sidney blumenthal will find books over here after this presentation. you can get the book at politics and prose tent. i do want to mention the book sale. please if you can and if it's within your means please pot-- buy books at the book tent. this festival is free to all of us, but book sales are important because it helps publishers and convinces them to send their authors to the book festival and we would like to continue to make this festival grow. it's now my great privilege to introduce our speaker, sidney blumenthal was the former assistant and senior advisor to president bill clinton and senior advisory to hillary clinton and began his career as a journalist and has been an national staff reporter for the "washington post". washington editor and staff writer for the new yorker and senior writer for the new republic as well as contributor to many other publications. he has also written several bestsellers, the clinton wars, rise of the counter establishment and the permanent campaign and has worked in television and film was executive producer fo

sidney blumenthal, thanks. as he is leading an investigation which is effective into his campaign? i do not think you can read into president trump's mind. i think he wants this investigation concluded. i do not think he has tried to thwart it but get it behind him. it's a handicap to his presidency. i do not think it is logical to think that that was the goal behind his actions. wouldn't it be better if presidents used it with restraint and it was fairly difficult to do? thinking about it for awhile, have consultations and enquiry? i cannot quite hear you — the sound has got rough. it should be difficult to sack the director of the fbi and not too easy for a president to do that? well, presidents can have anybody that they want as the director of the fbi. it is his decision and i do not think he was praising comey initially, but i think he wanted him to have a chance. face—to—face, he has a reputation for getting along with everybody, and being friends with people. and getting them to do what he wants them to

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then, sidney blumenthal, author of "wrestling with his angels," and at 3:15, sally mark freeman on the jersey brothers. coverage lives all day of the gaithersburg, maryland book fair, starting saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span twos book tv. on "q&a," author and journalist tr reid takes a comparative look at tax systems around the world. >> i went to the world bank and imf and said, who has a good tax system? they said go to new zealand. new zealand followed the fundamental principle of good taxation, which the economists blr.ced to b that means broaden the base to lower the rates. said your salary, that his income, if you are an employer that pays health insurance, that his income to you. if you get free parking at the company, that is worth $20 per month. they text that as income. no deductions. you want to give to charity, we are all for it, but we do not give you a tax break. if you tax everything and give no write-offs, then you can set the rates very low. 8:00 easternht at ." "q&a, speaking at a graduation ceremony for the coast guard cadets, president trump said no politic

sidney blumenthal will find books over here after this presentation.you can get the book at politics and prose tent. i do want to mention the book sale. please if you can

rs and sidney blumenthal author of wrestling with angels." and, a book on the jersey nalhe, a missi offir in the pific and t quest bring him he. watch all d saturday r the gaithersburg book festival on 10:00 a.m. ing at pelosi weighscy in on allegations that president trump gave information to the russian foreign minister during a meeting last week. she also spoke about republican efforts to replace and repeal the affordable care act. forspoke at the center american progress ideas conference. we will also hear from former reagan administration national security adviser susan rice and amy klobuchar. [indiscernible conversation]

at 2:15, sidney blumenthal, author of wrestling with his angels, the political life of abraham lincoln. at 3:15, sally mark freeman on , a missingbrothers naval officer in the pacific and his family's quest to bring him home. watch our all-day coverage of the gaithersburg, maryland book festival saturday at 10:00 a.m. .astern on c-span2's booktv >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are back in open phones. your thoughts on any debates happening around the country, we will go to chris in maryland, a democrat. what is on your mind? reeling from just what the congressman was talking about in regards to public land to was talking about and how we need to exploit public lands as needed to grow our localities economically. i think that is a little shortsighted. it is a clever play of words that he used public land and he talks about how these are lands that are ripe for the taking. it is important to note that whenever he is talking about public lands, he is talking about our national parks and monuments. in north dakota, and in the western states, there are a lot of those areas, said

