>> it starts at 9:30 a.m. here on c-span 3. or listen with the free c-span radio app. in the afternoon the national governors' association summer meeting in providence, rhode island. governors will discuss the opioid epidemic and prevention and treatment efforts. live coverage starts at 4:00 p.m. eastern. judge i see this as a bipartisan process, the table that was set for trump. and it isn't just about politics, it's about media, it's about news coverage. the table was set for him in so many ways.

that all he needed to do was just show up. because it was sort of, we were already treating elections like reality tv shows. we already had a media landscape, that was much more interested in interpersonal dramas between candidates than in in-depth coverage of the issues. we already had democrat, democrats using the tools of corporate branding. themselves. president obama was a fantastic brand, he used incredibly cutting-edge marketing techniques and a lot of us felt that there was, behind the claims that he was leading this deep change in transformation that there wasn't enough change. that also helped set the table for trump.

>> he basically puts his army out on the virginia peninsula in the spring of '62. is going to turn out to be perhaps the worst possible place to launch his campaign. sunday at 6:30 p.m. on the 325th anniversary of the salem witch trials, historian margo burns talks about the primary sources in the trials compiled in the book, record of the salem witch hunt. >> that's why we know so much about salem village. why we know so much of the pleas of innocents, because samuel parish took it all down and there's a reason that arthur

miller poached from him is because it reads like a play, she says this, he says that. there's sound over here, we couldn't hear, the girls were flailing around. all those descriptions come from samuel parris, he was reconstituted it from shorthand. on the presidency, former "boston globe" journalists on their book "the road to camel camelot." >> i was a junior in college in 1960 and it was the first time i ever heard the word "charisma." it was because he had charisma. richard nixon didn't have charisma. lbj didn't have charisma. >> but jack kennedy had charisma. i think that could have possibly tipped the balance in some people's minds. ? for our complete american history tv schedule, go to c-span.org.

this weekend on book tv on c-span 2, saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern, former chess champion garry kasparov on his book "deep thinking." >> machines for centuries, if not for millennium yums, have b taking over all forms of manual labor. when machines were taking over jobs from manufacturing jobs, that's natural. now the only difference is machines coming after people with college degrees, political influence, and twitter accounts. and suddenly it's a big story. >> and at 9:15 p.m. jason riley discusses his book "false black power." and his arguments that blacks are disadvantaged economically by kplil capital. >> most groups in america and elsewhere who have risen economically have done so with

little or no political influence. and groups that have enjoyed early political success have tended to rise more slowly. so it's not that you can't take the political route. you can. but chances are you're going to rise more slowly than you would taking other routes. >> for more of this weekend's schedule, go to booktv.org. >> uk first secretary of state damian green took questions at the house of commons where british prime minister theresa may who was meeting with the king of spain. mr. green was asked about the status of brexit negotiations sand further trade deals with the european union. >> for the questions to the prime minister, caroline flint. >> question number one, mr. speaker. >> mr. damian ee