up next, 13 hours by mitchell sue cough which provides an account of the security team that responded to the attack on the u.s. embassy in benghazi. former navy seals talk about how their training and combat experiences can be applied to leadership in any organization in "extreme ownership." fox news political analyst, juan williams, has also made the conservative book club's list with "we the people," a collection of profiles of people he thinks have carried on the traditions of the founding fathers including president ronald reagan, supreme court justice thurgood marshall and martin luther king. brian kilmeade, a co-host of "fox & friends," is next with "george washington's secret six" which recalls a spy ring that operated during the american revolution. taya kyle shares her experiences as an army spouse and dealing with the aftermath of her

husband's death in "american wife." and wrapping up this week's list, chair of military theory at the marine corps university, intas man gorka, looks at radical us lammic terrorism and his assessment on how to fight it. that's a look at the current bestseller ors according to the conservative book club. many of these authors have appeared or will be appearing on booktv. you can watch them on our web site, booktv.org. >> crystal wright, your new book, "con job." who's being conned and who's doing the conning? >> guest: well, i think democrats are doing the conning particularly of black americans and women. i argue in my book because they're kind of like the democrat party, in my view, over the last half century is kind of like a used car salesman. it peddles all these promises and pledges to black americans, we're going to make things better since lbj, we're going to make you martyr, richer, more --

smarter, richer, more educated. fast forward, black americans are none of those things. i talk about in "con job" how the head of the congressional black caucus last year said that blacks were, in quote, a state of emergency under the first black president, mind you. so it's -- i look at the democrat party kind of like a used car salesman in that they say, hey, they're really slickly dressed, and they want to sell you a great product. they say don't look under the hood, because you might not actually get what you're voting for. and with women, you know, it's always the war on women, right? the abortion lobby is very strong in the democrat party, and they paint it under this veil of pro-choice, but when i did some digging on planned parenthood's web site and in their financial e reports, what i found is by the age a woman turns 45 in america, 3 out of every 10 women will have had an abortion. and i don't know if that -- and they boast about it on their web site as something we should champion.

and as a woman, i find that -- it's nothing i, you know, women that i know who have made the tough decision to have an abortion, i don't agree with abortion, that's not something that we should be proud of. but that's a statistic that they boast about. those are just some of the highlights of the book. when it comes to illegal immigration, you know, often times what i found in doing research for this week if you go on the dnc's web site, they have a list of 50 different constituents. you know what my mother always used to tell me? a person who tries to be master of many things or to many people usually are master of none of those things. a lot of times they'll advocate the democrat party for one constituent that cannibalizes another, and there's no better example than illegal immigration. illegal immigration is enemy number one of black americans. what happens when immigration increases by about 10%, illegal immigration? jobs decline for blacks to the tune of almost 6% and wages by about 2.5%.

you have hillary clinton and bernie sanders -- particularly hillary clinton -- saying she's going to go further than barack obama did and use executive order if she has to to allow the 11 million people to stay here permanently. that harms black americans. so my book really, i wrote this book -- and the timing is perfect, 2016. my book came out a little over a month ago, to wake everybody up to say, look, you don't have to be a conservative like me, but know what you're voting for. has the democrat party really delivered on promises to blacks, to women and really liberals, you know, in general is what the book is about. so that's probably more than you wanted to hear, peter, but -- [laughter] >> host: 96% of african-americans voted for barack obama. over time 90% of african-americans vote for the democratic candidate. >> guest: yes. and i think that is a tragedy because the lock, stock and barrel vote that blacks have given democrats over the last

half century has not gotten us, i don't think, the parity with white americans that martin luther king wanted for us to have. and i think in many ways it has kept us -- i hate to use analogies about slavery in all those, but i feel like it has kept us impoverished as a race. and when you look at little -- in 1964 daniel patrick moynihan, i i talk about this in the book, he said that he was disturbed by the fact that 23% of black babies were born out of wedlock, and he warned president johnson in his moynihan report -- which is called the negro family: a case for national action -- he told president johnson if we don't do something about this, you're going to see generational poverty and crime developing within the black race because at the same time that moynihan found the broken family emerging among black americans, he also saw an increased dependence of black women in single-family homes, you know x they were the

head of the homes, a dependency on welfare. forward to today. 72 of black babe is -- 72% of black babies are born out of wedlock, and you can go to brookings institute or heritage, and all the data is the same on the left or the right. a child that is born into a single-parent household has about a 70% chance of growing up in poverty and not getting an education. so i really want black americans to think this is an important election. who is really talking to you about what policies they're actually going to implement to get you jobs? not making promises like hillary clinton and bernie sanders on records. you know, both of them have been in office a long time. they're promising all these things, you know, we're going to stop mass incarceration of blacks, we're going to bring black jobs, we're going to reform the prison system, all these things, but they haven't done any of that stuff over the last, you know, 30 years that hillary's been running for president really, she's had every job under the sun.

they're pandering, what i say is that they're saying that black lives matter, but for them it's really all about black votes. because what have either of them done in their records to help improve the state of black america? that's what i -- and i think you have donald trump on the other side. while he is making some statements that i think he needs to clarify about white supremacists, the klan and david duke, at the same time, he is actually uttering words "black americans." he talks about how he's going to ease black unemployment in his immigration plan by getting rid of j-1 visas which allow foreign, young workers to come over here. and you know what he wants to replace it with? all on his web site. i wish he'd talk about it more, he wants to replace it with an inner city jobs bank where businesses, corporations, you name it, actually have -- are going to be forced to go to a jobs bank. i think it's innovative, it's

