print press in the lincoln era -- is the all news stations of 2022 fox on one end of the spectrum msnbother even though they don'tit admit their partisan thy show they're partisan and you know, probably so. they do it. so that's the analog in the lincoln era, i would say every small town up had two newspapers. i heard were you the journal register so he was -- he worked for the democratic newspaper. in lincoln's day and hometown the register was the democratic paper. the state journal was the republican paper. in st. louis the republican was the democratic paper. and the democrat was the republican paper that's a relic of the era, "new york times" was the not only the republican paper from 1851 on it was the closest to into the lincoln administration. the new york tribune was a republican paper but kind of off of lincoln's beat on occasion. quick and material. so the difference is -- from today's precinct papers which allege to be nonpartisan is that the precinct press was openly partisan every small medium and large had at least and i'm leaving out the whig era democrat and republican

is a veteran washington journalist a washington bureau chief and an analyst for msnb msnbc, the author of three "new york times" bestseller including showdown. michael is the investigative journalist working for "the washington post" "newsweek" and nbc news the author of two "new york times" bestsellers rncovering clinton so there we send book russian roulette , with the election of donald trump tells the incredible account how american democracy was hacked by moscow as part of a cohort operation to influence the us election to help donald trump gain the presidency we let the authors tell it all so please help me again to welcome our guests. [applause] . >>. >> think you. this is an awesome crowd i guess the issue surrounding trump and russia holds the public interes interest. there is a lot to unpack that we write about in the book that we anticipated the events you have seen unfold over the last couple of years. but i want to start talk about recent events. obviously we are all on pins and needles to see how the robert mueller investigation will read its grand conclusion. there are a

they're don't get on msnb where hc all the -- on msnbc all the time but they're out there. >> i'm very aware that i want to leave 15 minutes for a conversation with the audience. but i want to end by putting one more thought out there, and it goes back again to barack obama's speech, and the way in which he really did address this penal. at the end of the speech he said, i -- he wanted to leave us with a sense of hope, and he wanted to talk about the extent to which he does think we are making progress, and that things are changing and that he described looking to his daughters and the way in which his daughters encounter race, and saying that they are different than what he experienced. now, that was one of those moments when i thought about not necessarily the privatization of the question of race and dealing with it, but institutions. churches. education. the media. and since all of us are involved, deeply involved in each of those institutions, i want to end with a question of, what is the role of the law, of the academy, of the media, of social movement, of churches, in intervenin

at numerous writer festivals events and appeared on numerous national tv stations including cnbc, msnb various tv and documentary show now my couple of comengts. this book with the result, a significant amount of research at the truman library, we have a archive we've got 15 million documents and photographs there a cracker jack ark of all research team and he's very complimentary of the truman library if you get the book please look at the acknowledgements and read comments. we lot of all of the credit and all of the praise that we can get. we're grateful to aj for doing that. and then i really like the dedication that he put into this book. and for those of us and truman business and for those of us who have photographs of portrait of harriet truman in our officer resonate and dedicated to his book as following to david j. baim my father who kept a portrait of harriet truman on office wall for more than 40 rears i think is a wonderful testament to our president that we love so much. so that is it for me. please join me in welcomeing aj baim to the podium to talk about our favorite pr

she's joined by journalist david, previous he worked as msnb as writer/producer and over the last 20years writing book. i hope that's correct. he will correct me later. reports from the far right on mainstream society. serves as editor for the political blog and crossing the dark side of the american border when 2014 latino book. the power worshiper inside rise. please welcome me katherine stewart. >> thanks so much. thanks to town hall. i hope everyone watching from home is safe and healthy. i don't need to tell anyone here that pandemic is a historic tragedy and at a time like this it would be great to have national leaders that bring us together in evidence-base face and without collaborative favoritism. unfortunately -- i won't belabor the point. we all know by now two things. we know what kind of person donald trump is and when know that he wouldn't be where he is today with the support of many people call the christian right but i often like to call christian nationalism. so here is the one thought i want to put forward on trump and religious nationalist supporters, this is sto

. >> and tucker carlson hosted on msnb, carlson country, i think it was-- >> liberal media.i love it. and you don't give up on facebook, you say that the left needs to be better pushing out messages on facebook. but highlight on the top posts on facebook they're overwhelmingly republican sort of -- and do you think that-- you clearly think that's baked into the algorithm. do you think that the left could counter that? you sort of highlight that outrage and anger, we can use, too, and do you think that our base will share those messages or do you think that the algorithm at facebook is just so skewed, and we've got to fix that. >> algorithm respond to the input. right now the right wing content pumped into the algorithm is greater than the left wing content. there are more right wing pages followed by more people pushing out content. i don't know that-- we're not necessarily going to very quickly, you know, close that gap, but there is room. what we have to do is find ways to have messages that are consistent with our political variants and they go viral on facebook. that's v

if it was reinstated the first one to go would be msnb dr. and fox news. they're not but pure propaganda. you can figure boat your fake news if you re-instate the fairness doctrine. >> guest: unfortunately somebody -- a lot of these rules and laws sound great but someone had toes a mr. the fairness doctrine and that is the government. didn't really quite work out as planned. i do think we are facing a crisis in free speech right now. the left has control of the mainstream media. hollywood, wall street. silicon valley. the schools. k through 12, in the universities. the one place you go to get the fact are tiny little corners of the internet. and what are they doing? owl the social media company us, no -- if i war advising the resistance i'd say you have to shut down little gamer gate buoys on twitter because that's a huge threat. >> host: how do you feel but fox news? "the wall street journal" editorar board, the "washington times" sunny don't consume them. i'm nor of an msnbc gal because i'm a hate-watcher but if could just conclude what needs to be done,

