passage where he compared the approach to a television commercial from commercial a prego or someone is heating up store-bought pasta sauce and the husband who says to his wife, you are using the store-bought sauce, you're not doing it homemade? what about the oregano? what about the pepper? it's in there. and my dad would say we have that kind of constitution now. anything that was good and true and beautiful. click sunday night at 9 p.m. eastern on c-span's book tv.

like serving in the trump administration this is 40 minutes. >> nearly a year into your job here in the white house, what has been the biggest learning curve for you? >> the biggest learning curve has been transitioning from the private sector to the public service pre-it i always admire those who enter into public service but never envision myself going that route. to recognize you now have the ofponsibility and gravity to theing and speaking president is a responsibility i take very seriously. also just to recognize the different rules and regulations that apply to government service at this level. administration are part of the president's commitment in transparency and

accountability, gone further than other administrations in terms of committing ourselves to ethics and other regulatory measures. i think it takes a constant visual. through theselk gates, president trump is our 45th president, what were you thinking? what an incredible blessing it is to be a part of that. it's a blessing raised by someone who's a single mom. people todoes inspire work hard and be lucky along the way.

people are constantly saying that's a campaign promise or something in a campaign trail. you feel like you have to do some big things like reduce taxes on the middle class. keep the country more safe and prosperous. those are moral imperatives. you feel the waiting as of the -- the waiting us -ness of thety0 enormous task. you want to keep up to trump speed. >> what is trump speed? pathetic -- to be

parenthetically -- he wants many different ideas and inputs and individuals and on as to be brought to him constant basis. he is someone that the country sees firm sells -- for themselves, requires little sleep. is accustomed to doing things in ways there is constant motion. i'm not sure i am -- i'm pretty sure washington is not accustomed to that. that will turn very slowly. inertia is the most powerful physical force, unless it is met by friction. he is that friction. he is that force that wants us all to move forward more expeditiously and accomplishment the things. a number of different executive actions being taken.

those were measures that president trump could implement immediately, not having to wait for the legislative process. when he had the opportunity to do that of being eliminated or rolled back because they were unfair to taxpayers or property owners or small business owners and then coal miners, then he did that immediately. he try to renegotiate major trade deals. of tpc forg us out example. he is getting access to the pipelines. for the type of president he would like to have been in the first year and he has been. you see the way the consumer

confidence numbers and employment numbers, the small business formation numbers, the national assistant manufacturing numbers. all leading indicators the president has brought to our job creators, job speakers and job holders just in the first year. it often doesn't get covered fully are fairly, but people travel weekly for this -- iistration and i'm not have no idea if they vote or how they vote and i don't much care. they will come up and say just tell him to keep doing what he's doing, keep on pushing forward, keep those promises. even the people who didn't vote at all last election will say they are rooting for their country because that is the way they are raised. >> he is very critical of his

critics, both democrat and republican. is that the new norm? >> he has had relationships with each of them on different issues. i know other administrations will disagree. especially to members of the media. you would be hard-pressed to quantitatively find a public figure in as many years. office of thehe presidency is described by some people. it's really regrettable who was raised to respect the office of the presidency and its current occupant in a matter who it is and whether or not you supported that person are not in the ballot box. that person is the leader of the free world, the commander-in-chief of our armed forces. those brave and -- brave men and

women making sacrifices every day. i believe we all all owe the men and women in a uniform a grit -- a debt of gratitude that is not easy to pay. that, think about all of it seems like this constant tug-of-war. there are many responsible journalists out there. >> who is getting it right? >> there are a few people whose work stands out and i will tell you what the secret sauces. they have taken the time and patience and care to try to get to know this president and his decision-making process and why he handpicked the cabinet he has. i think they demonstrated their leadership skills on their own.

stories.uccess they get fair and full coverage. making an impact in people's everyday lives, certainly the v.a. the position of their benefits they previously had not gotten when the president announced a few months ago -- they had the accountability act. the choice act allows their veterans to access quality and timely care in the private sector. if they cannot achieve that through the v.a.. if we don't take care of our veterans -- he made the issue bigger. us a call to action saying who are we as a nation.

on the way to full on defeat. i could go on and on. small business administration predicted that want to single because that's the mark of leadership, somebody who pulls together very respectable men and women who had previous careers in public and do ite service effectively. i think it is easy to accentuate the negative. we are at a time where it is easy to complain and really cheap and easy to be a naysayer and a critic. i choose, because i don't know , choose to survive be a little bit more sunshine and a light, think about things more positively, and take the full measure of everyone.

