the country should be studying donald trump, the art of the deal is the foundational document and at this point it reads sort of, in retrospect, like a campaign playbook. first and foremost what i think we can learn from the art of the deal is that he is selling fantasy and using hyperbole. those are his words, not mine. in fact his words are i play to people s fantasy. people may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. that s why a little hyperbole never hurt. if people want to believe something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular, i call it truthful hyperbole. i think that s exactly what he is doing.
michael cruz, what can we learn about donald trump from reading the art of the deal? we can learn a lot and we should. when you re studying donald trump and i think everybody at this point should be studying donald trump heard this is a foundational document. it sort of reads like a campaign playbook. first and foremost, what i think we can learn is that he is selling fantasy and he s doing that using hyperbole. those are his words, not mine. in fact his words from the art of the deal are i play to people s family fantasies. people might not think big themselves but they can get excited by those who do. that s why a little hyperbole never hurts. people want to believe something is the biggest and the greatest in the most spectacular. i call it truthful hyperbole. that s exactly what he is doing. he s not ashamed to say that s what he does. i did write an article for the wall street journal and asked him if this was his play book hiding in plain sight and he first wa
percent of the american people did not vote and 80 percent of young people did not vote. so our job it seems to me in the next few months is to do some very obvious things. number one, we ve got to elect hillary clinton as the next president of the united states. [applause] number two, we have got to stay focused on the most important issue. it is not just about electing candidates. it is about transforming the country. [applause] now, the media are talking about the real issues but that s what the american people want to hear discussion about. they want us to create millions of jobs rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. they want us to make sure that public colleges and universities in this country are tuition free. they focus on the issues yet ordinary people and young people involved in the political process, what we are in the process of doing right now is transitioning our campaign into an organization that isgoing to encourage young people to get involved in politics
veterans outside of the system, so important. we are going to ensure every veteran in america gets timely access to top-quality care including the best care in the world for our female veterans. [cheers and applause] the veterans health system will remain a public system because it is a public trust but never again will we allow any veteran to suffer or die waiting for care. that means veterans will have the right to go to a va facility or the right to see a private doctor or clinic of their choice, whatever is fastest and best for the veteran. they ll be no more five-day waits in lines. if you re waiting in line, you re going to go a private doctor across the street, private hospital across the street nearby and be taken care of efficiently. people are waiting in line five days, six days and seven days and many dying for a simple procedure. we will pick up the bill. you have my word on that. [cheers and applause] come january 20th, if i m elected president you are going
transfer as an opportunity to deep end security and counter terrorism and cooperations of the united states. we welcome that and we look to facilitate that interest word exists. had the administration provided military training in exchange of taking in detainees and so to what extent and to which government. not to my knowledge, paul. ma am, that s somethin something that s something we have to talk about in a closed session. like night vision goggles or something like that. again, the negotiation of security of assurances is detailed and complex and to discuss any specifics, i have to talk to you about that in closed sessions. we are happy to do so. have the administration provided intelligent equipment or training or intelligent sharing to any government in exchange for accepting a detainee and if so to what extent and to what government? we have to talk about intelligent matter and closed session. the absence of any of these agreements would need to be disc