also about published this week in the end of white politics, msnb political analyst examines the success and failures of the liberal patrol ticks. ajbowl provide tuesday host of the 1948 election and its importance for america's political course in dewy defeats truman. the 21 biggest lies about donald trump and in lead them eat tweets, an argument that conservatives make populist claims while actually ben feeting the elite. find these titheses this coming week. ... >> my name is ike pulver and i'm incredibly pleased to be hosting the book festival event. i would rather be doing so in person at a different time but i'mhr

this year's festival features msnb katy and charles.military historian max booth investigative journalist david k. johnson and many other authors later in march the virginia festival of book in charlottesville. and then national black writers conference in brooklyn, new york. in april, we're headed to texas for the san antonio book festival and will be live once again at the los angeles times festival of books. for more information about upcoming book fairs and festivals, and to watch previous festival coverage click the book fairs tab it on our website, booktv.org. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2 television for serious readers. here's our prime time lineup, first up tonight emily prfortds a history of marijuana in the united states. at 7:45 rolling stones jeff reports on the rise of sea levels in changing coastlines then at nine ronan talks israel use of targeted assassination and booktv afterwards program at 10 former u.s. trade negotiator and senior democratic senate stacher ira shapiro argues the u.s. senate has lost its politi

barack obama through the lens of former chief white house photographer pete, and playing with fire msnb has the presidential election, and former democratic national committee chair donna brazil reflectings on russian hacking of the dnc and the 2016 election in hacks. also being published this week in 8 seconds of courage captain goldberg recalls military career from his childhood in pairs to being awarded congressional melds of honor in 2015 first immigrant to receive the honor since the vietnam war. in president mckinley historian looks at legacy of the 25th president. former cbs news anchor dan shares his thoughts on patriotism in -- what unites us, and in when the world seemed us in, jeffrey pink l exams president george bush initiative at the start of the post cold war world look for titles in book sthoars coming week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span 2. does anyone else have an experience they would want to share tyrone asks about the medication and deflect and conversation turns to drugs and alcohol when tyrone instead begins talking about g

the open practice before open practice and then a show on msnb, right before the invasion, and was dumped it was the 58 -- 8:00 slot, and we got a memo, we won't have an antiwar face on flagship show when the other networks are waving the american flag. i think that expressing that view, having guests on that dare to speak out against war, is patriotic. but the documentary about thomas, and thomas was deciding whether to take his own life, and he says he cannot deal with the pain. he feels the veterans administration has failed him. he is in terrible pain. he had a tremendous world to live but the pain has work him down and many soldiers find themselves in the situation. the horrific number of suicides of soldiers coming home from iraq and afghanistan, almost one day, and you put that together with all the veterans of the united states -- i still find this hard to believe -- 18 people a day, but thomas yonk has announced he will take his own life in the next few months. i said there is anything that would deter you from this? what if you could deal with the pain? and he said, that would b

cellphone and got interrupted by a phone by a bottom from delaware that i knew and she said i heard on msnb that treasury sent out $1.4 billion to dead people. why don't you do something about it? we've been talking about, thinking about doing something about it for a long time -- a long time. and we're still talking about doing something about it. and i think the time has come to do something about it. and that's sort of where we are at this point in time. and i -- i understand that it's being discussed off the floor for a little bit. maybe one of our colleagues has an objection to this bill, the consideration of this bill and unanimous consent. it ain't like -- it's been out there for people to raise objections and raise concerns, they've had seven years to do that. and for seven years g.a.o. said please fix this part of the mispayment program. it doesn't fix $150 billion, but it is a good start. i don't know anybody in their right mind who would say we should deny to send checks to folks who are deceased. it didn't make sense in 2013 when it was presented to g.a.o., it doesn't make sense

msnb reed and columnist were among the participants for the event, from the brookings institution and the public religion research institute. it's an hour and 40 minutes ding from their annual american values survey. that event expected to get underway shortly. live coverage here on c-span. >> i want to welcome everyone here today and everyone who watches or hears this. this is a very exciting day for us. this is the 15th joint effort by brookings and prri, cooperating on prri's extraordinary annual survey. 15 years is a long time for an institutional marriage. robbie jones of prri said we are way past the seven year itch and this is been a fruitful partnership for my colleagues and i. it has been a wonderful partnership. we have learned a lot from robbie, from melissa who is the ceo at prri. we are grateful to be here. some of you may have read columns lately by ezra klein in new york times and my colleague jean robinson in the washington post and also our friend and colleague elaine said stop reading polls, stop doom scrolling. after this event you can stop reading polls. not just b

the washington post and msnb share collection of obama speeches in we are the change we seek. verÓnica, shares legacy of first lady michelle obama in the meaning of michelle. richard, president of the u.s. counsel and foreign relations makes argument for global operating system in a world in disarray. also being published john, fair well address impacts politics today in washington's fair well. university of pennsylvania professor lisa challenges the american banking system and how its negatively impacted. william keller examines the financial and social cost on the war on terrorism on democracy betrayed. and med -- mediterranean, look for these authors and other authors on c-span2. >> hello, everyone, welcome to the conversation, my guest this