where i want to go i enjoyed the lincoln books because there are several different authors, stephen mansfield who is one of my favorite, different people had written on lincoln so you can get that wide view. and we will see who i end up reading this year. i am going to read woodward's book on the road to the white house. i think that will, it's timely, think that one is a good one to read. >> and if anyone heard those bows we are in marsha blackburn's office in the house and in those goff from time to time. to indicate that the house is in recess. >> when you find time to read? >> i read on flights, i read in the evenings before i go to sleep, sometimes if i get the time to sit on the back porch i may read a little bit. i really love inspirational reading. in the mornings, that's that's when i do my devotion and bible reading. you cannot beat a cup of coffee on the back porch a breeze is blowing for quiet time to do that, 6:00 a.m. a.m. in the morning with the sun coming up, it's nice. >> for their books in the house when you're growing up? reappearance readers? >> absolutely. even the world

you've got stephen mansfield who is in nashville and contemporary christian world, you've got michael w smith who is there, amy grant, steve buchanan, he's also in the church with us. >> host: there's a big publisher intown named thomas nelson in nashville . >> guest: the southwestern company is also there. they are too often nashville's oldest companies and people many times will say how did printers alley, about? they think it's a bunch of honky-tonk, they don't realize it was actually the back door, the alley off the back door of all printing companies and thomas wilson being one of those and southwestern who started with five and expanded to educational books and i worked with the southwestern company, working my way through college. so i it paid for my tuition. >> host: marsha blackburn, have you ever spoken or been involved with the southern festival of books. >> guest: i have not.i have gone a couple times because i love it. authors in the round or things that bring authors together, those are fabulous. alice randall who has written a couple of bestsellers is a very dear friend

i enjoyed the lincoln books because there were several different authors, stephen mansfield is one of my favorite different people that have written on lincoln so you could get that wide view. and we will see wyandotte reading this year, i am going to read woodward's book on the road to the white house, i think that will, it's timely so i think that's going to be a good one to read. >> host: if anybody heard those bells ring, marsha blackburn's office is in the house and those bells go off from time to time to indicate the floor is closed before the floor is closed and the house is in recess. >> host: is that what that no was quite smart before it was . >> host: where you find time to read? before i write read on flights, i read in the evenings before i go to sleep . sometimes if i get the time to sit on the back porch i may read a little bit. i really love inspirational reading in the mornings, that's when i do my devotions and double reading and you can't beat a couple coffee on the back porch, a breeze blowing for quiet time to do that, six in the morning, some coming up, it's nice

mansfield, ohio, republican. ander: good morning, greta, stephen yates, guest speaker.irst off, i want to say how i love sees ben because they are fair and balanced, and they do not politicize political values at all, like cnn does. and fox news says they are fair and balanced, and most the time they are, but sometimes they are not. but my point is my father was a democrat most of his life u ntil he died to it he would be rolling over in his grave right now to was a christian, a part-time preacher. he went to church twice a week. i do not see god in the democratic party at all, based on their policies and stuff like this. and why are they nailing donald trump? i was a supporter of ted cruz, and i did not care for the way trump treated him on the platform. but everything that donald trump has said, cnn and other news medias twist it to a way it is not, like what he said about into thising banned country. he was speaking of those immigrants from syria that was going to come into this country, and that is always sad. host: let's have steven yates jump him because of his ex