one error from one person to one transgression to one , you areone article not looking at the full measure of the issues. washington -- that is a recognition fact that not everyone ends up appreciating. you have to subvert your ego to the greater good. hereot about to -- i'm not to read about myself, i'm not here to think about -- i'm here to think about something that is so much bigger than me. there are only two people who work here, who were elected to do anything. and their names are donald j. trump and michael r. pence. inting with the program donald trump's administration

doesn't mean blindly -- doesn't mean being blindly loyal and never disagreeing. it's the opposite. donald trump is a great boss to great boss for many reasons, especially to women. he expects disagreement and dissension and diversity of viewpoints and backgrounds and on nearly every issue. and i appreciate that. i have learned as campaign counselor to the president, if you can't feel ore to disagree respectfully given alternate point of view to something, but you really shouldn't be here. you you should get out of that job because i feel great to work in this place at this time in this great nation's history, for forn, for he that --

president and vice president who appreciates the values of other people. people talk to them or they are getting it from their senior advisers from the cabinet officials. i appreciate that the mark of a true leader is somebody who surrounds himself, aren't always saying yes, but who respects them enough as the two people who are elected to do anything. right?is getting it audio get a sense of what happening in this town? regrettable that some of this country is curating the information and it seems to me much of our programming is geared this way. much of our program has become curated to appease the audience.

headlines and seeing -- it is mostly just flat. if you go to the source -- some of the close to the white house and across the street. i don't know. the less people are reliant. there are information overload. on the primary issues of the day.

it's easier. it's a cheap easy way to cover the story. they want to tell you who's up and who's down. trulyomething the people care about and affect their lives every single day. issueseople stand on the has an awful lot to do with where they are sitting. beliefs -- i feel the 2016 to let -- 2016 election was a major turning point and embarrassing episode for many in the mainstream media. none of them lost their jobs. there was this unspoken cover for each other that if everybody was wrong, that nobody lost their job and they skated through, so we will keep covering this man and this candidate. there are a few outlets and great white house reporters come in print.larly

a take the time to ask the questions and don't fall into the culture of sameness. there is a real shame in being the same. same headlinethe and everybody is believing every , with the same people and pundits. it can't possibly be breaking news if you set it for five itaight days -- if you said for five straight days. you're missing out on some a great stories that could be told. i think the foremost , i'mnsibility of the media a big believer in the first amendment -- but with that rule comes a great responsibility, with the freedom of the press comes a responsibility to get it right and get the full story. i think the first responsibility is to connect america with information.

yes it is critical and tough and skeptical, but not always alwaysal -- but not negative. you're really missing the opportunity to tell america how it happened and how it affects them. title, counselor to the president, what are your duties and responsibilities? >> i remember when i told the president-elect i had decided to come in to the administration because i had not make that decision -- not made that decision. continue to be for crappy ages for this job. 13, 13, 9, and eight. my proudest of coverage is to be there for them as a mother and a campaign manager. to my children, i

was staring at a gold mine of life-changing money, millions and millions of dollars at my feet. that was very attractive to me. the other reason was i didn't felt that reason was i really felt my greatest asset as an outside advisor to counsel him from the outside and make sure sounde this surround system, this political operation, this policy operation where we would have constant ads and grassroots support. energy, development and security matters. i feel like we need to continue that for the president.

i said no to press secretary, note comes structure. and i love policies. tosaid, what would you like work on? i said i would like to give support to your major initiatives, repealing and replacing obamacare. anything to do with pro-life, which is a big issue for me. the pro-choice has been very effective. to lend support to these initiatives and to have my , theolio specific areas scourge of our nation and time. up from 52000 and the year before -- 52,000 the year before. not -- ii decide to be

see as nonpartisan issues -- areas i see as nonpartisan issues -- why not come on board and try to break the back of the opioid crisis? tell the people in your state you are joining together with the president and his chief to bring attorneys in our state so our families no longer suffer. afraid,americans are they feel ashamed to come forward and say, i have a problem, or my friend and my child has a problem. and we are losing people unnecessarily to drug addiction, to misuse, to opioids, which tricks the mind. that little bottle of pills bears a label that has the family doctor and local pharmacy on the label. it tricks you into thinking it was meant to help someone somehow someway.

if you take just a little piece of it it won't be harmful to you, which is not the case. military employment. that our veterans have opportunities and employment opportunities and sales opportunities when they come back from being overseas or when they are no longer active military. we are trying to expand that reached our active military spouses. many of them are acting like single moms. the responsibility of being single moms being deployed. they need to be reassigned, to have reassignment and have every two or three years in some cases. its licensing and credentialing that gets in our way.

