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When we look at the law of Impeachment, it includes what past Congresses have done. And so that's precedent, that a president can be impeached for lies.

And I will say, as a matter of professional jealousy, I don't know where you found the time to do it. You also wrote a novel called "The Hellfire Club"

They're making it into a TV show now on HBO Max

There's another member of your family that came out with a book

Well, my daughter Alice, who's now 12 but when she was something like 9 or 10 she noticed that something was happening in her school where girls in her class were not raising their hand as much and boys were raising their hand much more

And so she has a book called "Raise Your Hand" and she did that last, like early 2019

The U.S. government sued me for publishing Decent Interval without the CIA's approval, even though nobody ever accused me of publishing any secrets in the book.

And all of the profits from Decent Interval, my profits were forfeited to the government.

And even then when we published Strange Justice, which came out in 1994, we said the preponderance of evidence appears to make it seem that Clarence Thomas lied.

He was also a member of the National Association of the Able-Bodied and Right at a Young Age and he famously said that, quote, knowledge is the pathway from slavery to freedom. End quote.

Douglass, as you may know, authored several notable works and biographies, was an avid debater, and was unintentionally nominated as a vice president to presidential nominee Victoria Woodhull of the Equal Rights Party in 1872, though he declined the nomination.

We know he was a very close friend of Kavanaugh's. We know they were at parties a lot. We know he worked at Safeway. We know from his book that he was an alcoholic.

And we also have Kevin Phillips's very, very important book, The Emerging Republican Majority, in which he says, you know, if we just double down on this strategy and on trying to grab Catholics, Democratic Catholics into our coalition over issues of social traditionalism, which by 1970 became the issue of abortion, then we've got a majority for the future.

I was a huge fan of the TV show, The Americans. I just thought it was beyond brilliant.

I think it's along with The Sopranos and The Wire, I think it's one of the three great shows that has ever aired on American television.

And when you go through that series and the Jennings, Kerry Russell tells the daughter that in fact they're Russian spies, I look back on my own life thinking about that period of time in the 1980s that the show is focused on.

the day before the 1913 presidential inaugural Woodrow Wilson arrived at Union Station in Washington expecting to be greeted by a big crowd and he got off the train and there was basically nobody there there was the Princeton Glee Club that was it and they had something that was you know and the New York Times reported that they made up in enthusiasm what they lacked in numbers you know they were they were in the tank for Wilson but finally Wilson's aide said to the host where are all the people and they said oh they're down at Pennsylvania Avenue watching the suffrage parade

on Pennsylvania Avenue it was the first great protest march in the country's history in Washington D.C. it was 5,000 women marching down Pennsylvania Avenue for the 19th amendment for the right to vote and they were led by a young woman on a white horse carrying a banner dressed as a Greek goddess and her name was Inez Mulholland and she's one of the amazing figures in American history that people don't know about she was a recent graduate of NYU School of Law where you teach and where the Brennan Center is affiliated

5,000 women behind her and on either side 100,000 men most of them drunk they were there for the inaugural and the the men started spitting and throwing things and broke through the police lines and beat up the women a hundred women went to the hospital it was a huge deal Inez Mulholland had to fight her way through the crowd with her horse and it was a big deal the police chief of Washington D.C. had to resign

the publicity for this overshadowed the presidential inaugural in many ways and immediately public opinion began to swing toward support for women's suffrage seeing these marchers attacked violently attacked for peacefully demanding their rights and you know it sounds just like Selma and you realize that this was years before Selma and it was years before so many of these tactics were so common and it still took several years but they won the right to vote

when the 19th amendment passed if you think about it it doubled the size of the electorate in terms of a constitutional guarantee and so you know we've we've had to wage this fight over and over again

yeah so the the name of the book is called five days and um it's really about five days in baltimore through the eyes of eight different people and and the five days in baltimore that i capture are really the five days around the unrest that took place around the death of freddie gray and this was a you know exactly you know five five years ago that this all happened and it was amazing because one of the things that i've found even now and what we saw back then is that you know freddie gray died in the hands of you know he died in police custody and this this was also during a time when this was taking place all throughout the country where you know that the guardian reported that even during that summer of 2015 over 100 african americans died at the hands of police violence and what was really interesting about it was as i continued to dig into this we saw that that what happened to freddie at that time was about the dangers and the horrors of excessive police force and excessive police violence but the truth is that even if you look at the two years before freddie gray in baltimore in the baltimore region alone there was also you know there was anthony anderson and there was chris brown and there was tyrone west right there was the other people who who had similar circumstances and similar interactions that led to a similar fate but there was something else about this about this moment that really triggered something different and one of the things that really captured me about this story and about you know really wanted to dig in through the lives in those five days in baltimore through the eyes of these eight people was the as heartbreaking as freddie gray's death was what was also heartbreaking was his life.

Everyone should carry one of these.

So, Preet, the spirit to me is more important than specifics. I'm proud of specifics I've captured here. But, you know, the spirit is there is no magic calvary that's going to emerge. That is all of us. And this is going to be a close election.

Make your own plan for this election.

So first, if you live in a battleground state. So I was in the last two days in North Carolina and Florida and saying the whole world's counting on you.

If you hadn't been a precinct leader before in Hillary's campaign or Obama's, consider doing that. If you're doing four hours a month, can you do 12? If you haven't been doing a lot of social media where you're sharing content and fighting against disinformation, do that.

Nobody Knows Anything

Ronan Farrow, The War on Peace, W.W. Norton & Company, 2018

Dickerson: "The Hardest Job in the World," The Atlantic, May 2018

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I just wrote a book called Sailing True North, 10 Admirals and the Voyage of Character and I profiled 10 historical admirals going back 2,500 years.

If you look at the extraordinary novel Killer Angels by Michael Schara about the generals in the Civil War, including Grant, but really the generals who were at the Battle of Gettysburg.