at 2:15, sidney blumenthal, author of "wrestling with his anthrops." freeman:15, sally mann on the jersey brothers, a missing naval officer in the pacific and hisily's ques to brie. tch live, yover stiv on an 2' book tv. >> during a joint news conference with colombian tossident, juan manuel san president trump discuss the naming of a special investigation. he called the investigation a witchhunt and said he fired the fbi director because he was unpopular with most people. this news conferences half an hour. president trump: thank you very much. it's a great pleasure to welcome president santos to the white house, colombia is one of our closest allies in the hemisphere and today we reaffirm partnership between our two great nations. president santos and i had a very productive meeting and we will continue to work very closely together to bring peace, safety, and prosperity to the hemisphere. perhaps no area is really more important in terms of cooperation than our joint effort to end the terrible drug crimes that plague both of our threat to our societ

at two point 15 p.m., sidney blumenthal. at 3:15, sally freeman on the jersey brothers. watch our live of a coverage of the book festival starting today at 10:00 eastern. next, some of the topics discussed by kevin mccarthy and the minority whip on the house floor as they wrapped up business for the week. the budget process and the status of the health care replacement filter. this is just over 30 minutes. by law, under the budget, the control act, a budget is supposed to be brought to this floor on april 15. the majority leader would quickly observe that neither republicans democrats have met that deadline. however, we are unusually late in the budget process in my view . despite months of promising to return to regular order, we have not yet done so as it relates to the budget. the budget has not been marked up in committee. monday marked the statutory day by which the appropriations committee no longer has to wait to bring bills to the floor of the house, because the majority has failed to meet its obligation to pass a budget on time. again i want to quickly note that

ronald reagan heard biographer, fox news contributor juan williams, former white house aide, sidney blumenthal and many more. first up here is maria olson the author of "not the cleaver family" about the modern family structure. this is a book tv live coverage of the book festival. >> good morning. how is everyone doing? i'm thing any wind born and i am a planning commission in the city as well as a member of the book festival committee. this is our eighth annual book festival and we are so happy to have everyone here. gaithersburg is a wonderful city that probably supports particularities and we are pleased to bring you this fabulous event thanks in part to the general support of our sponsors and volunteers. when you see them, please say thank you. a few announcements for the consideration of everyone here we would like you to silence all devices and if you are tweeting today is ##gbs and we also have a survey we would like your feedback so we can keep making this a better festival every year. ms. olson will be signing books immediately following her presentation. i just bought about five the

ronald reagan heard biographer, fox news contributor juan williams, former white house aide, sidney blumenthal and many more. first up here is maria olson the author of "not the cleaver family" about the modern family structure. this is a book tv live coverage of the book festival. >> good morning.

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at 2:15, sidney blumenthal, author of wrestling with his angels, the political life of abraham lincolnat 3:15, sally mark freeman on , a missingbrothers naval officer in the pacific and his family's quest to bring him home. watch our all-day coverage of the gaithersburg, maryland book festival saturday at 10:00 a.m. .astern on c-span2's booktv >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are back in open phones. your thoughts on any debates happening around the country, we will go to chris

sidney blumenthal, the political life of abraham lincoln 1849 to 1856. and at 3:15, a missing naval officer in the pacific and his family's quest to bring him home. watch our live all day coverage of the book festival starting saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 2's book tv. >>> next, the inspector general for the transportation department gives an update on the federal aviation administration's nextgen projects to modernize and change to a satellite-based air traffic control system. other topics include whether the air traffic control system should be partially private advertised. congressman bill shuster chairs the

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the decisive years 19761980. 2:15, sidney blumenthal, author of wrestling with his angels, political life of abraham lincoln 1849-1846. 3:15 sally freeman on the jersey brothers, a missing naval officer in the pacific and his family's quest to bring him home. watching live all day coverage of the gaithersburg, maryland, book festival. at 10:00 eastern on booktv. join us this weekend for cities tour to trenton, new jersey at the help of comcast partners, booktv and american history tv, feature the history area and literary culture of capital city. at 5:15 on booktv we visit the state library's book collection. >> a printing press was set up in new jersey to print paper money for the colony, the legislature wanted it closed, so they see the printing and at the time they did that they did this book. the first known printed book in new jersey. >> a conversation with william kidder, author of crossroads of the revolution, trenton, 1774-1783. >> washington spent more time in new jersey than any other state, his army spent a lot of time here. the important thing is keep the revolution going

at two point 15 p.m., sidney blumenthal. at 3:15, sally freeman on the jersey brothers. watch our live of a coverage of the book festival starting today at 10:00 eastern. next, some of the topics discussed by kevin mccarthy and the minority whip on t