assigned to aget camp for example. why do you have to wait all that time to get that license? we try to connect them with opportunities in that regard. is a family commitment. and that woman or that man is incredibly resilient. it's a great decision maker, someone who can really cope with things coming their way. to hook them up in the gig economy, we are working with

administrative and everybody to try those opportunities. thank you for allowing me to go a little bit further into a couple of those issues, because people should know what we are working on here. by the way, when you're asking, ask how you can help. we are doing this for this nation. this drug epidemic, attorney general sessions said it is the worst in our nations history. >> who's to blame? >> there's a whole spectrum to blame. and that's a whole spectrum of responsible actors that can help. there has been overprescribing by the medical community. .hey've done a really good job you have a major pharmaceutical company.

major chain drugstores. we are not going to give you 30 days. we've had republican governors working with deep democratic state legislators like places like new jersey and massachusetts. i think pain is the fifth indicator, we are having health care by emotion now. then we have to make sure you never feel pain. and a highly educated wealthy country, nobody should feel pain. why not take a couple of extra and not havet day any bottles of pills. there are millions of americans who suffer chronic pain.

talking about the dental procedure, the surgery we just had. talking about temporary pain relief. pain management need not mean pain management. and former democratic congressman patrick kennedy. out -- a tripk out to the v.a. in cleveland. and we have to blame also the border. the president made a speech about drug demand, he and the first lady taking on major drug policies together. i hope the country memorized every word. it isesident made clear

drug demand but also drug supply. in 90% of the heroine is coming from the southern border. we know we have a sentinel. we have a sentinel problem in this country. ran an articleun about how sentinel is a bigger homicide than in the city of baltimore. i talk to governors every week until they can't keep up with the sentinel explosion in their state. and it is being laced into the drugs -- fentanyl explosion in their state. and it is being laced into the drugs. they buy a pill for five dollars and they are dead the next day. it, yout know what's in don't know where it came from originally. more likely than not these days

sadly enough those pills are laced with fentanyl. that's coming in through china. and it is being manufactured to thisd brought in country through our mail, we needour airports, our brave men and women at the at rd agents to have the tools they need to be able to intercept a lot of the fentanyl and make sure it is not destroying our community. >> golden girls meets jersey. what was your upbringing right -- upbringing like? mom and married sisters raised me. her husband and my uncle through marriage gave me a

great example of a successful it means i dide very little for myself. i was taught to be patriotic. and we had pictures of the last supper and the pope. it wasn't until i was assigned by my local high school in the , ieberry castle of the world was assigned to cover two presidential conventions. i was going into my senior year in high school and president reagan ended up visiting my hometown and i ended up meeting him. i covered to look -- covered two conventions for the local paper.

congresswoman ferraro, also amazing, a woman as vice president. i was 17, hugh 68. he came from a different coast, different gender. he spoke in a way that was optimistic. he spoke about dark issues like the soviet union and the growing threat around communism. and i gave fair coverage to those conventions. i was pretty much hoped then on politics.

to have a relationship with those grandmothers, to me it's a gift that keeps on giving. there is just something to that wisdom. and the ability to pass on the family legacy. and humility from that greatest generation and they looked at their country as immigrants. america isstates of a place where women have rights and girls can do anything they want. i appreciate the fact i was able to lead best to leave that modest household to pursue my dreams.

and rise to be campaign manager, entrepreneur. counselor to the president. everyone all the time. and they kept open the job of first female president. i would say to your own daughter not everybody, will pursue, most people were pursue a career in politics. most people don't much like politics. and one presumes -- we live in a great country where we are pro- -- where we have rights, it's a wonderful time to be a young woman, to be a young girl. i'm glad to see people are game.ng in later in the

i try to raise awareness on this issue. a good, that's great. >> y mary tyler moore is a role mother>> i meant that my looked at that john wright of 1970's and shehe had received an issue of the magazine for a friend. there was a genre one day, raising the two daughters on her own and merely -- and mary tyler moore. i think it showed women something other than a wife and

mother in the household. up liking carol burnett and lucille ball. you couldn't tivo it and didn't have it on demand. my role models are the women who raised me. i think in part because they are not household names. and --great and rich in great and of the women in my life, their legacies are the families they raised and look what they brought to the family. i'm very sorry we live in a time where my children had to grit up -- had to grow up very quickly. lesson.een a good

just because somebody says something does not make it true. less miserable people apparently in the world that feel better attacking a total stranger. thatt teaches my children they are catholicism means they have to pray for those who must be in a dark place that they feel such hatred. being imperfect and trying to do it well for the country she loves so much. >> does the president there any responsibility for this political discourse? >> we are all a part of it. you'd have to ask the question more specifically to give a fair answer. shocked.

