asserted those powers because after all congress was not here. there the president is charged with drawing ever meant. there is no congress. the cabinet in those days were very, very smart. you had five men, two of them are really not a cabinet members the general and the attorney general. the attorney general was not the chief law-enforcement officer. he was simply a legal adviser to the president. he had no law enforcement powers pardon? >> a follow-up. usurping the power of congress by violating the level of -- letter of along? >> you know, this makes for in this discussion. should president obama have allowed congress to shut down the government's?

i don't think so. i think he should have declared a state of emergency instead of letting millions of americans suffer. to me you was as cruel to the american people as governor christie was in new jersey by -- you are very welcome. thank you very much. i'll be glad to sign books for you. [applause] >> is there a nonfiction of for bookie would like to see beecher send us an e-mail. >> down to the crossroads. and the civil rights market, the beating in june. and you could make an argument that the civil rights movement in many ways transforms.

the call for black power. sophie carmichael midway through the margin demille generates controversy coming immediately generates a great swelling of enthusiasm. and then a lot of ways it ignites the direction. those changes might have happened over the course of time anyway, but what they did was indemnify this mission. brought together civil-rights leaders and put them into this sort of laboratory of policy moving to the mississippi creating all these dramatic moments that highlighted a key division, some of the things that were strengths that long animated the civil rights movement. >> tonight at 9:00 on afterwards and march 2nd more about black power and the civil rights

movement. calls, comments, e-mails, tweets live from noon to 2:00 p.m. eastern in-depth on book tv. and you still have time to comment on february's in-depth. we'd of women's history for beginners and go to into the chat room. >> looking for ways to get martin luther king, a radical at the time. and they wanted to discredit him in front of his followers. one way of doing that was by finding out what kind of sexual activity he might have and then using that to blackmail, extra large, are basically just discredit him in front of his followers. and that is what this document was. it basically said the same thing

. it was dated back in october of 2012. what it argued was -- and the director of the nsa, and general alexander, and is said they look for personal vulnerabilities that de un sexually an explicit material and so forth. ..

shouldn't publicize it but when i saw the names of their wasn't any division because u.s. persons is what they call it, so there wasn't any division. we are only going after the foreigners coming u.s. persons and foreigners. up next on booktv after words mac with guest host senior fellow and author of searching . the latest book down to the crossroads civil rights, black power and the march against fear. and it's the university of memphis professor tells the story of james meredith, the first african-american admitted