is not a bad idea. but at the bottom it says the two reactors are 14.2 billion dollars. wait. many of you have gone through the bush no child left behind education program relays saying half of 14 is seven. not five. $2 billion difference per reactor. that in my neighborhood is money. in the old days it was fraud. but here, something interesting about corporation people. if you commit a fraud, you go to jail. if you commit racketeering, you go to jail. i used to do racketeering cases. but if you are a power company corporation people including stoner webster loweation to the congo i was justin comco a couple weeks ago. that's why i've invited friendse of congo because friends of will occupy wall street crossed the bridge and said where do we go next? they went to the avenue which ii friends ofs of hemisphere which is a company congo here because in the york last week those and occupy wall street crossed the brooklyn bridge. where do we go next? they went to the office which is a company that got a piece of paper, add debt owed buy condos i year and from that they took $100 million out of counsel of pay? that is a story that payment of bosnia it is looking for criminal charges of the debt that should not exist anymore. go to the congo and i need to in go. he is a 14 year-old kid like my son. i have twins. who has cholera. in the 21st century? you get cholera from bad water. water. it is pretty easy to fix. $1,200 you dig a well. congo sold $80 million of callable. it is sold when i went to the condo -- congo unicef planes coming in we will dig enough wells to give 40 million people clean water to end cholera. i said no you are not. because the vultures goldfingers group did and and this vulture fund turns out to be a two car garage. when we cross the bridge that is what holds $80 million of the condos wealth. that is where the clean water when. it is a complicated story. what is he saying? i'm sorry. get the book. [laughter] you do. because you've really have to have something when your brother-in-law says i don't know what they are doing. i do recommend the hardbound book to educate them. [laughter] you cannot do that with the ipod. [laughter] you don't go to wal-mart. that is what the vultures do. in the case of zambia i tell you all of this is on the nightly news out there. under british law we have to give this information we have to give all evidence to the targets of investigation. so? and tell us. bp did you coverup the blowout or did you bribe? they said we follow the rules. i said that does not sound like a denial. i am not hearing denial. the case of zambia zambia, $3 million was paid to this so-called favorite charity of the president chalupa. buy mr. goldfinger and his buddies. the president's favorite charities seem to be the president he took his money and follow the trail he took the money to his bank. of course, it is in geneva swaziland so we followed his trail and he stopped to go shopping before he went to the bank and stopped into a boutique and spent about $1 million cash on 200 pairs of elevator shoes. 90 leisure suits. diamond studded ties. how do we know this? because this bad penny you will meet her in "vultures' picnic" she speaks about four languages quite fluid the 12 accent's and wonderful fashionable disguise his a.m. looks like a tv star so she can get permission to say we're from a reality tv show called a shot being with the rich and famous by eight -- speaking local alpine tour mysia switching to french and anybody rich and famous shop here? the president of zambia was it just year 200 per se shares. we put it on the air. what this guy did was sign papers allowing goldfinger to basically pick up tens of millions of dollars. where does zambia get that? that is the money we gave them for aids medicine. nice. we try to ask about it here. we had a stake out. american television's stations don't do stake out. we do. we have to ask politely seven times will you please explain this to us? and if you don't we will do something american tv doesn't do. we will come to you. with the papers at dawn to ask you about it. so mr. goldfinger. we put this on the air. we put this story on the air of endo this dolan securities from bosnia, the cholera epidemic. even where i met with the president of liberia. we're tracking another vulture fund i knew a woman of five fingers open hand i know the professor likes to play games with me one figure was inside her cabinet. there is somebody inside and they have good to cold. she got them. don't know which one but she got them. we put this on the year. the british parliament all parties made in this culture activity illegal in britain. germany, holland, made it illegal. [applause] china you cannot collect this money. basically the entire civilized world and uncivilized. they have made this, they have made them outlaws. in other words, mr. romney billionaire and mr. goldfinger in the rest of the owe% and the rest of the world are outlawed, we are outlaws but in america their job creators. [laughter] that is why we occupy. we it occupied for stanley mattingly in jason alexander come on the deepwater horizon for the chief and his sons. etauk. janessa under the pipe that exploded. and also a farmer in fukushima with a farm that is poisoned forever. and four endo and the cholera quarantine center. that is why we occupied because it is not about the real estate. it is not about tens or t.a.r.p. or any of that. it is about them and us. and as i say in the book, just to read one little paragraph, there is only one story. that is what i am investigating. it is all one story. it is about them and us. they get home is bigger than disneyland we get foreclosure notices they give private jets and we get tarballs and lost futures and pay their gambling debts with our pensions. they get the third trophy wife and the tax break and we get subprime. they get to candidates and we're told to choose but they get the gold mine and we get the shaft. i will be signing books and answering your questions out there. go to "vultures' picnic".org this is about the information job creators or vultures waiting for us to die to feast? waiting for the economy is to die to feast? i have not even got into the goldman sachs chapter. [laughter] that is what is inside "vultures' picnic" go to "vultures' picnic".org to download the first chapter. that is against my publishers corporate policy. download the first chapter spread the information around. because i want you to have the information about the 1% to answer the question why reoccupy. i want to mr. singer, a goldfinger in the rest of the gang and stoner webster