I'm dumbfounded that this government
won't release the report about Russian
influence because every person who votes
in this country deserves to see that
report before your election happens why
do you think they're not releasing it I
don't know the answer to that I would
think of a reporter like you and others
should be absolutely relentless in
trying to get to the bottom of it
because look we know from even this
current Trump administration's
intelligence officials that the Russians
are still in our electoral system
there's no doubt of the role that Russia
played in our 2016 election and is
continuing to play there's a lot of
evidence that Russia played in the
brexit election now I'm not you know in
your country I don't have a and say
about any of that but the fact that the
current government won't release this
report by your own government should
raise some questions this is your first
book together yes yes whose idea was it
to work together and I just feel this
deep kind of almost compulsion to
continue to try to write women back into
history we decided this was something
that we wanted to tackle together
although this photograph had been I
think fairly well known at least in the
United States of these kind of women
firefighters at Pearl Harbor
it wasn't until Dorothea Buckingham
librarian in Hawaii he was obsessed with
this photograph just went into the
archives determined to name these women
you being gutsy is courageous having the
resilience to kind of see that courage
through to live your purpose but also to
bring others along with you
when would you say you haven't been
gutsy I think about you know the
presidential campaign of 2016 I thought
I was as gutsy as I could be but I
probably could have been guts here you
know when we talked about how the
Russians were behind the theft of
material you know a lot of people say
what are they talking about you know
they just dismissed us in both the
public and the press so could I have
been nuts here and pushing that point
and trying to alert people to what is
going on
in fact here in your country I think
it's outrageous that your government
won't release a report about Russian
influence inside the UK so we all need
to be a little guts here and trying to
get to the truth about what is happening
it would be very gutsy to have another
go at it it would be very gutsy that's
true look right now we've got a campaign
going we've got people already running
and we have to figure out how we make
the case and that's what I'm really
focused on will you be endorsing one of
them I don't think so I think I will you
know support them and answer their
questions in any way that I can but once
we have a nominee to do everything I
know to do to win so it sounds as if you
don't feel like there is someone at the
moment who is you know outright the
person you'd want to see become
president it's a process and the process
is unfolding