what is said about this president for ad revenues, for people who no longer have access , for them to try to navigate their own way and power structure in their own way through the donald trump presidency, instead of trying to take the time to learn how to write a thoughtful, intelligent article, or give 80 well reasoned appearance on tv. it's just easier to bring things going viral, to attack, attack, attack. most of the president's twitter feed is about policy. he posts are things from his foreign trips, policy descriptions, or trips he takes

-- pennsylvania, talking about health care reform, manufacturing. that's not scintillating enough. light, not heat, so doesn't get much coverage. unfortunately we are somebody -- we are a culture who looks the other way. we're just a culture that looks the other way. here? why was he on the lucy echo and then why does he get to walk away scott free when an innocent woman's last words were helped me dad? words were, help me dad?

cooks limit conclude with a couple of personal notes. is your codename blueberry? >> that been written about. it wouldn't be a state secret to say yes. i was told to pick something b.h the b -- with the letter it was legal to work on a blueberry farm in hamilton, jersey at age 12. i learned a lot about teamwork. i no longer have secret service protection. in and women who work in the secret service are unbelievably .rave and humble i'm also happy that my family has a little bit more privacy in that.

it is more unburdened for us. i do what a lot of men and women in this country do. the men and women come first, the household structure comes first. by the time i get to the white has all been cheerful chaos. work out more, sure i used to sleep more, but it is the greatest privilege in my life to be their mother. there are a lot of working moms. and to make sure i am not disappointing before people who matter most to me in this world. that's what a lot of people -- a lot of moms experience.

us to be fully present, physically present, but fully present. i will check myself into saying here i am in the house so they can watch this tv and that tv. the technology is put away and we engage. an only child, my husband is an only child. i feel a great responsibility in raising tomorrow's citizens. i teach them the golden rule and to try to be the bigger person and be forgiving and show mercy, and know they are in perfect children being raised by imperfect parents. and they are also privileged. accessve resources and that most adults in this country lack.

them to seer hypocrisy and narrowmindedness as well. >> have you given thought to how long you will stay in this position? >> i have never given thought to leaving. i'm going to be here for three months, six months, one year. i think public service a calling that's a noble calling. i said the thing that will push is my earlier responsibility to my family. i have elderly relatives who are ailing and rely on me. agese children that are of that are really reliant on me. i will continue to fight for this president and vice presidents agenda no matter where i am, because i really much -- i very much believe in

restoring free market and doing my very small part at this fraught time to help the nation, security and safety, transparency and accountability. i saw a lot of faces and the folks at our rallies. i saw two men -- i saw many at airports and it might every day life. i feel soap pledged to always be part of them. you are always a part of that. i feel we can do well by then. i plan on being here to see through some of the major initiatives. most important life for my families on the outside, i want to repeat what i said a loop -- said a year ago. a liberal commentator had said something and i said, leave him

alone. she's going to have that big job in the white house and raise those for kids. i will say to you know what i said then, nobody ever asks the guys, what about your golf game and your mistress? i don't play golf and i don't have a mistress. i have a lot of extra time other people don't. golf, stilllay don't have a mistress, i plan on staying inside. >> we thank you. >> tonight on c-span, an inside view of the regime in north korea, with stories from defectors, refugees come a u.s. diplomats and others. here's a preview. has been going on beneath the surface over the past five years. have been persecuted without due process.

families were sent to prison camps and nobody knows where they are, whether they are alive or dead. and the former north korean ambassador to unesco were also forced to return back to pyongyang and expelled from the foreign ministry. regime seems to have consolidated its power. are greatusly there and unexpected changes taking place within north korea. contrary to the official policy, the free markets are flourishing. get used to free and capitalist style markets, the

social economic system becomes increasingly forgotten about. the welfare system of north korea has long collapsed and millions of civil servants arm the offices as security forces are dependent on bribes and state investment for their survival. they do not care about state propaganda, but increasingly watch illegally imported south korean movies and dramas. back in 2010, during the arab spring, many experts said it would be impossible to imagine such events taking place in north korea. itse changes however make increasingly possible to think >> watch our entire

spotlight on north korea's regime tonight at eight eastern here on c-span. president trump is spending the holidays with family and friends at his private mar-a-lago resort in florida. earlier this week he met with first responders of the west palm beach fire and rescue. he gave reefer marks regarding the u.s. economy and tax reform legislation. [applause] [applause] [inaudible conversations]