more jack kemp style, right? enterprise zones. and i want to hear donald trump talk about that and really repudiate white supremacist -- which he kind of did today on today show. he actually said for the first time he does not want their vote, so i was glad to hear that. you can't talk out of both sides of your mouth. >> host: crystal wright, we hear from our call-in programs on c-span and booktv black conservative, i just don't get it. >> guest: yeah. they don't get it, they don't trust me, they think i -- i get called uncle tom, coon, you know, like, you're working for the man. well, i don't get paid for virtually none of my activism is paid. i mean, i got paid to write this book, but it's a modest, you know, sum of money. and i think the reason why though is because we do see, i would say, my party use a lot of black conservatives to their advantage, and they use them as puppets. i think at a certain point there were times when ben carson when

he was appearing on a certain conservative network before he ran for president was saying things that weren't authentic to dr. carson. i heard when he poke at the president's -- spoke at the president's prayer breakfast. i think black americans have a right to distrust some black conservatives because the ones that you see sometimes propped up through conservative media outlets somehow lose their identity, and they are not -- they're no longer authentic in their voice. i would say to black americans, however, there are many conservatives like me who i tell it like it is, i'm able to be introspective about my own party when my party says stupid things like donald trump has said stupid things, like haley barbour who said he didn't remember the civil rights movement being all that bad and session regated -- when he grew up in the segregated south in mississippi. so i tell it like it is, but i also -- look, i don't paint all liberals alike, i know, it

sounds like it since my book, "con job," is a critique on the democratic party, but i think for black americans what i would say is we -- do the homework. there's a rich history with the party of lincoln, and i emphasize the party of lincoln, because that was a good party then. with black americans, lincoln and his republican party was created because they fundamentally wanted to break away from the whigs who wanted to expand slave states out west. lincoln wants parity like martin luther king for black americans. the republican party fought for the 13th, 14th, 15th amendment. so there's a history there. there's a reason why black americans like me believe fundamentally the policy conservatives offer empower them more than democrats. so i would just, you know, i think some of that is going away because you do see after president barack obama's nearly two terms, black americans are really frustrated. travels smiley -- tavis smiley and others are saying, gosh, i don't know if he's delivered on the the promise that he made,

and did we deserve to give him over 90% of our vote. so this is a good thing. i just think everybody should have their eyes wide open. i'm a republican, but that doesn't mean just because you have an r next to your name you're always going to earn my vote. i'm just saying that black america in order to have any political power in this country, we have got to diversify our political thought process. we've got to do it. no other race -- and i'm going to repeat this -- no other race gives nearly their entire vote to one party but black americans. and then we complain when democrats don't deliver on promises. so i just think that's got to stop. that's the only way you're going to have real political power, and you're going to lift yourselves out of poverty. you've got to stop asking what a party can do for you and what you can do for yourself. then the party can kind of help you along, i think. >> host: is the republican party comfortable with you? >> guest: no. i don't -- i think the republican party has a great uneasiness with me because they can't put me into a box. i'm not, i'm not going to use

names about my peers that i like, but i'm not necessarily predictable. and i, frankly, don't think that any party should have patsies that are its supporters. and that's what we're dealing with right now fundamentally. the party wants to be controlled by the gop establishment which is, frankly, a bunch -- it's an exclusive club. i've taken great offense to them trying to rig an election that donald trump is winning, i mean, not election, a nomination process that donald trump is winning fairly and squarely. and what this really is about is the establishment in washington very concerned and disturbed they have lost political power, influence and money. and it's made up largely of white males, and the very people like mitt romney today who gave a speech -- and i couldn't hear it all -- he gave a speech condemning donald trump who, by the way, in 2012 he praised for supporting his campaign, i find it really repugnant because

romney ran one of the most whitest campaigns that i can remember. i wanted to help his campaign, volunteer. i was shut out at every turn. i was a gingrich delegate. i went on national television when my guy was not winning anything beyond south carolina, and i got behind our nominee, mitt romney. mitt romney did nothing to grow the party. the party stayed very white under mitt romney. and what happened? mitt romney lost the black, asian, hispanic and woman vote. mitt romney is a failure, the establishment has been a failure to grow this party. donald trump is doing these things, and that's why they're mad. their power -- my party deserves to be burped down and built -- burned down and built anew. >> host: in "con job" two people who appear in your book, allen west and cornell west. what's the difference between cornel west and allen west? >> guest: well, allen west actually endorsed my book. he was a member of congress in florida.

he's a great friend of mine, i've learned a lot from allen west, you know, just was very friendly with him when he was a congressman, and cornel west is a professor at princeton. i think cornel west has come out to support bernie sanders. cornel west, i mention, i think, throughout the book because cornel west, in my opinion, is part of the race hustle movement. and i put him in -- i lump him in a category with al sharpton because cornel west is always trotted out by the mainstream media when we need, quote, black spokespeople. and, you know, when i was growing up, my parents never gave me a memo that i had to have black people speak on my behalf, because my parents grew up during the segregated south, and they were called the n-word, my parents had to sit in the back of the bus in richmond, virginia. so they always taught me to peek for myself as a -- to speak for myself as a black woman. so i take great offense between, you know, when the media wants to reduce black people to voices

in a collective box that have to be relegated to spokespeople. peter, you don't have a white spokesperson that speaks on your behalf, do you? maybe you do and i don't know about it, but i think i missed that memo. so when you look at cornel west, he's making a lot of money writing books about what black people should think and do and how he's the voice of black people. he teaches this stuff at princeton. allen west, on the other hand, is telling people speak for yourself. he was a loud mouth, in a good way, congressman. he tells it like this it is, ane is much more of a hero and a champion to me for the cause of black america than cornel west will ever be. [laughter] so there. >> host: a little bit from crystal wright. her new book, "con job: how democrats gave us crime, sanctuary cities, abortion, profiteering and racial division." you're watching booktv on c-span2. ♪ >> when i tune into it on the weekends, usuall a