WE CAN HAVE NO 50/50 ALLEGIANCE
IN THIS COUNTRY.
EITHER A MAN IS AN AMERICAN OR
HE IS NOT AN AMERICAN AT ALL.
A GREAT AMERICAN JOINING US
TONIGHT, BEST SELLING AUTHOR
JOHN O NEIL, HIS LATEST WORK
CALLED "THE FISHERMAN'S TOMB.
THE TRUE STORY OF THE VATICAN'S
SECRET SERGE "PUBLISHED BY OUR
SUNDAY VISITOR.
IT'S GREAT TO HAVE YOU WITH US.
CONGRATULATIONS ON THE BOOK.
I NEVER EXPECTED TO BE SO
INTRIGUED BY A BOOK.
QUELL DONE
.UELL DONE
.WELL DONE IF I MAY SAY.
>> IT'S AN AMAZING STORY.
THE WOMAN ARCHAEOLOGIST REMINDS
ME A LOT OF YOU.
I HEARD YOU 20 YEARS AGO SAY
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO AGREE WITH
ME TO A CROWD.
BUT THESE TRADE DEALS WERE BAD.
I THINK MOST OF THEM WOULD AGREE
WITH YOU NOW.
>> THAT'S VERY KIND OF YOU.
AND IT'S GREAT TO HAVE YOU HERE.
I HOPE THAT MOST WILL AGREE --
IN WASHINGTON IT MIGHT BE A
TOUGH FIGHT AS YOU KNOW.
BUT "THE FISHERMAN'S TOMB" IT IS
FASCINATING.
IT GREW OUT OF YOUR TRIP TO THE
VATICAN AND ALL THAT YOU SAW,
WAS IT 2007, AND THAT INSPIRED
YOU TO WRITE THIS BOOK ABOUT THE
ROCK OF THE CHURCH
>> I WENT WITH MICHAEL NOVAK AND
I SAW WHAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF
WHAT IS NOW THE HOTTEST TICKET
IN ROAM.
AND I LEARN THAT PETER WAS
THERE.
I THEN -- I HAD CLOSE FRIENDS IN
HOUSTON, A FAMILY THERE, AND
THEIR GRANDFATHER, GEORGE DRAKE,
HAD ACTUALLY FINANCED THE ENTIRE
THING SECRETLY.
HE HAD GIVEN AWAY HUNDREDS OF
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS SECRETLY
ANONYMOUSLY TO PROJECTS OF THE
POPE, INCLUDING THIS ONE.
THEY BEGAN IN 1940.
FINALLY IN 1952, A REMARKABLE
WOMAN CAME IN, THE GREATEST
ARCHAEOLOGIST OF THE 20th
CENTURY.
FOUND ASTOUNDING INSCRIPTIONS
UNDER THE VATICAN AND THEN SHE
FOUND PETER.
LOU: AS YOU NOTE, MARGARITA GAR
DUE CHI WAS ALSO EXTRAORDINARY
IN THE DISCOVERS THAT SHE HAD
MADE AS AN ARCHAEOLOGIST AND A
VERY IMPRESSIVE WOMAN WHO TOOK
ON THIS TASK, REPLACING TWO, TWO
FOLKS THAT THE POPE HAD ASSIGNED
WHO WERE FROM THE VATICAN AND
NOT PARTICULARLY ASTUTE, IF I
CAN PUT IT THAT WAY,
ARCHAEOLOGISTS AS THEY SERGED
FOR
SER
SEARCHEDFOR BROOF
SEARCHEDFOR PROOF THAT ST. PETER
SEARCHEDFOR PROOF THAT ST. PETE,
SEARCHEDFOR PROOF THAT ST. PETEH
SEARCHEDFOR PROOF THAT ST. PETES
REMAINS, WERE BENEATH THE
VATICAN.
>> SHE WAS -- IN 1990 SHE
DEBATED BASICALLY HER OPPONENTS
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MILAN.
SHE WAS ALMOST BLIND.
SHE WAS LED UP ON THE STAGE.
AT THE END OF THE SPEECH THE
MODERATOR WHOB WAS THE HEAD OF
SOUTHER BEY EUROPE SAID AIM NOT
A CHRISTIAN, I DON'T BELIEVE IN
CHRISTIANITY.
IT SEEMS TO
SH SEEMS TO
SHESEEMS TO
SHE FEMS TO
SHE FOUS TO
SHE FOUNDTO
SHE FOUND PETER.
SHE DID.
THAT HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY
POPE FRANCIS.
THE STORY IS AMAZING.
THE INSCRIPTIONS ARE AMAZING AND
ASTOUNDING.
SHE HAD TRAVELED ALL OVER THE
ROMAN WORLD IN ORDER TO FULLY
DECODE THE EARLY INSCRIPTIONS.
THE CHRISTIANS HAD TO WRITE IN
CODE BECAUSE THEY WERE BEING
KILLED.
NOT SO MUCH AS WHAT WE SAW FROM
ISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
LOU: AND THE PERSECUTION AS YOU
NOTE IN YOUR BOOK CONTINUES.
AND YOU'RE CONTRIBUTING ALL OF
YOUR PROCEEDS FROM YOUR BOOK
"THE FISHERMAN'S TOMB" TO THE
CAUSE OF THOSE CHRISTIANS WHO
ARE BEING PERSECUTED.
AND I JUST WANT TO, IF I MAY
VERY QUICKLY, COMMEND YOU AGAIN
AND RECOMMEND THE BOOK TO OUR
AUDIENCE.
IT IS A TERRIFIC, TERRIFIC READ.
A FASCINATING STORY.
AND I HAVE TO SAY, JOHN, YOU'VE
OUTDONE YOURSELF WITH THIS ONE.
THIS IS, I THINK, SPECTACULAR.
AND I THINK EVERYONE WHO IS
RELIGIOUS, WHO IS FASCINATED BY
WELL-TOLD STORIES WILL BE
REACHING FOR YOUR BOOK.
AGAIN, OUR SUNDAY VISITOR, IF WE
CAN PUT THAT UP AS I LOOK OVER
THERE, THERE IT IS.
AND AGAIN AS WE'RE RUNNING OUT
OF TIME, I GIVE YOU THE LAST
QUICK WORD.
>> WELL, IT'S AN AMAZING STORY.
IT'S IN A TIME OF SUCH
VULGARITY, IT'S FUN TO TOUCH THE
ETERNAL A LITTLE BIT.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE
INSCRIPTIONS INSCRIBED DOWN
THERE IN THE FIRST AND SECOND
CENTURY, THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE
DOING.
YOU'RE TOUCHING THE ETERNAL AND