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democracy is over, the world is coming to an end, the germans are going to win, and we in the united states better adopt fascism and get rid of democracy if you want to survive. he said this publicly in a news paper so he wasn t going to get elected and he knew it. had they ever considered using a different plane for a very explosive mission, it seemed like it was a very not well constructed for what they were wanting to do. what was the rationale for using the plane that they did? the air force, they did something that was even riskier, they used war were warriors, that means planes that have been through a lot of combats but were not combat worthy anymore. they loaded them with explosives. the pd for why one, that the the navy used was pretty much brand-new, the reason it was used, both of these at aircraft s quite sturdy, but the real reason was it was the biggest thing they had. you could just pilot full of explosives. one of the problems they had was that these ....
assuming that there s nothing congress can do. but it s wrong and that it needs to change. fortunately there s bipartisan support to start that. it is encouraging to see that across the partisan spectrum and i think that has everything to do with the outside of the internet and i think that young people are not learning about constitution in gradeschool and high school and probably not plausible either. definitely not law school is. i suspect that s why you wrote this book because this is an engaging story about why the rules matter. we always talk about the rule of awe. i suspect that young people don t understand when we talk about the constitution. and to the words of the document itself and to the stories. that is why i wrote this book when people focus on it and where they come from. it comes to life and it becomes relevant. and it was not just something that was written by a bunch of dead white guys back in the late 1700s, it becomes real and tangible and ....
not just colorado and d.c. is doing it. i think there is a movement towards more openness either by making whatever drug is penalties there are much less or it legalizing it as in colorado. i am kind of libertarian. the idea that the federal government is going to tell us where state government everything we can and cannot do is appalling to me and we have really run up the cost of government by putting people in jail, prisons for what should be a minor offense. i would be all in favor of performing those laws. host: mickey edwards we often hear chris matthews on msnbc talk about how tip o neill and ronald reagan could find out they can have a drink at 5. was that your experience during the reagan years? guest: yes, i was very close to reagan. somebody complemented me the other day and i have declined to complement and they said you tend to be not full of certitude you are not very ideological and that s why you were able to work across the aisle. i said thank you ....
year from 2003 to 2004. host: what month of 2003? guest: i got there in may and i left in april. host: why do you refer to to the special ops guys as guest: many of these guys are still serving and i don t want to give away their identities. some i was able to on the conventional side. the folks on the unconventional side have been respectful to them and they have been respectful to me. the book really tells that relationship between the conventional and unconventional and how we operate together and it wasn t necessarily by design. like i said it was by geography and we worked very well and closely together. host: congressman russell you recount in we got him your conversation with paul wolfowitz. what did you tell him? guest: well he came to look at some of the afghan training efforts. secretary rumsfeld have asked that we train the iraqi army. i have had great experience in that area was training the afghan national army and was on the initial mission ....
you guys ready for whatever happens? absolutely. well, welcome, everybody. not just those of you in the room, but people watching this live on c-span. we are glad to have you here. i know by now we have been in this generation long enough i don t need to tell you to turn off your so phones or turn off the sound, but do if you don t mind turn off your cell phones. i want to welcome you all here, but i want to call special attention to we had two groups of students here at the aspen institute. we have a very exciting program on youth engagement, and we have .tudents here when we get to the q&a, you are as welcome as anybody else to ask questions, and i hope you will. let me start with a little story here to just get me started. in this environment we live in, which is so constantly contentious and uncivil. so, i run a program here that we started at the institute 12 years ago. it s called the rodale fellowship for public leadership. what we do is we go out every ....