no matter what shape they have shifted into, to know that the picnic is over. in fact, i agreed on one thing. i want him to get everything that is coming to him. [laughter] [applause] he may be toto talk about the life and career of american diplomat richard holbrooke who passed away in december of 2010. this is about an hour. >> good evening everybody. thank you so much for being here tonight. my name is lissa muscatine i'm one of the owners of politics and prose and on behalf of my honor and co-owner of the booksellers' we welcome all of you to this evening's event which by the way for those of you that are not regulars here is one of about 475 author defense that we do every year and it's part of our mission not only to bring great books to the community but also to promote civic discourse which is which seems comes in greater scarcity so we love to have these eve ensler you can listen to authors and ask them questions so think you for joining us. there's a couple quick housekeeping these before we get started our guests will speak about half an hour, 25 minutes or half an hour and they will be happy to take questions. we ask you to state your name as a courtesy for people in your question know who you are or at least a little bit to your. at the end of the program if he could fool the pure chairs and put them at the site of the room that would be helpful to the staff and then will be a line for me going in this direction for book signing at the end so with that the last thing i ask is if you please turn off your cell phones before we get started would be greatly appreciated. it's delightful and a great pleasure for me and brad and the store to have strobe talbott and kati marton here to talk about the unquiet american in the world. there are no to people better suited to talk about this extraordinary larger than life force of man richard holbrooke and to talk about the book. by the way, neither of them are strangers to the store. they both have had their own readings here in the past and strobe has multiple the multiples. i was joking he might hold the record and of richard holbrooke was here for his book at the end of that he wrote after the peace accords call to end the war. there are also to people who may popping at some point you aren't going to speak tonight but i would love to at least mention and if they do show up will introduce them, the editors of the book derek chollet and some and the power as you know has been one of president obama's foreign policy adviser of the national security council on multilateral affairs and human rights. and she also has a very touching a say in this book about being mentored by richard holbrooke. derrick was actually a colleague of mine and i hope he does come. he's one of my favorite people and wonderful to work with. he and i had offices at the end of a short hallway at the office of policy planning at the state department for the first couple of years of the obama administration and i believe he insisted that it was time for me to finally turn over a draft a very unpolished draft of a speech i had written for secretary clinton before the nato defense dealing with afghanistan and pakistan. i was inexperienced speechwriter and worked in the clinton administration for years and i know richard. i'd been in meetings with him and i worked with him kind of on the fringes of some of what he had done but i never actually had to deliver a written work to him for judgment and so knowing that he was widely referred to as the bulldozer i approached this task with a fair amount of trepidation to skill myself and gave him the drafting of course i was prepared for the antics and fireworks and this is the worst thing i've ever written but i quickly discovered was that there was no better person in the world to read a speech and i really started realizing richard holbrooke thinks in speeches and he was my favorite person to have read a speech thereafter and i was very fortunate to be able to work with him not just on that particular speech on several subsequent ones while i was in the state department. derrick anderson and the with a lot of input, and i think this is really a colavita conception of this book between kati amstrup and samantha because after richard passed away last december, there was this outpouring about him and everybody was trading stories and as i said he was a force of nature so there were many stories to gore now come and they conceived of putting together a collection of essays written by people who knew them well. there were 12 in the book does allow us some of his writings from the decades and those were fascinating to read. when you go back and see what he was thinking at the time in vietnam for example and subsequent foreign policy it is quite extraordinary to look at in retrospect and really well worth reading. let me move on to the people you want to hear from which are stroke and kati. stroke of course is the president of the brookings institution and former said he believed the deputy secretary of state and highly regarded journalist at "time" magazine and it was interesting - but this today both you and richard have managed to fuse for journalistic skills and sensibilities with your diplomatic skills and sensibilities to extraordinary effect kind of amazingly to see these guys who bring all these things together in the way that they go about their lives and their work. he was of course a friend and an intellectual sparring partner of richard holbrooke. i hope maybe he will tell the trampoline story but in case he doesn't, it's in the book. so you might want to leave it for the book and then they have to buy the book and read the story. but thank you so much for being here stobe. and kati marton of course is a journalist from exceptional journalist in her own right. it is in her jeans. her parents were both reporters in their native country of hungary. they were jailed, falsely accused and jailed before the revolution. right after the revolution they came to this country. she went on to become a reporter at npr and abc news and she also has been the head of the committee to protect journalist and i think it's fair to say that kati has been a major force behind her husband's accomplishments. they were married in 1995 at really the worst part of the balkan war back and one of the things i've written this book is that during the dayton peace accord meetings she was assigned to sit between slobodan milosevic and his bosnian counterpart, and hurt orders from holbrooke were make them talk to each other. and i gather that his wife was also given a similar mandate at a different