>> c-span washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up this morning chief economist and co-founder of moody'seconomy.com mark zandi discusses the debt ceiling and the possible imfact on wall street. kelli whitener talks about the future of the children's health insurance program andean murray with the competitive enterprise institute reveals the recent report on shrinking the executive branch. watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. >> today on c-span 2 a review of the accountability office list of agencies and program that list fraud, waste abuse and mismanagement. live coverage at 8:30 a.m. eastern.

>> this week on c-span, tonight at 8:00, former presidents george w. bush and bill clinton on leadership. >> i always thought i would have a better life and have somebody else have a better life, too. and i liked it. i got lucky and don't care what anybody says, all these people that tell you they're born in a log cabin are full of bull. >> thursday at 8:00 p.m. with the budget for congress to handle we look at the budget and friday a profile interview with agriculture secretary sonny perdue. >> my political history is i tell people when i was born in 1976 in perry, georgia, they stamp democrat on your birth certificate and i made a political decision i call truth in advertising in 1998 to change parties and became a republican at that point in time. >> followed at 8:30 p.m. by a conversation with black hat and defcon founder.

>> no jobs and security for us and only people doing security were people in the military or maybe banks. this is really a hobby. as the internet grew and there were jobs and people were putting things online and money at risk, all of a sudden hackers started getting jobs doing security. >> watch on c-span and c-span.org and listen using the free c-span radio app. r book tv visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they're reading this summer. >> one of the books i just got done reading, and i'm normally into all kind of history books, books that are faith-based. one of the books i read a friend of mine wrote is called from the valley of despair to the mountaintop of praise. a study of the book of the bible called habaka but the interesting thing about this author, and i knew his son very

well, his son was my pastor years ago but his son was a c-130 pilot and crashed and the whole crew died and this is about how this particular pastor has lived and dealt with the trials of life, including losing a son. really a good book and in depth study of that particular book of the bible but most times, most times and probably throughout the summer, i'm a real big history but. so -- history buff. there's a book called "sacred fire" which is a about a lot of the history of the founding fathers and will take a long time because it's a pretty thick book. most times that's my reading, if i'm not reading bills, that's what i'm reading. >> book tv wants to know what you're reading. end us your summer reading list via twitter@booktv or instagram

or post-it to our facebook page. book tv on c-span 2, television for serious readers. sunday night on q&a, the lives of winston churchill and george other well. churchill and other well, the fight for freedom. >> churchill and orwell never met but the hero of 1984 is winston. churchill read it twice and loved it. interesting i had, orwell, a socialist, a real leftist all his life admired churchill across the political chasm and wrote he's the only conservative he admired. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." tuesday night president trump was in phoenix, arizona, for a rally and accompanied by