eastern craig shirley on dragon rising, but if-- decisive years. 2:15 p.m., sidney blumenthal, authorestling with his angels, the political life of abraham lincoln. 3:15 p.m. sally mark freeman on the jersey brothers coming missing naval officer in the pacific and his friend-- family's quest to bring him home. watch live all day coverage of the maryland book festival starting saturday, 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2 book tv. >> this past weekend sender chris murphy held a town hall meeting internet-- connecticut. his constituents asked about health care, trump ties to russia and the justice department criminal said theme guidelines. this is an hour and a half. [applause]. [applause]. >> sitdown. sitdown. thank you, everyone. that's very very nice. i have a massive cold and it that makes me feel better today. i feel more well given the introduction. thank you martin.

this was a woman whose captain sidney blumenthal employed for decades, conspiracy monitor.rldview that she is a force for truth and justice at all of these evil forces are to blame for anything bad that ever happens to her. >> you have to wonder who this does any good for. doesn't do any good for hillary clinton and her reputation and her standing prayer and she doesn't look big in this interview. she looks small print can't help the democrats. there are a lot of people looking backward that the selection with the inquiries into russian meddling but democrats need to look forward to what they stand for and we know that from these special elections, you need to have a positive message and it's not clear what direction democrats are going in. we know that hillary clinton finding fault with everyone except herself for losing the election doesn't help her. >> bret: to the credit of some of the interviewers, they pressed her on a couple issues. the goldman sachs speeches. >> why did you do those? >> why do you have goldman sachs here? they pay us. they paid me. when you are the

at 2:15 pm, sidney blumenthal author of wrestling with his angels, the political life of abraham lincoln. 1849 to 1856. and at 3:15 pm sally mott freeman on the jersey brothers, a naval officer in the pacific in his family's quest to bring him home. watch our live all-day coverage of the gaithersburg maryland book festival starting saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's booktv. quest nest the conversation potential economic implications our proposed tax plans from president trump and house republicans. topics include the corporate tax rate, us competitiveness and federal debt. the event was hosted by the cato institute. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon everybody would i want to welcome you all today i am peter russo, director of affairs at the cato institute. i want to thank you for coming. you are an old briefing of major tax reform in 2017. before we begin if you're watching via c-span for live stream and would like to join the conversation would love to hear from you. please to comments and questions to us and our panel at # cato events. we released a new policy handbo

at 2:15 pm, sidney blumenthal author of wrestling with his angels, the political life of abraham lincoln849 to 1856. and at 3:15 pm sally mott freeman on the jersey brothers, a naval officer in the pacific in his family's quest to bring him home. watch our live all-day coverage of the gaithersburg maryland book festival starting saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's booktv. quest nest the conversation potential economic implications our proposed tax plans from president trump and house republicans. topics include the corporate tax rate, us competitiveness and federal debt. the event was hosted by the cato institute.

eastern craig shirley on dragon rising, but if-- decisive years. 2:15 p.m., sidney blumenthal, author of wrestling with his angels, the political life of abraham lincoln. 3:15 p.m. sally mark freeman on the jersey brothers coming missing naval officer in the pacific and his friend-- family's quest to bring him home. watch live all day coverage of the maryland book festival starting saturday, 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2 book tv. >> this past weekend sender chris murphy held a town hall meeting internet-- connecticut. his constituents asked about health care, trump ties to russia and the justice department criminal said theme guidelines. this is an hour and a half. [applause]. [applause]. >> sitdown. sitdown. thank you, everyone. that's very very nice. i have a massive cold and it that makes me feel better today. i feel more well given the introduction. thank you martin. i asked what i should say it he said whatever i say make it short. we have a lot to cover and i think he reference to we have, but i want to thank all the folks here at stanford. you do a fantastic job every single da

