and joe rubin, reporter. thank you for joining us today.captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> coming up later today on c- span2, we will continue our series of speeches from the national press club here in washington. today, we feature billie jean king. he talks about exercise and childhood obesity. 6:00 p.m. eastern. an hour later, q&a with the editor in chief of reason.com. 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. sunday, look for our q&a interview. and new release called "killerl -- hitlerland." >> despite all the time i spend in germany, i did not spend a lot of time thinking about what it would have been like to have been a correspondent there in the 1920's and 1930's. how would you have operated? what would you have noticed or not noticed? much less, how would you have acted? >> sunday at 8:00 p.m. on a q&a. >> the library of congress has a new exhibit called books that should america. 88 books were selected by the library for their influence on america and american cul

and ask joe rubin and joe boyd more people die from coal and nuclear.consider the particular, the pollution, the disease, is much more dangerous. people buy in coal mines and a nuclear power plant. isn't that much more dangerous environmentally than nuclear? jim? >> that's a very interesting question. and you're going to get into a debate about whether chernobyl, whether the data has ever been totally proven about how many people were affected by and will ultimately die because of their exposure. we won't know for years what happened in fukushima and how people will be affected. we certainly know how the economy is going to affect it and whether they will make a piece of real estate. i don't agree that there is danger in every type of activity engaged in we'd save coal mining and so on and so forth and i certainly not pro coal unless it can be made as safe and clean as natural gas or something else that we have said was -- that's what we want in california something that burns as a natural gas and a power plant then we will think about or remember effic