And military spouses serving alongside their men and women. Philomena would you stand up and let everyone say hello . [applause] i want to thank the library for having me tonight that i brought along a bag of props which will explain themselves as we go along. I also want to thank my los angeles home, the answer for sale amid a group of which i am prey. We got great sponsors that are here tonight. The money guys, california collects windows. Radio would not exist in america but for terrific sponsors like these and across the United States if you listen to the radio listening to the people who put the radio on because without he would go away. And patronize them but i want to thank my partners at fox. They allow me a great deal of ability to go back and forth across the country and in the last three weeks i have appeared in succession on meet the press, face the nationstate of the union with chuck todd in John Dickerson and jake tapper. That means im not practicing law during that period of time and they overlooked that as i go back and forth. I very much appreciated. Im here to talk about this book, the queen and im holding it up for the benefit of our cspan prints from booktv. The epic and vision of hillary and the coming of the second clinton area theres a law called the loans law. If you watch frank luntz you know that he is the best media analyst in america when it comes to understanding Public Opinion in words that work in frank told me once if you dont say the name of the book seven times you wont sell the book. So im going to be talking about the queen all night long and if i mentioned the queen a lot because frank told me if i dont mention the queen a lot you wont remember the queen and i wont by the queen and with that i will put it aside and come back to the queen a little bit later. [applause] i was downstairs talking with mel and philomena about leadership. Mel serves an extraordinary role assisting people to become leaders and im currently we are going to organize at least nine and as many as 12 debates and we are going to have Media Partners and if a candidate goes to a debate not on our schedule they wont be on our schedule. Their rule that says in order to bring order and if you are going to be her media partner you were going to include conservative media voices, which is what a surprise, what a shock that in the gop president ial primary system you would actually allow someone from their side of the spectrum to ask questions that might be of primary interest to gop primary voters. That does not mean you exclude them and they will not be excluded, great journalist like chuck todd on meet the press or jake tapper of cnn or John Dickerson of cvs. I believe it, Chris Wallace megan kelly and all the rest of ocsla to be doing their turn with vesper at the same time journalists who are understood to be not merely observers of the participants in the process are going to be i am not the moderator, thank god. I love donald trump but i dont want to moderate his debate. Its going to be very hard. Donald trump has been my guest. All of the republicans are the nominees have been my guess on the radio and the one who is the most interesting and entertaining as always donald trump. He colors outside of the lines that he doesnt stay in his lane and it really doesnt matter what the question is that you asked. [laughter] and thats okay great thats fine, its great radio but i have been preparing shane gold mocker of the the National Journal wrote a cover story for the the National Journal about me and i was amused by this. I have never been a cover boy before and he said i was having a moment, a media moment and that makes me laugh because the media moment is like the rain we are having in california today in june that everybody notices it and it doesnt mean a thing. Its going to be over before you know it and nevertheless i take seriously these debates and i dont believe in ambush questions. I believe in preparation i want to talk a little bit about how you prepared to do this sort of thing and how you prepare to earn the praise of someone which is high praise indeed when someone says you run the best radio show in america and the twostar marion general you can start stand a little straighter and i talked about Stan Mcchrystal who said thats the best interview by long shot but i have ever been and when greg morell writes that in my book im happy. How do you get there and get ready for debate . First i want to think about banking booktv for being here. Im going to my bag here and there a lot of them so the they are going to pilot. First i hold up a book called sundays at eight by brian lamb. He came to my studio and we spent three hours. I hold up a second but from the first ladies of United States by susan swain who is also along with brian lamb one of the makers of booktv and i encourage all of you to let everybody know that booktv exists as an awaits us on the weekends for People Like Us who loathe hooks. The Nixon Library invites people to come here always authors and so does the reagan library. These are ways hes in the land of sound bytes were you actually have conversations. I think brian lamb and peter slen and the others and susan are so relentlessly fair and thorough that if everyone studies them the way i had been studying brain and charlie rose is the element does this very well you have a lot better media. The ones i have already mentioned jake tapper, chuck todd, John Dickerson they are all themselves authors. They have written very good books. A stranger by chuck todd. John dickerson were the great biography of his mother Nancy Dickerson and of course jake tapper wrote the outpost about a command post in a faroff province of afghanistan a history that is riveting and moving and actually very emotional to talk about and read about. If you