at 2:15, sidney blumenthal. the political life of abraham lincoln. 1849 to 1856. at 3:15, sally freeman. his family's quest to bring him home. watch our live, all day coverage of the book festival. starting saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on cspan 2's book tv. >> sunday night on afterwards, stuart taylor examines sexual assault processes at america's units. mr. taylor is interviewed by beth, editor and chief of the thashl law journey and medical times. >> what's your general thesis that we're look iing at here? what are we going dob reading about when we open the majors? >> the gist is that there's been a huge myth that's taken root. that there's an epidemic of camera tuss rape. there's a culture of campus rape, where it's encouraged and condoned, even by the administrators, that it's out of control, that it's increasing, that it's worse on campus than off and that it requires completely demolishing all due process in the presumgts of innocence for the accused people 99% of them are male. that's not an accident. this comes from extreme feminists. you know, male hat

blumenthal. sidney will discuss his book. the political life of abraham lincoln. and at 3:15 p.m. we will have the jersey brothers and missing naval officer in the pacific and his family's quest to bring him home. what our live all-day coverage of the book festival starting at c-span2 book tv. discussion about energy and climate issues from the washington journal, this is about 30 minutes. ington journal" continues. north dakota congressman kevin cramer, a republican at our table this money, member of the energy and commerce , here to talk about the paris climate deal, which will come up on president trump's trip overseas, which begins today. you wrote in the wall street journal, remake the paris climate agreement u.s. energy. you said you were against the paris climate deal but you changed your mind for two reasons. tell us done. newt: first, with a negotiator at the table, i like our chances of having an american first global accord rather than a global forest -- the global first. the fact that we have 195 countries around this table, and they range from developing countries to

blumenthal. sidney will discuss his book. the political life of abraham lincoln. and at 3:15 p.m. we will have the jersey brothers and missing naval officer in the pacific and his family's quest to bring him home. what our live all-day coverage of the book festival starting at c-span2 book tv. discussion about energy and climate issues from the washington journal, this is about 30 minutes. ington journal" continues. north dakota congressman kevin cramer, a republican

sidney blumenthal, the political life of abraham lincoln 1849 to 1856. and at 3:15, a missing naval officer in the pacific and his family's quest to bring him home. watch our live all day coverage of the book festival starting saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 2's book tv. >>> next, the inspector general for the transportation department gives an update on the federal aviation administration's nextgen projects to modernize and change to a satellite-based air traffic control system. other topics include whether the air traffic control system should be partially private advertised. congressman bill shuster chairs the committee. >> the committee will come to order. i now recognize mr. lobe and doe for a motion. >> pursuant to rule 1 a 1 of the rules committee on transportation infrastructure, i move that the chairman be authorized to declare recess during today's hearing. >> the questions on the motion all those in favor signify with saying aye. >> aye. >> all those significant ny by nay neigh. the ayes have tantd motion it agreed to. i want to thank

president bill clinton sidney blumenthal releases the second volume of his biography of abraham lin son, wrestling with his angel. be -- lincoln. and william hoagland recounts the founding of the u.s. army in autism of the black snake -- autumn of the black snake. time magazine's jeffrey kluger reports on nasa's attempt to reach the moon in apollo 8. and in the flight, dan hampton recalls charles lindbergh's 1927 transatlantic flight. look for these titles in bookstores this week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> when adolf hitler came to power in january 1933, 55% of the germans had never voted for him. he was dropped into office by a coalition of powerful people who thought they could use him. he had received -- and they wanted to use him because he had received more votes than anyone else but never a majority of the votes. and this is an important point to make because when we try to explain why germany became the place where the holocaust was perpetrated, where the actors came from, the events that succeed 1933 are much more important than the eve

sidney blumenthal, the political life of abraham lincoln 1849 to 1856. 3:15 p.m. sally mauch freeman on the jersey brothers, a missing a blockbuster in the pacific and his family quest to bring him home. watcher live all-day coverage of the maryland book festival starting today at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span twos book tv. >> this morning i want to begin by introducing you to someone from our book and that is kim power bridges. kim owns and operates bridges funeral home in tennessee, but she is not from tennessee. kim is actually from oklahoma. she started her first business there, but she had to leave oklahoma when she ran afoul of the law. turns out that kim was engaged in a very dangerous practice of selling caskets without a funeral directors license. before that in the early 1980s kim was on the executive fasttrack growing up in a family of hard-working people to learned the relationship between hard-working success and after she left college she enjoyed a lot of success in a number of different businesses and eventually she ended up at one of the nations lar