please welcome ben mezrich. hello everybody, thank you for coming out on a friday night. it s getting getting a little chilly but it s still nice out and i appreciate everyone coming on a friday night. i will get to once upon a time in russia in just a few minutes but i know whenever i go see a band i always hate it when they never play the hits. i want to do a little bit of the hits first and how i got to the story. i never set out to be a nonfiction writer or a journalist. as a kid i always hated nonfiction and i didn t read much of it. i was obsessed with television and bad tv like say by the bell m3 s company and all of that crap. my parents, fearing the worst, made a rule at home that we had to read two books a week before we were allowed to watch tv. so at a very young age i became a speed reader so i could watch tv. i watched everything. by the time i graduated from college i knew i wanted to be a writer. i wrote and i wrote and i wrote nine novels in a year. i don t
amber? reporter: julie, the sheriff s department tells us, the woman accused of impersonating the nurse was arrested at this parking lot behind valley medical center. investigators are still looking at why she did it, and for how long. 29-year-old crystal cook of felton is facing two charges of impersonating a county employee, and possessing a fake hospital id card. because the charges are misdemeanors, she was released not long after she was arrested friday. looks very familiar to me. we showed the hospital worker this photo of cook. when was the last time you saw her? i don t know exactly the time, but the face is very familiar. several times? i have seen this face. you see the face, and you remember. that s what i think i have seen her face. reporter: valley medical center says an employee with cal star, an air ambulance service alerted the hospital thursday afternoon, after seeing cook s postings on facebook, claiming to be a hospital employee. one of
amber? reporter: julie, the sheriff s department tells us, the woman accused of impersonating the nurse was arrested at this parking lot behind valley medical center. investigators are still looking at why she did it, and for how long. 29-year-old crystal cook of felton is facing two charges of impersonating a county employee, and possessing a fake hospital id card. because the charges are misdemeanors, she was released not long after she was arrested friday. looks very familiar to me. we showed the hospital worker this photo of cook. when was the last time you saw her? i don t know exactly the time, but the face is very familiar. several times? i have seen this face. you see the face, and you remember. that s what i think i have seen her face. reporter: valley medical center says an employee with cal star, an air ambulance service alerted the hospital thursday afternoon, after seeing cook s postings on facebook, claiming to be a hospital employee. one of
this went way beyond that. as o reilly drills down on the president s ability and his willingness to do this job and listen as secretary panetta tells the nation the real questions he thinks we ought to be asking. have you ever heard barack obama in your conversations with him as cia chief and defense secretary say, i was wrong, i made a mistake? i heard him admit to mistakes. the real question is whether or not you learn from those lessons and then do the right thing. obviously, in your book you don t think he s learned from the lesson. i m seeing a president, all right, from your eyes, former cia chief, former defense secretary, who is either incapable or doesn t understand the dangers that the united states faces. that s the message i m getting from you. i think this president is smart enough to understand the dangers. the real question is can he translate that into the kind of action that will help protect this country. would i be wrong and a mean guy to say i d
as o reilly drills down on the president s ability and his willingness to do this job and listen as secretary panetta tells the nation the real questions he thinks we ought to be asking. have you ever heard barack obama in your conversations with him as cia chief and defense secretary say, i was wrong, i made a mistake? i heard him admit to mistakes. the real question is whether or not you learn from those lessons and then do the right thing. obviously, in your book you don t think he s learned from the lesson. i m seeing a president, all right, from your eyes, former cia chief, former defense secretary, who is either incapable or doesn t understand the dangers that the united states faces. that s the message i m getting from you. i think this president is smart enough to understand the dangers. the real question is can he translate that into the kind of action that will help protect this country. would i be wrong and a mean guy to say i don t believe barack obama h