take the time to watch the best in the business they are not only journalists, they are writers and their readers so i have been preparing for a long time for these debates by doing one thing which is what i want to encourage everyone in the audience to do which is to read widely and deeply into things in which you are not familiar. Im going to hold up a few books as examples of this. Coming soon to this library the fellow was in my studio yesterday, evan thomas wrote this book which im holding out for the benefit of the camera. Am i doing that right, guys . Is called being nixon. This is an unusual book. Evan thomas is part of the georgetown set. Hes a harvard man like i am but he was working for Katharine Graham and he has dug deep into the nixon story. I know there are some lovers of this book and not lovers of this book from the nixon family for which im a proud member but i found it compelling that i had them on for nearly two hours talking about nixon and coming to the library and i was web what i saw but evan even though he was not part of the Nixon Administration or part of the nixon family. He was able to treat fairly the strengths and weaknesses of the Great American grade when i asked him was a great man he said yes and i wrote a segment of saving israel and we talked about it and evan thomass relentlessly fair. Yes there are downsides in nixons career and their upsides to nixons career but they are relentlessly and chronologically covered in a fair fashion. Thats what we want our authors to do. The day after im talking to you i will be interviewing ted cruz about his new book a time for truth. The day after that i will welcome into my studio ambassador michael oran to talk about his new book, ally. This is not my reading copy. This is my signature copy. This is an incredibly moving book about the history of being an american you becomes an israeli and becomes a warrior and an ambassador. Im going to be able to ask about his real end this horrific deal we are about to sign with iran to the ambassadors because i will have read this book in a fairly chronicles and understands the perspective of the territories. He has been there and he has waged war there and he has been in gaza and he records at all. Its an amazing book that i will be prepared to ask questions of these candidates not because i know anything about gossip. Ive never been there. Ive been to israel but i havent been to the west bank but i have read through the eyes of someone who has and impressive as a result. Last week and im going to keep going up and down. Its not good for the cameras i know. Last week daniel silva was on for an hour. If you havent read his novel this is number 15. It comes on one hour every summer. This is the English Version could at least get an early. This is a readers copy and you cant have it. I told my kids that they would read the novels beginning with the english killer, the killer angels is what is called actually his first gabriel alone novel they would have history of modern times told through fiction but also it deeply enmeshed. They would understand a world in which they live through fiction. Not all just how did that get me ready to talk about the . Novelist take you to places like Putins Kremlin and they talk to people and they imagine places and they get you ready to ask questions of the putin primary. Ive been asking each of mike candidates assist victims are great victims are greater and i will ask for the benefit of the American People what you think Vladimir Putin would think of u. S. President because thats the putin primary and who would the least like to be the president of the United States . Would you rather have the former secretary of state whom he knows and gave him a button that read poorly in russian. He didnt really say reset. I will come to that again, or a ask Chris Christie a couple of months ago and he kind of laughed, who do you think putin would least like, guy from jersey and theres some quality to that. Combativeness is a quality. After that two books i want to talk about, three in fact. Im getting ready by reading Mary Katharine ham and because the left wants to and discussion about so many things and these are the things that we want to have a discussion about. You have seen, this is going to be on the bestsellers list. In the discussion is vitally necessary that we spend a whole day with my cohost tried to bring up the things that the left does not want america to talk about. They want to end the discussion and in fact we are not going to do that. We have to open the discussion but with questions that are framed in such a way that they will listen from 16 republican candidates informed of looks into how they would govern. These next two books are about the great war in which we are engaged. One is by Stan Mcchrystal, team of teams which is change the way i do my radio show already. Im sure the reason the Mcchrystal Group and mouse bees are in demand in the private sector as consultants as is because they bring clarity to a lot of confusion. They bring absolute certainty about method and not rigor. In team of teams when he talks about the war and he talks about how in iraq in 2003 took over special operations and by the time he left three years later it had increased by 1700 the number of missions they ran on a daily basis. How did they do that . Can you think of anything else that is improve 1700 the last five years . We talked to mouse bees and you talk to Stanley Mcchrystal and you talk to people who have been the hardest crucible of all. I want to know from these president ial candidates what they think of the current military leadership and the pentagon and if they judge it to be as broken as the ventures of this were believed to be and underfunded. This is a chilling book. Mike morell is here at this library probably