mr. alexander: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee lex i've been listening carefully to my friends on the other side of the aisle. zika is tewellly an epidemic. it's -- is truly an epidemic. it's terrifying young families all across the country who worry their babies might be born with a birth defect. we're working hard to fund a creation of a vaccine and the center for disease control tells us that that's likely to happen in the next year and a half. but it takes a certain amount of creativity, mr. president, for the democrat senators to come to the floor and complain about not doing our job on zika funding when three separate times the majority leader and republicans have offered $1.1 billion in funding for zika and the democratic senators have refused to allow a vote. let me say that again. republican senators have offered $1.1 billion in funding for zika early in the summer, at a time when mosquitoes are flying, and the democratic senators have said no, you can't even vo

mrs. alexander is also a reader. >> guest: big time. she loves to read. she -- we went to a discussion where and lives in nashville and she was talking about the best books which she had done for parade magazine. as she went through them i found my wife knew almost every one of them. i knew very few of them. >> host: senator lamar alexander, former former governor, former university president. we appreciate your time a book to be. >> guest: thank you. >> here's a look at authors recently featured on book tvs, afterwards. our weekly author interview program. former attorney general. former attorney general alberto gonzales recalled his time serving in the justice department and is right house counsel in the george w. bush administration. georgetown university law professor, rosa brooks described the expanded role of the u.s. military around the world. ann coulter made her case of supporting donald trump or president. in the coming weeks on afterwards representative david bratt will discuss his time in congress and the economic challenges facing the country

mr. alexander, how long were you sort of in a relationship with the defendant? >> about september to december. >> judge judy: of what year? >> 2012. >> judge judy: okay. ms. sundeen says in her counterclaim that at some point during this relationship, which was brief, she made a loan to you in the amount of $1,500, a loan which you did not repay.

mrs. alexander is also a reader. >> big time. she loves to read. we went to a discussion recently and she was talking about her list of the best which she had done for parade magazine and as she went through them i knewin every one of them. >> senator lamar alexander and former university president, appreciate your time on book tv. >> good afternoon everyone. i am a member of the archive staff at the franklin roosevelt museum and on behalf of the museum i would like to welcome you to the 2016 reading festival. franklin roosevelt planned for the library to become the institution for the studying of the entire roosevelt era that's one of the busiest of all into this year's group of authors reflects the wide variety of research done. if you love the reading festival and want to support this and other programs do i encourage you to become a member and please consider us for the programming later this month. you can learn more about the membership at fdr library.org. let me go over the format for the festival's concurrent sessions. then the authors will

mr. alexander: mr. president? i see other senators on the floor who wish to speak, and i will let them do that. maybe senator casey wishes to conclude. i look forward to working with senator sanders. he and i have some different points of view, which i guess i. and we could talk about drug companies. talk about the fact that one drug company spent $3 billion on alzheimer's. is about to be able to offer to the american people and to the world a way to -- for the first time really to prevent the progression of alzheimer's, we hope. these are public information that's in clinical trials. another one is about to offer medicine that may actually identify alzheimer's before the symptoms are shown, which would be terrifically important in terms of the grief that we will avoid for americans and the costs, and the costs that that terrible disease is causing. but that's $3 billion spent without any -- quote -- profit yet. that's what a marketplace does. that's what happens. in marketplaces, there can be abuses. my point of

mr. alexander: mr. president, the americans i talk with, they're tired of obamacare rhetoric. they are worried about the obamacare reality. and what is the reality today? the reality is that obamacare is unraveling at an alarming rate. there appears fob a very real danger that without structural dangers there may be entire states with no insurer willing to sell plans on their obamacare exchanges in 2018. we're talking here about 10.8 million americans who buy health insurance for themselves or their families on the obamacare exchanges created in each state as a result of the law passed in 2010. and what we're saying is that there are whole states where these 10.8 million americans may have no options to purchase health care with obamacare subsidies. this unraveling is happening sooner than anyone thought and will require us to act both in the short term and in the long term. if we don't take action in the short term, many americans will have fewer options and no relief from skyrocketing premium costs. if we don't take actions to address the longer-term structural failure of ob