tenor, i'm sorry, but i say? i'm sorry, stobe. they didn't change wives as far as i know. [laughter] in washington you never know but evidently they really didn't. sorry about that. yes. also, you may not know that richard also went to hillary clinton a little before this to get hurt your so she could draw attention to bosnia during her husband's administration so i just want to say that it did occur to me that when richard wanted to get things done he knew who to turn to, the women. so, anyway, kati has provided a marvelous introduction to the book in her words that's wonderful, and i just want to end and introduce them with one quote from the last line of the preface to the book which is written by garate and samantha, and they say holbrooke may never have been a quiet man, but he was the first to say that in love he was a very lucky man and with that please join me in welcoming strobe talbott and kati marton. [applause] >> thank you so much, lisa coming and it is a pleasure to be back at my favorite bookstore. i think this is my fifth event. i've written seven books, and five of them have been launched here, so i am just delighted that politics and prose has gone on to greater heights and strengths under these wonderful new owners and thank you all for coming out this evening to hear stobe and i talk about our beloved richer. between the two of us, we cover the personal and the professional holbrooke but it would take more than two of us to really penetrates every corner of this mind and this is a towering personality who has left all of us changed. shortly after pritchard passed away, and will be an believably a year in three weeks i reflected on an interview that i had made with lady bird johnson for my book on presidential marriages in which she said lyndon stretched me and that is what richard did for me, she stretched knee and left me quite transformed and in some ways i didn't realize that until he left and he had a way of penetrating our souls, and i know i'm not the only one who feels that way. because he was the most opinionated person i have ever met, the most probably the most argumentative, the most forceful personality and in the 17 years i was richard i never heard him spot a cliche or pass on additional wisdom or say anything and for that i am so grateful because i feel as if i have a ph.d. richard holbrooke and it is the richest legacy anyone could be left with. as craft as i am i feel that he has prepared me for whatever comes next in an unbelievable way as he did for so many of us. i think part of the reason that there has been this outpouring of love, and i can't think of another reason other than love is because he did penetrate so many of us because to cope quite simply because he gave a damn, i've never known such a man who gave such a damn. he had a dog in every fight. you remember foreign secretary of state who gave slobodan milosevic courage by saying we don't have a dog in the fight. richard holbrooke had eight fight in balkans but he also had a fight in the battle against aids, in the battle for refugees right to return to their homeland and in countless other fights he gave a damn and he didn't mind letting you know, he didn't mind stepping on toes, he did a fair amount of that. i think that stobe and i were both astonished with the speed at which the tributes poured in. it seemed like hours after his passing the tributes from around the planet and. it's not an exaggeration. i've seen alive now collected headlines about his passage, and i don't know if i have experienced anything of the like. this isn't a man who ever reached the job that he hoped to reach as the secretary of state this isn't a man that got the nobel peace prize for which he was six times nominated and in my view desert for ending the war, and yet he is the american with a single man holbrooke and he continues to represent a style of diplomacy and the engagement which the world would like to see more of from our country. the sense that america has a big role to play in the world, but not based on the force of arms, an america that is based on values, an america that is based on the surgeon moral principles and that is not afraid to lead and to engage. that was richard come and of course we miss him terribly. with richard there was no separation between the personal and professional. as a result, we shared everything. a center for 17 years he didn't miss a single day wherever he was in calling home. so this may come as a surprise to some. he was a very good husband. how he found the time to be such a caring for and to so many literally thousands of people and i say that now with some authority because i think i've had letters from most of them. i spent the first few weeks after richard's passing reading letters and we've been through them and letters of such quality i don't think i've received a single pro-forma condolence note. there were letters obviously written as much for the sake of the person writing them as for me. people seem to want to capture that interaction with this man with the sense that -- sorry. that he would not come again. or that his like. there was -- sorry. this is hard but it's important which is why i do. you know, sudden death makes you feel the absolutely helpless. so i decided after richard doggett without any warning we were laughing on the phone an hour-and-a-half before making our christmas plans, so no warning. this was a thunderclap in the middle of life i decided that yes i would speak out about richard because that is something that within my powers and i also felt that as engaged as richard was in the lives of so many people come and a boy did he love to give advice, he was not equally open about his own emotional landscape, not at all. he was actually a very private man. he didn't like talking about himself. he liked to talk but there was never a better talkers than richard holbrooke. but he liked to talk about policy and the dreams for his country and about his friends come in and he loved to make his friends talk. but i wanted to kind of it out another dimension to that holbrooke, the holbrooke that all of you saw regularly on the charlie rose show or in washington. he was as david brooks, i love david brooks called after richard past in which he said that richard holbrooke's def is like driving in colorado and suddenly looking at to find that the rockies were gone. isn't that a great line? so i wanted to add another dimension to that which is the personal man, and because he was a very good man quite simply, and i wanted people to know that there was a private holbrooke, and in addition to the public one.