then lynne cheney's book on the life of james madison. and, again, you can't go wrong with some light reading as well. to that's what i'm reading this summer. >> what are you reading this summer? tell us what's on your summer reading list. tweet us, @booktv, post it to our facebook page or send us an e-mail be, booktv@cspan.org. >>> all week watch booktv in prime time. monday at 8:30 p.m. eastern and tuesday through friday at 8, booktv features a wide range of topics including foreign policy, law and legal issues, iran, coverage of book fairs and festivals from across the country and bestsellers from this year. and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us at 202-626-3400, or you can e-mail us at comments@c-span.org. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow be us on twitter. .. the about 2100 employees the. a budget of about $280 million a year operating. about half comes from the city of new york. the largest system. the other half comes from the return on of billion dollars endowment of the

and it was interesting, because he went on -- he, liz cheney and lynne cheney went on a political roundat fox news, no enemy to you called you out in this fashion. and mrs. cheney said of course she did. she said that's what journalists are expected to do. and i really appreciated her saying it. i said on the own show, i'm not an enemy of dick cheney. and i'm not a friend of dick cheney. i'm a journalist who has to ask tough questions. and he came in and answered them. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: you describe yourself as a fair, down the middle journalist. you're between, your show is on between two, i would describe as very conservative, journalists. you're on after bill o'reilly, you're on before sean hannity -- >> o'reilly hates that label. he, i think he's more of a populist. >> seth: he hates a lot of stuff, yeah. [ laughter and applause ] >> he does. he does. my dream is that someday i'll be number one, and not him and he'll write a book called "killing megyn." [ laughter ] >> seth: there you go, that'd be very nice. >> actually he and i are good friends. but yes, he does opi

then my next book i'm recommending is "the israeli solution" by caroline glick and then also lynne cheney's book on the life of james madison. and again you can't go wrong with some light reading as well. so that's what i'm reading this summer. >> what are you reading this summer? tell us what's on your summer reading list, tweet us at the booktv, post it to our facebook page or send us an e-mail, booktv@c-span.org. >> up next on booktv norman finkelstein discusses his newest book, "old wine, broken bottle." it's a critique of ari shavit's best selling book, my promised land. you can watch and talk about his book on a website, booktv.org. mr. finkelstein spoke at red emma's bookstore in baltimore. this is just under two hours. >> well, thank you for inviting me. and i want to use the time that is allotted me, is it fair to say this can go on roughly four in our? okay. i'm not sure who the organizers are. so i want to use the time that's allotted me to try to clarify exactly what's going on. and in this particular case it does require a certain amount of clarity because virtually everything

sure that, whatever technological changes that we make, we never lose sight of the touchstone, as lynne cheney was talking about. >> thank you. this question says, if we get suicide bombers, i believe that people will drastically overreact and make this a police state stop how do we prevent that? -- state. how do we prevent that? >> we are seeing that in ferguson. for a local police to have that kind of authoritative force, you can say, hold on a second, that is overwhelming. i agree. as americans, we have a tendency , as the governor said, summing happens and we overreact. we have a financial crisis in 2008 and we spent one training dollars we do not have. it is our tendency as americans in political discourse to do that. i will say that the greatest asset that we have as americans -- and i will disagree with the governor on this -- is not our intelligence. it is the patriotism and loyalty of the american people. if we lose is because the government creates paranoia and distrust in the american people, that cannot be undone by some sort of super computer. the patriotism that lies in every civ

that for a moment but before i do, let me share with you this photograph because it came up in lynn cheney'semarks. the illegal release of these five jihadist leaders, the guys on the lower band are counterparts. these are not your run of the mill jihadists. these are top combatants. in what i call the war for the free world. turning them loose even to qatar or more broadly which is coming, i believe it is an enormous aid to the enemy. then there is this -- i think you probably picked up on this -- james o'keefe, a character, crossing the rio grande in osama bin laden's get-up. as you know, the insecure border is enabling people who are the real deal to come across, not just children or people seeking employment, but people seeking to take advantage of the opportunity to bring the jihads here. i want to close a little bit with these guys because this is another form of threat that we almost always miss as we focus on the shiny, dangling object of these violent jihadists. they are the scary guys. they are the guys that are actually killing people. there is no question they want our destructio

today is the 50th wedding anniversary of former vice president dick cheney and wife lynn.r daughter liz sent along this picture of the couple back in 1964. happy anniversary. >>> no grapevine tonight. we can start the panel early. first remember the president's red line in syria? how what did not happen when it was crossed affects an even greater threat today. @" [ male announcer ] it's one of the most amazing things we build and it doesn't even fly. we build it in classrooms and exhibit halls, mentoring tomorrow's innovators. we build it raising roofs, preserving habitats and serving america's veterans. every day, thousands of boeing volunteers help make their communities the best they can be. building something better for all of us. ♪ and cialis for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment is right. cialis is also the only daily ed tablet approved to treat symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for ches

mall town life like in casper from cheney's years from 13 on, lived there, went to high school. met lynn chaney, a cheerleader nd baton twirler of some renown. played football athletics in a very important in casper. he may not have been the best team.r on the he wasn't, but he was a determined player and did just fine. he wasn't really political at time. but that wasn't really what you did in casper, wyoming as a teenager. i think a lot of people were surprised when i decided to run to be president of the class. but it wasn't a tough campaign as i remember. just seemed like a good idea at the time. politically was motivated. i enjoyed it. had a good time in high school. friends. great we played football and baseball fished and enjoyed growing -- we didn't think it was a small town. that was a e '50s, small town. we thought of ourselves as the irst or second largest city in wyoming. so we didn't have the small town attitude. but we had all of the benefits growing up in the '50s in america. who knew the people dick cheney in those days would say, you know, i see a future national dent or