mr. alexander: mr. president, senate offices have been hearing about something called the overtime rule on a daily basis. we're hearing about it from colleges, from universities, from boy scout troops, from church camps, from other nonprofit, from employers, from employees who don't like to be suddenly considered employees who punch a time card. and today i would like to talk about action that congress could take to change the effect of the overtime rule that the administration has proposed that will go into effect in december unless we do something. yesterday in this body, the senator from oklahoma, senator lankford and the senator from maine, senator collins, introduced legislation that would delay for six months the implementation of the rule. i cosponsored that legislation and i fully support it. and yesterday the house of representatives passed that same bill, a bill with that same language which would delay for six months the implementation of the rule. that would be my preferred solution, but tod

alexander from tennessee. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. isakson: mr. president, this is somewhat of an unorthodox way of asking for a u.c., but we're going to go through a process here this afternoon talking about a bill called the pediatric rare disease priority review act which expires on september 30 of this year. all of us of the names i just mentioned have a stake in this particular debate. and i am going to lead it off. then i am going to defer to my friend and coauthor of this legislation, mr. casey, for the purposes of the u.c. legislation and then we'll go from there. mr. president, i fell in love with my wife in 1968, married her 48 years ago, and we've had a great marriage, but in 2004 i fell in love with alexa rohrbach, on the chart you can see here. she came to washington lobbying us to try to accelerate research into rare diseases for children, try to find cures for them. i got interested and i went to the pittsburgh, pennsylvania, children's hospital where senator casey is so active. i'm active in children's health care of atlanta, and i

so articulately tell the story of all of the dimensions of alexander hamilton's life. number three, mr. brookhiser worked with pbs to write and host an innovative documentary called "rediscovering alexander hamilton" in 2011. all of these resources created a foundation from years ago that resu resulted in great scholarship and content of much renown. they have become the core resource material this year, you may have heard, the support of the gilda institute, along with rockefeller foundation, and the hamilton musical all came together to serve 20,000 students to see that over 18 months in matinees. that rich content was because of the work of mr. brookhiser over many years. this quite hamilton legacy, mr. brookhiser. because of the original continued efforts to share alexander hamilton's story, richard brookhiser is very deserving as the first recipient of the hamilton legacy award. which reads, richard brookhiser is presented with the award for dedication to educating the public about the contributions of alexander hamilton to the united states of america. the alexander hamilton awar

back and d get a laugh out of this.hi >> reporter: ward seven warseve council member yvette mr yvet alexanderidn't think it wasnkt funny when she drove by. b she tweeted out this picturere and message asking d.c.'s.c.'s regulatory agency to check it out. on the phone today she said she didn't want kids to see to e this and wanted to make sure sur it was legitimate business buteb had no idea one tweet would cause such a stir. sti >> i was just amazed that id tha mean that couldn't up the phone and say hey, did h you know your sign was outow yos instead of giving all thishi hoopla but yeah on thepla yeah o positive side i'm getting aettig lot of free advertising.dversin. >> reporter: mr. easily says he'll make another over to thett get his lights fixed. his lht lasts time a contractor left with his money.with but some may not like that idea. ea it seems they've come to like the scarlet sign the way it w i is. >> they were telling me, hey,e t you know, weel useling me, it aa landmark. you know, when i tell peoplel where i'm located they can'ty cn find my business they say heyyey where the sex si

mr. alexander: mr. president, i'm here for another reason, but i've been listening to the p distinguished majority whip, the senator from texas. i want to congratulate him on his remarks and make an observation. i was once a republican governor in a state that had a democratic legislature. and if i had gone around the state for the first four years of my term announcing that we couldn't get anything done because the democratic legislature couldn't -- i couldn't work with them, i think about half the people would have said maybe we need another governor. we need someone who has the capacity to work with people and get results. so i have never understood the strategy that exists, i hope temporarily, on the other side of the aisle of telling the american people that the senate can't function. that doesn't bring any respect and credit to this body. it doesn't help the democrats to say that. it doesn't help the republicans. all it does is cause the american people to think that those of us who they elect are

he starts by ridding his cabinet of alexander hamilton's influence. >> mr.ed to see me? >> mr. mchenry, yes. [ clears throat ] i know that you are merely the pawn of alexander hamilton, a man devoid of every moral principle. and to think i was saddled with you and the rest of his creatures as my cabinet! now leave! >> adams finally takes charge of his administration, dismantling hamilton's army and pursuing peace with france. but it may already be too late. jefferson has the southern states locked down. but to win decisively, he needs a northern state, as well. jefferson targets new york and an influential former senator named aaron burr. >> aaron burr had a lot of allies in the state legislature. he had a lot of friends in new york city. if jefferson could get aaron burr and his new york friends on his side, aaron burr might well be his ticket to winning the election. >> once we fought to rid ourselves of unjust taxes and tyranny! now we have a president who levies taxes for a federalist army! is this not tyranny?! >> yes! >> but we have the means to defeat

