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[inaudible conversations] >> will be back to the food policy conference live at 1:30 eastern this afternoon. the director for the center for food safety season may not talk about food policy activities in the federal agency. should've followed by a panel discussion on hunger in america that will include the heads of meals on wheels, bread for the world, action center and others could once again come alive at 1:30 eastern here on c-span2. tonight, but tv is in primetime. a look at space exploration. we begin with author dave sobel and the book last universe. the ladies at the harvard observatory to the measure of

the stars and from the tucson festival of books, natalia hold discusses her book rise of the rocker growth from a from the name to mars. shetterly recalls a group of african-american women to endure the bond, mary jackson, christine darden who were important in the devising of the aeronautic calculations that propelled the united states to believe in the space race. julian guthrie on her book, how to make a spaceship. >> white house correspondent education not mr.'s annual dinner. senior correspondent a notch. he was the entertainment from last year's congressional correspondent dinner in c-span has the video online.

>> ladies and gentlemen, we are sitting here at the e.u. that the 2016 presidential election where we the american people get to vote for who we hate the least. right now statistically it looks like hillary clinton should win. that's about right. that is about right. that's the right response to the clinton generally gets. hillary clinton is like the broccoli presidential choices. the clinton camp is that trust us, she's good for you. hillary clinton is like the toyota camry of presidential options. what if you're on the price is right and they presented you with a hillary, it gets the same response as the camry. zero no, i already had one in the 90s. >> president trump already

announced that he will not get sending, making him the first president in more than three decades to skip the annual gathering. it usually mingles washington d.c. usually mingles washington d.c. journalist with administration officials and celebrities. the sale of live coverage on other day, april 29th 9:30 p.m. eastern. >> los angeles times has just been on the festival looks for more than 20 years and it has become an institution that is part of the community. it is the way that we can celebrate with the readers of the paper and web the city as a whole the very notion of reading. today when the idea of there being something called fake news is out there, i think that books help us celebrate the way that words and facts are grounded in storytelling and in history.

>> i love bellringers. a lot of times i don't use them as actual bombers, that with what we are doing that day is more of a rap. >> the new website is something that is just fabulous. my students use it regularly and it reads in fact they are right now working on quipping videos and making questions that they can design and turning to their own bellringers are >> my favorite aspect is the deliberations page. this is a perfectly set up ready to go classroom deliberation and discussion on just a variety of topics that are current and relevant today.

>> mother jones washington bureau chief moderated the discussion on the party. joining him was conservative donald shall have been used political consultant john weaver with john kasich and john mccain's presidential campaign. the panelists took questions from brown university student. [inaudible conversations] >> welcome to brown. welcome to our conversation.