at 2:00 p.m. eastern, president trump addressing the 99th national convention of the american legion. several thousand veterans attending in reno, nevada. that is live on c-span. on q&a, the lives of winston church a and george orwell. we talk with thomas reed x about his book "churchill and orwell: the fight for freedom." >> they never met, but the hero is named winston. churchill loved it. interestingly, orwell, though a socialist, a real leftist all his life, and murder churchill across the little chasm and wrote really that he was the only conservative he admired. q&a.nday night on c-span's recently visited capitol hill to ask members of

congress what they are reading this summer. >> i'm a big history buff. right now i'm reading "franklin and winston: a portrait of a about the" that talks friendship that the former president and the prime minister had particularly during world war ii. how it evolved and how close it was and how they talked together to bring together the victory that was necessary for the country that we live in today. it reminds me of the need of the continued close relationship that we have with the united kingdom and with our european allies. i am reading that and hope to finish that shortly thereafter. then i went to one of the congressional series on presidents. they had -- there's a book they

distributed i very interested in reading next dealing with thomas jefferson and sally hemmings. it talks about that relationship and what it was. i wanted to read the intricacies of what the relationship was and how they move forward. thomas jefferson was one of our founding fathers. as an african-american, his beliefs in either freeing sally or his relationship with slaves of the time. so that is a book of particular interest to me. if i have the time, i would like booky to read a third called "in the black: history of african-americans on wall street " which i sit on the financial services committee and i am from new york. so it is important, i think him and you think about the investments and what is taking the becomell street tremendously important. there had been some kind years,

many of which no one talks about and no one knows. i wanted to make sure i became familiar with who they are, what sacrifices they made. so i am looking to do this book from gregory s. bell. i think that will do me for the month of august. finish one, get into two, and then back to washington, d.c. >> thank you so much for your time. again, he started talking about how you analyzed different text on history and different analysis on history to assess how we can move forward with our allies today. how does looking at those books i like to do that? >> it reminds been a lot of things we're dealing with today, it is not the first time we have had those issues in this country. and what it meant, people, even though they come from different parties and the greatness of the

country because we have the ability to compromise and figure it out. even though it looked gloomy at times, you can look -- i'm reading the book about churchill and fdr. sometimes it looked real gloomy. people honored if we should or should not enter into the war. we became a greater nation. until folks when things look gloomy and sometimes you feel sad and things are not as good as they should be, we have been there as a country. we have been able to overcome it. books remind you we will overcome any difficulty we are having now because of the great institutions and the system of which we live in. the greatest democracy, not perfect as churchill would say, but the best one that we know that exist on this planet. that is what these books remind me of. >> what are you reading? send us your summer reading list via twitter