former vice president dick cheney and his beautiful wife, lynn, celebrating their golden anniversaryy are in 1964. very sweet. special day. i hope you're spending it with family, and together. and thank you for your dedication to the country. >> 50 years. >> amazing. >> very sweet. >> jedadiah? >> i have an amazing video. a little boy was not happy when he found out his mom was having another baby. check out what he had to say about it. >> i'm pregnant. >> what are you thinking? why have you to get another baby? you just had two. >> you just going to have another brother or sister. that you have to take care of and help take care of. >> smart kid, can we run him for president? >> he is strapped in, in his car seat. >> i love how his sister, at one point they ask what do you think? she looks there and the brother is looking at her like what? >> that is what my brother and sister would say. >> you've got two to take care of. >> i think that that was staged >> you're a cynic. >> you're cynical about everything. >> i'm here to ruin everybody's one more thing. >> a lot of people heard abo

former vice president dick cheney and his beautiful wife lynn today celebrating their golden anniversaryere they are on august 29, 1964. very sweet. special day. i hope you're spending it with family and together. and thank you for your dedication to this country and to each other. >> fifty years. >> that's amazing. >> very sweet. >> okay. well, i have an amazing video for you. a little boy apparently was not happy when he found out that his mom was having another baby. so check out what he had to say about it. >> i'm pregnant. >> what were you thinking? why you have to just get another baby? you just have two. this is exasperating. >> you're just going to have another brother or sister that you have to take care of or help take care of. >> that doesn't make no sense. >> i just like the fact that he said exasperated. >> i know. >> a smart kid, a. can we run him for president? >> by the way, perfectly seat belted in, car seats. i love it. >> i love how his sister next to him at one point later in the video they ask, the mom says what do you think and she's staring into the camera blankly

cheney's life and the things that shaped him. at that point, you could say this is a guy with a pretty limited future. but he came back to casper with , hisncouragement of lynn future spouse. changed his ways. went back to school. started at casper college, ended out at the university of wyoming. pulled himself together. who were now married, went to the university of wisconsin for graduate work. in his case, political science. internshipntially an with a wisconsin congressman that took him to washington, d.c. while he was there, more opportunities of that kind presented themselves, one of which was a chance to work for donald rumsfeld, who was a kind of young, up-and-coming illinois congressman who had been pulled into the mix in this administration at the time. that is where dick cheney first began working at the white house . for donald rumsfeld. they would later be tied together in many different ways with the department of defense. he held a number of jobs in the next in administration, generally working with donald rumsfeld as a kind of assistant to him or second to him. when rumsfeld went off to become an ambassador, he left the white house, probably

and finally, auto years our trivia question for you how long former vice president dick cheney and lovely wife lynn couple were high school sweet hearts two kids and seven grandchildren. congratulations on 50 years. >> ms. massachusetts. >> well, his resume is never ending an award winning trainer of hollywood stunt man for actors like elizabeth taylor and james dean going back many decades. revolutionary horse training technique is said to have inspired another actor robert redford in the horse whisperer. >> i read this article about what you do with people. >> truth is i help horses with people problems. >> joining us on the plaza real life horse whisperer who do you have with you this morning. >> max to the max. >> have you been doing this awful long time. >> i wasn't in the horse business until i was 3. >> until you were 3. >> i won't even say what year that was. >> that would be 1938. >> that's unbelievable. so you you have developed a means of communicating with horses, deeply communicating with horses. >> tucker, i didn't develop it at all. god did. it was already this. i just discovered it.

when i was at the airport lounge in london, the vice president cheney and lynne cheney were in the airport lounge and i went over and spoke a little bit with mrs. cheney and asked her what she was working on and she said she's putting together this book on james madison's life. she was fascinated, and she herself is a fascinating person and just talking a little bit to me about james madison and washington such a compelling character and she highly motivated me to go to pick up her book and look at it. so this summer i'm looking at it. one of my favorite genres for reading, i'm a big, big reader. i always have a book that i'm reading, and one of my favorite genres is biography. it's the best way to learn history. i love the book on john adams, on truman come under its subjects. i have no doubt that this book by james madison will be more of the same. just, the last book i just finished reading was one dealing with the history of the american heiress is a little over 100 just ago that had traveled over to england in search of marrying a duke or a count or a girl. it's a takeoff on down at t

when i was at the airport lounge in london, the vice president, cheney and lynne cheney, were in the airport lounge, and i went over and spoke a little bit with mrs. cheney and asked her what she was working on, and she said she was putting together this book on james madison's life. she was fascinated, and she herself is a fascinating person. and she was talking a little bit to me about james madison and why she found him such a compelling character. and she highly motivated me to be able to pick up her book and look at it. so this summer i'm looking at it. and one of my favorite genres for reading, i'm a big, big reader, i always have a book that i'm reading, and one of my favorite genres is biography. it's the best way to learn history. i love david mccullough's book on john adams, on truman, on various subjects. it's excellent, and i have no doubt that this book by james madison will be more of the same. i just, the last book i just finished reading was one dealing with the history of american hare rests a lit -- herr'ss a little over -- heirs. it's a takeoff on downton abbey. it