alexander hamilton. i felt so bad for lester hotel. -- holt. he tried so hard but mr. trump wouldn't let him do anything. >> mr. trump we're talking about the burden americans have to pay. you have not released your tation returns and the reason nominees have released their returns for decades is that voters will know if their potential president owes money to who he owes it to and any business conflict. >> i will release them as soon as the audit. look, i've been under audit almost for 15 years. i get audited almost every year. in a way, i should be campaigning. i'm not even campaigning. i don't mind it. >> tevor: you just complain. i should be complaining but i'm not complaining. let me tell you how much how bad this is, i shouldn't be telling you about this but i'm telling you about this. i should be shouting at you right now but i'm not donald trump. the best part halfway through he just gave up making excuses about his taxes and he switched. he became honest and he became proud of it. >> he doesn't want the american people. all of you watching tonight, to know tha

mr. scott possessed was loaded at the time of his encounter with officers. cedric alexander, to you. paul callen is saying, look, the legal line is clear here, you will not get a grand jury to indict if he had a loaded gun in his hand regardless of whether it was pointed to officers or not. you say to that? >> i say that paul callen articulated pretty much based on the law in all 50 states, that's exactly what the issue is going to be. we have a bigger problem here again. is there something maybe we can learn from this? but the problem is, quite frankly, pointledly, there's a distrust issue in this country between police and community. no matter what had occurred out there that day, that police department, any police department is going to come up under this type of scrutiny. so we have a lot of work yet to do, and i think the best thing we can do in this case is allow for all of this information to come together, and during an investigation so that we can clearly see exactly what happens at the end of it. but all we're going to see as we show these videos is piecemeal of what occurr

alexander. van jones. and laura coates. david, in in video that the family of mr.tt released we don't see the actual shots or even a gun with this cell phone video. for the first time we are able to hear the officers repeatedly saying put down the gun. you hear them shouting about dropping the gun. it is important to note that a loaded gun was according to police recovered from the scene. what do you see in this video? what stands out to you? because the wife also saying she does not have a gun in this video? >> the start out with the wife's statement. that is really irrelevant to the police officers in terms of what they are seeing if they are seeing something different if they are lvr already determined he's got a gun by seeing one. what she says they have got better information. another situation perhaps where the officers don't know what's going on they can't see his hands and she's saying he doesn't have a gun that is something they have to put into the thought cycle. one other thing that really struck me was the amount of time that passed between when the vid

alexander. van jones and form federal prosecutor lauren coats. in the video that the family of mr. scott has released we don't see the actual shots or even a gun with the cell phone video. for the first time we are able to hear the officer saying put down the gun. it is important to know a loaded gun was recovered from the scene. what do you see in this video? what stands out to you? the wife is saying he doesn't have a gun? what struck me is the amount of time between when the video started and shots were fired and as your reporter mentioned the multiple commands to drop the gun. this wasn't one of those situations that happened rapidly. this was one that took a little time to build up. another thing that is interesting to me, that i don't quite understand yet, is how it is that the suspect traversed the area from the vehicle that he was apparently sitting in to the point where he fell. so, that took a few seconds. we don't really know what was going on at that point because as you noted earlier the camera had been jostled. it is difficult to assess. what i would say there are a h

the idea of alexander hamilton downtown, the hamilton of europe right now on my right is mr.s the case, we are in deep trouble. tom: expand on that. if the we in trouble federalists of europe get their way? luigi: i do think there's a desire to put in common the debt. theright or wrong, putting, debt of the states. i was taken to fight the common war. in that sense, there was justification. today, there's no case in europe to consolidate the debt of different states. but most importantly, there is no case to move forward in the political game. " europe needs more than anything else is a president of europe. and respond to all countries, not just the biggest ones. tom: luigi zingales. much more talk about this morning. linda me do a day to check into the break, if i could. andeuropean data check francine is really focused on higher short-term rate. in china. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: wednesday, our special coverage of the bank of japan. francine and i will have that before you -- have that for you before the fed meeting. strongeris a churn, yen, the mexican peso takes a break

