into their subject s book tv weekends. they bring you author after author afterauthor . it s all the work of fascinating people. i love book tv and i m a c-span fan. c-span: created by america s television companies and brought to you as a public service by your cable or satellite provider. afterwords is next on tv with senator mitch mcconnell talk about his life and politics with senator lamar alexander. this is a book about a shy boy who grew up in alabama, overcame polio, was inspired by henry clay at the university of louisville to become a senator, did. then set out to be the majority leader of the united states senate and did but mitch, i have a confession to make. when i was asked to do this, here is what i thought. how can anyone get mitch mcconnell to talk for an hour? because in your own book, you point out that you only the press when it s to your advantage. you talk about a time when bill gates came in to see you and the two of you just sat there and people
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.
facebook.com/booktv. there has been no experience more challenging, more rewarding and more humbling than raising our daughter. and we have learned that to raise a happy, healthy and hopeful child it takes a family. it takes teachers. it takes clergy. it takes business people. it takes community leaders. it takes those who protect our health and safety. it takes all of us. [applause] .. to raise the village you don t just make family come you don t need each other in the community can you need a president and you need no clinton. host: amie parnes, what do you hear? guest: pioneer and a strong message of what she is trying to put out today, which is stronger together. her newest campaign message, she has had quite a few of them. this is not made where she is trying to reach out and send her populist message and say we are all in this together me. it is interesting to hear what she had to say that anakin carrots two where she is today. host: hasn t been consistent? g
and, you know, there s a great deal of anti-semitism, there s discrimination across the line, and that is demonstrated in how we treat our veterans when they return back to this country and homelessness, children and women and men are hungry. and so many people in america today, i think, are really afraid of what s happening. and part of that, i think, that mr. trump has been able to hit on is the kind of fear that people are dealing with, but they are unable to deal with realities of what we all have to deal with. and i was wondering if you could speak about that a bit. well, quite i think that was a very eloquent statement, and i don t feel as though i have anything to add to that. [laughter] yeah. so let me ask one sorry, did you want what does ghetto mean? what s the definition of the word? well [inaudible] she asked what does ghetto mean literally. i mean, ghetto basically has meant different things in different eras. and in the book i actually talk a
their besides the studying that i have to do. there has been no experience more challenging, more rewarding and more humbly than raising our daughter. and we have learned that to raise a happy, healthy and hopeful child, it takes a family. it takes teachers. it takes clergy. it takes business people. it takes community leaders. it takes those that protect our health and safety. it takes all of us. [cheers and applause] yes, it takes a village. host: carlos lozada, when hillary clinton uses the term it takes a village, what do you think she means? guest: she starts with the family. she quickly moves beyond the family. she talks about a network of people of institutions and values. so teachers, neighbors, businesses, employers, even of course politicians as you see here in the clip. teresa village komeito justina family, each other, community. you need a president. you need bill clinton. host: amie parnes, what do you hear? guest: i am hearing a very strong message