at this podium in war of our time. For me to a pager for the cia not without its own controversy 33 years and that agency, two of them as acting director. The great war of our time he talks about the fact that unless you understand the story that was up to the end of the looming tower and i talk about the looming tower and ive asked all the candidates all 16 have you read the moving tower . Why do we do i do that . I dont think and understand the enemy we are involved with unless you have read the looming tower and read where radical islamists fundamentalism comes from mike morell in this book walks you through from 9 11 to the president when he left the caa where we are. We are in a very dangerous place. In fact in tunis this past weekend what happens in the United States in the next 16 months will frame and i wish to ask these candidates and i wish to ask the the believer. Did David Axelrod visit the Nixon Library . He should. This is the open in kimono. The life spent on the left between obama and everybody in between he was behind with three weeks to go. A was a big mitt romney fame and if you want to know to ask the republican question read said democrat books. And another book on the 2012 election. How low do prepared to ask republicans questions . You read the of books everyone who is a journalist of for years and democrats then you sit down to begin to ask yourself what would you ask hillary if you could ask a question . From that process cave the queen. One year ago they called viet to say would lead to a book on 2016 . But 2016 matters a great deal. President of Hillsdale College theyre all available three years worth of dialogue you can bid to listen and i would strongly recommend that this point antiiraq said douglas and lincoln debate covering a lot of ground in five years. And the prince was published 500 years ago with some uncertainty as to when it was published. And it was the most aid moral book ever written it is the dividing line in political theory for a reason about using power not necessarily for a good purpose. It talks about how you keep a dynasty going written from the opponent of the regime. To be an official in the republic of florence so he writes from exile to, of letter on how to govern. How should i take the advice or to revise mrs. Clinton . He says sometimes you can only see them mountain if youre on the plane is sometimes if you are a republican you should read the democrats books. And it is good device. [laughter] folks who have read the book nine of this is tongue in cheek . No. If i were her up platform on which i went run and facing opposite i wouldnt tell you everything and the purpose to write the book is to have you buy it the once you to buy 100 million but every single weekend she gets aggravated. [laughter] because the Nixon Library doesnt sponsor political speeches. If you act like the cui you should be expected to be talked to me and advise like a queen and so far former secretary of state clinton is acting like a queen. With a 70 not the primary. And is missive of Vice President by dint to cast a wary glance at john kerry and switzerland was preparing to have an accomplishment do clash with her accomplishment free tenure as secretary of state. And to have a catastrophic tenure as a department of state so as is raise about offer health and if you have nothing on which to run what you do . I suggest a platform that to let the people decided campaign against the Electoral College even privilege from the 18th century. [laughter] written by white males in the 18thcentury it is easily run against and you will never see a president ial candidates did in kansas again. And there is a search of lowquality but hillary does not need that she needs to sell the people of the idea that is unfair that it doesnt work as much but right now how many if you are a californian . You dont matter. [laughter] in this election in florida and virginia ohio and colorado matter. To a lesser extent New Hampshire and nevada and maybe arizona but the really those for the first for is to matters that is everything will be spent that they will not be nominated because we have a less than ideal system but it gives said that reality running against Electoral College to make sense that you dont matter. That is a very bad idea elements the presence to two terms if she runs against the 22nd amendment sheave brands in favor of obama is returned george w. Bush with the idea that bill clinton would have done a better job but she appeals to the bush lovers the reagin finance and those that feel strongly there candidate was the best ever. Whoever Cleveland Alexander try to compete for but he did it because he was the necessary man. But the republicans did not like that with the reflexive kneejerk reaction is a very bad idea. She had a run on letting the of people decide to do away with term limits that might be very bad for us if the election comes along. How bad they that would have been for the country to campaign or change at that point but to rebuild the National Defence there used to be scooped jack said democrats who ran for president in 1976 as Strong Defense democrat who offer the jackson amendment and often called the senator from boeing and the reagan democrats with a Scoop Jackson in that were enchanted with jimmy carter and they cave in to the party and the queen says they ought to read seriously on a platform to remember the turn around that occurred it was led by secretary of defense bill brown and encouraged by jimmy carter and that is not happening right now. Has a terrific undersecretary but i went to the Retirement Ceremony there was the speaker and assembly of california. Wouldnt it be great if everyone supported the department of defense again . [applause] we would not be trending to the 2. 5 percent gdp spending without pugn