Highprofile former members of President Trumps administration. Now a highprofile critic an ambassador, john bolton. Welcome back. Got to be with you. Bolton, as you commit deeply that President Trump will take action against iran . I think the reports that he asks for options is fairly typical of the erratic idiosyncratic ill form that he makes decisions. The thought occurs to him that maybe it would be a good thing to do. Somethingbout it, and else attracts his attention. I do not think that is all likely. If anything, 30 days from now, he could be thinking about making a deal to go back into the nuclear deal. Theyll be par for the course within. Robert what are you hearing from inside . Mr. Bolton he is definitely not reconciled to having lost the election, that is for sure. I think he is being spun up by bad legal advice and bad political advice. Win. He has a chance to becky will never conceive that he lost. He will say that the election wasnt stolen from him. I am worried that in
No right. Whats your sense of whats driving this in the Mainstream Media that you are part of . First of all theres a bias against republicans in general. With reagan he is portrayed as stupid or dangerous, the same thing with trump, hes stupid and dangerous according to the media. They feel if they did there would be ostracized by the colleagues. For example, from for people wn the white house correspondents, cobol, among themselves they laugh at him, they mock him. That is the overriding theme. Many people just inherently cant think independently. Thats one reason i left college after two years like a few of the people, michael dell and gates. I did want to be told how to think. I did want to be told what to write. I wanted to get firsthand what actually happened and thats the way ive operated. I dont have blinders on. I like to penetrate secrets and thats what ive done in this book with all these details about the real donald. Its really a fun read. Explain what happened with Reince
Detroit. And at that time, we were then going to have events. And then in 2002, we joined a collective the three independent stores surety space. And that in 2013, we moved into the space that we are in now. And this is all in midtown detroit. So how far from the downtown area and detroit are you. About eight or 9 miles. Downtown is one district in detroit and then midtown is the next one after that in years ago, this was created like another part of the city. And that is another 7 miles beyond us. But we really are in the heart of the cultural life of the city with the universities, the library, the main library and the health centers, and a lot of galleries and africanamerican museums and historical exams so were in a wonderful cultural area of the city. I always call it the heart of the city. Host just a couple of blocks off of woodward avenue if people in detroit it. Janet the invention of the training goes up and down the road. If its 1 mile, and that 1 mile, i mean, one block so
In 2013, we moved into the space that we are in now. Midtown detroit. How far from the downtown area are you, in detroit. Eight or 9 miles. Downtown is one district, as they are saying now, in detroit. The next district after that. Years ago, new center was created, and another part of the city. That is another five or 7 miles up beyond us. We are really right in the heart of the cultural life of the city with the university, library, main library, wayne state university, the Health Centers in a lot of galleys and africanamerican museums, historical museums. We are in a wonderful, cultural rich area of the city. Really, the heart of the city. A couple blocks off woodward avenue. I mention the little train that goes up and down the road. 1 mile. Not 1 mile, one block. You turn left and you are right with it. [laughter] allison, what has the last month been like for you . We have to get used to having our doors shut because of the covid19 situation. We had to go into the very unfamiliar
Up next its booktv is monthly in Depth Program with author and Princeton University professor imani perry. Our books on race and africanamerican history include prophets of the hood, may we forever stand, and the recently published breathe a letter to my sons. Its a letter. Its a series of letters to my son, but of course, its also a letter to the larger world, both about, you know, the reality of the terror and anxiety and worries that comes along with being a parent of black children, and particularly black boys in the United States at this moment, but its also filled with my desire for them to lead a life of beauty and joy and excellence and selfregard. Much of which, i think, one finds a lessons for in an extraordinary tradition that we have to draw from. Where did you come up with the idea to write your sons a letter . Well, so, i actually have written them letters privately for years, but my editor, at beacon press said, is this something youd be interested in doing . In large pa