many ways a capital of reinvention and hope in the world. and america in that same time period, as the president reminded us, painfully on tuesday night, seems to be becoming something else. and that is the great drama of our time in many ways. you have a column where you right about this, i think the column is going to be posted tomorrow. what is much more threatening to the american future, you write, is the american idea itself. now lived by people have a world away, even as it withers at home. america has inspired with its can-do frontier culture of self-help and self-making. millions of people in india and china and elsewhere to believe in the creed of reinvention and has taught the ordinary to dream and dare in for a corners of the world where dreaming and daring are still almost criminal. and we see it now playing out in india and china and other places, and it s kind of shrivelled here at home. it s amazing to me, you know, when i was a child and i would go to india on thes
doing what india and china are doing, which is creating a culture of hope and of creation. i think you said that your sister worked at google and at one point you and your sister had both gone back to india and your parents are here in shaker heights saying, what have we done wrong? she was thinking about going there, and my mother wondered what happens if we left in the 70s and now both of my kids end up back in india. but you re back here, and we re glad to see you up there at cambridge, at harvard. thank you very much. the book is india calling and we all look forward to reading it. and thanks for joining us today. and what political story will be making headlines in the next 24 hours? that s next. but first, florida s grand piano mystery finally solved. for weeks, no one knew just how a burned out piano ended up on this sand bar in florida. what it was doing there and who it even belonged to. this morning, the 16-year-old so-called culprit came forward to face the musi
out, 25 seats would be the big difference, though. we need 25 seats to win the house of representatives back for the working class and middle class families. and it s not my style that s important, it s how we put this house in play. rahm emanuel, i worked with him and worked under him at the dccc. he was aggressive. i ve been in new york politics with chuck schumer. he s aggressive. i kind of that sense of assertiveness, but without some of the curse words, but with a little bit of a smile. rahm won the house back, chuck schumer won the senate win hope to have the same success as they did. well, steve israel, thanks so much for joining us today. thank you. and we look forward to talking to you a lot in this next couple of years, as you work on that. thanks, andrea. the south african government today is downplaying an overnight hospital stay of former president nelson mandela. the nobel peace prize laureate spent the night in a