. >> these are not especially happy days for budget director david stockman.ber issue of the atlantic monthly has a long article about stockman in which he's quoted as saying things he no doubtedly wished he had not said. >> i got an early copy. i couldn't believe it. the president gave a news conference that day. i kept waving my hand. he didn't call on me. so i chased him out. >> your budget director more or less says with the economic program is wrong. it creates inflationary -- >> he had no idea what i was talking about, clearly. so i broke the story that night that the budget director blew the whistle on this plan. >> what he still contends were off the record conversations, stockman expressed disillusion. stockman refers to naive supply siders. the whole reagan plan is premised on faith. none of us understands what's going on with all these numbers. >> it was very, very damaging. a lot of people wanted him fired, but i thought we had to keep him because he knew more about the budget than anybody. so i prevailed upon the president to not fire him. >> we h

about half of davis stockman's book called "trumped" so i've got several things i'm either reading or just finished reading. >> book tv wants to know what your reading. send us your reading list via twitted, or facebook. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> we haven't had a long history of police brutality and violence and pleasured in the country. >> los angeles was founded by a racial fantasy, the idea of creating -- exclusive community on native lands. >> colonialism. >> constant projects of native elimination and of keeping outsiders out of this mythical community. native people, poor, white itinerant many, chinese immigrants, a series of new laws such as criminalizing illegal spray. this fantasy -- >> surveillance, ... .... >> we act like we haven't had a long history of violence and murders in this country. los angeles was founded by a racial fantasy that the idea of creating idyllic white, reproductive, exclusive communities on the land. kelly hernandez is the author. what is your goal with this book? >> that is a good question. los angeles is the largest priso

and then reading -- i've read about half of davis stockman's book called "trumped" so i've got several things i'm either reading or just finished reading. >> book tv wants to know what your reading. send us your reading list via twitted, or facebook. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> we haven't had a long history of police brutality and violence and pleasured in the country. >> los angeles was founded by a racial fantasy, the idea of creating -- exclusive community on native lands. >> colonialism. >> constant projects of native elimination and of keeping