we are alive today from the savannah book festival. our coverage continues in just a few minutes. [inaudible conversations] author and white house correspondent april ryan will be our guest on in depth. live at noon eastern on sunday march 1. here is a portion of one of the recent book tv appearances. there is an old negro spiritual when i think of freedom. oh freedom. oh freedom. freedom over me and the floppy is slave i will be buried in my grave and if you all know the rest. and go home to my lord and be free. this is serious for me. this is so serious for me.

if i'm not allowed to ask questions. you will not get the information that you need. there can have a john and other people in the room. i think that for the words he said before he passed away. if you begin down that line you begin what dictatorship who are we in 2018. what are we. for a time such as this and these books that are out right now. it is not a coincidence about these books. talking about the dysfunction. they have gone into the stratosphere. he painted the picture that we already knew. but he is putting something to it.

even homero on marissa with her tapes god bless her. i wish her well. and then you have me we are all talking about the dysfunction. there is some kind of commonality here that is true. how are you call him an idiot. bob woodward bob woodward is part of the supporting team that uncovered what, watergate. uncovered what watergate. for many of you who were around at that time you remember what it smelt like. and what it tasted like and what it felt like. president nixon tried to do what, credit the report. in 2018 what is happening again there is a threat and there is a reason for that.

>> there is a reason for that. we are still trying to find out but there is a reason for that. i want to start off with chapter one of my book. the chapters called the rebuke. i think about how when donald trump decided to run people thought it was a joke. c-span is filming. be careful behave. and then even his own party the republican party the republican party said a second happen. i will never forget a cold night in washington dc. and listen to this. i want you guys to read it.

i did not read it --dash but mean it the way it came out. i will never forget a cold night in washington dc. i was invited to the republican national committee building. reince priebus was the have of the rnc. and there shauna spicer was a consultant. they can ask some of the cream of the crop black supporters to come because they were looking for the black vote and they were on the driveway. this is what were you in ado and this is how it's can happen. this is what working to do. and me and myself i'm always raising my hands i said wait a minute there is a candidate out there in this field of

25,000 that is talking to vision. it's not about coming together or a unifying to win. i will never forget how they were up against that wall like they were the king makers. they knew what was can happen. i said you have a candidate who is dividing the nation on race. how are you going to get him to conform to what you want. he is going to need our data they were left on the with egg on their face. against the party.

what we found from donald trump cold words, these private rallies. thrust against the press and i think about how he galvanized people how he bought people together. they are listening to something tonight but there is another side that doesn't get that. it's the same formula but a different manner. sometimes things just aren't rate. chapter one page 16. another tactic they used to tackle their court supporters.

they see the broadway musical wicked for the third time. we love broadway. more importantly to see actress shirley rall the headmistress of the school my friend made the theater history by being be the first black woman. one of the characters began to begin to reveal the plot of the play. the character said the best way to unify people is to create a common enemy mind you wicked it was published in 1995 and the play was a broadway musical in 2003. while before they decided to become a common enemy but he understood what to do. how do you bring people together. you find a common enemy. we saw that with birth reason we saw with a lot of other stuff.

we see it now with the press. the press is a threat where the enemy of the people we are asking questions that make sense we are asking questions that help america. >> on sunday march 1 join our live conversation with author and white house correspondent april ryan. she will talk about the books in career and answer any questions. here are as a is a look at some authors. our weekly author interview program that includes best-selling nonfiction books and guest interviewers. espn senior writer offered his sports.

nicholas kristof will discuss issues facing the working class in rural america. in this weekend on afterwards specific research institute offers their thoughts on healthcare reform. canada is one of three countries in the world. the other two are cuba and north korea. think about what kind of healthcare that you get in those countries. the nhs started in 1971. it covers about 90% of brits they allow private coverage to run parallel. they have private coverage and some of the countries that are in the uk our american companies. this is becoming more popular because just in december there were over 4 million brits on a waiting list to get treatment and the cancer treatment is not supposed to be delayed

more than 62 days. they have not met that standard for over five years in more important under the world health organization study. it's the bottom of the run in most industrialized countries. in all forms of cancer rates. that tells you something about life expectancy with cancer under a government controlled system. afterwards airs on saturdays at 10:00 p.m. on book tv on c-span two. all previous afterwards are available as podcasts into watch online. >> our live coverage of the savanna book festival continues now with the space flight historian. there is a competition to have the first woman in space.

[inaudible conversations] >> good morning everyone. i am delighted to welcome you to the 13th annual savanna book festival presented by georgia power, and the