mr. easily can't help chucking over the stir his sign out front has caused lately.y. >> we deserve a laugh today. sit back and get a ward seven council member yvette alexanderdidn't think it was fop any she drove by. she tweeted outfop this pictured message asking d.c. regulatory to check it out. she said she didn't want kids to see this and wanted to make sure it was a legitimate business,es, but had no idea would cause sucs a stir. i was just amazed that yvette couldn't just pick up the phone and say, did you know your signr was out instead of giving allng this. on the positive side i'm getting a lot of freetism. mr. easily says he'll make another effortl to get his lighs fixed. last time a contractor left witt his money. but some may not like that idea. it seems they've come to like the scarlett sign the way it is. they're telling me we use it as a landmark. when i tell people where myeopl business is, i said where is the sex sign? > people have been on this sign for several years. we went to instagram and we typed in hashtag, sex barberb shop and over the last couple of years there have been 31 31 instagram posts. >> the owner says he's thinking about g

alexander, to you. what is the most glaring thing missing from these slid yvideos that you cannot see? obviously you can't see what is in -- if anything, is in mrs hand. >> well, that's going to be the most glaring piece, is that none of the video show a gun in his hand. but, of course, there's clear evidence to suggest that he was in possession of a firearm based on the science. >> right. >> which included his dna and fingerprints. >> but let me ask you this, because -- >> yeah. >>-understood, and that's what the police said, the gun at the scene was loaded and had his fingerprints and dna. they released these three photographs, and i think we can pull them up for our viewers, and one of them is an ankle holster. if the gun remained in the ankle holster and the gun was not drawn or in mr. scott's hands, cedric, how does it change things when it comes to the police response to him and the use of deadly force? >> well, you know, poppy, that's -- that we don't know because we don't know how detailed -- when officers say they saw him pick up the again inside the vehicle when he was he smoking a joint -- >> right. >> -- what was he doing with the g

mrs. thurgood marshal met eleanor roosevelt and heard in a post-script, i heard dr. king speak at madison square garden. >> alexander hamilton wrote a letter to his wife. >> that was something. so the next letter that -- this one, she really -- the lady who brought it up barely could sleep, she had, knowing that was there. this was the letter he wrote to his wife a feud before what he called the "interview." he didn't want to but he said he had to go. >> isn't this so weird? weren't most of the letters to aliza burned them. >> these were better. >> were they better? >> these were better. these are the types of things that they could expect and what i'm concerned about is putting a lot of these things online so a kid anywhere. of congress? >> wouldn't that be something? i have a few years to work with a crackerjack staff. >> you seem to be a different kind of librarians. no disrespect, most people think librarians are uptight and stuffy and wear uncomfortable shoes. >> i do have uncomfortable shoes. >> but you want to change the whole face, do you not? >> when people think of librarians, like in commercials if you wa

mr. spoke. >> live long and prosper. [ laughter ] >> special thank you to my wonderful producers and crew, ariel shapiro, lorna ruiz, expa zander price and rob alexanderar trek" goodness, let me see if you're a klingon. >> oh, no, no -- >> if they like you, you're not. is it cooing? i think one of them is out of sorts. maybe we could put them a sedative, put them to bed. down, klingons! what "star trek" do you like? >> i like the original series best. my father and i growing up, we used to watch the old reruns on channel 43 back in cleveland. and what i saw there was a future with me in it. >> yeah. >> you know, there was a future with uhura, but not just her, but other people of color, all shapes, sizes, religions, creeds, all working towards a common goal in the future. >> yeah, george tackay was there. you had just this incredible panoply, not only of different races, but different species from all these intergalactic planets all working together in sort of commune toward peace and everything. it was a great series, but do you think it was groundbreaking because of the interracial aspect of it or because it wasn't even remarked on? >> it wasn't jus

alexander butterfield we talked about watergate as well. so in case that is a topic that is of interest to any mention evan thomas booked, mr. thomas was here last year to talk about his book at the national book festival. you can watch that online at our website, at book tv.org. thought.org. thought the commercials here this time. mary is in pennsylvania, what are you reading? >> actually i have just started the boys in the boat so i'm not very far along in it. but i love c-span, and i love the show but i have a question and that is, why do you not ever have any fiction writing? >> do you think we should have fiction on? >> will i would like it because i love fiction and nonfiction. i'm just wondering what your reason is for not having it. >> what you think your reasoning is? >> not a criticism. >> when you think our reasoning is the? >> i don't know. >> okay, we are part of c-span. c-span covers public affairs, nonfiction issues, washington, public policy and things like that. so book tv as part of c-span, we try to cover the same thing. as you well know if you do watch book tv, there is lots and lots of nonfiction books a